Hello,
I have several WordPress blogs which I would like to shift to operating on a self-hosted basis (largely so I can use a wider range of plugins and to have a bit of redundancy – I’m aware that WordPress’s data centres are fairly robust against physical disaster, but it’s harder to judge how robust WordPress-the-company is against hostile business or political activity).
At the same time, I don’t want old links elsewhere in the Internet to abruptly break. Is it possible to link up a self-hosted WordPress instance (an .org) site and a [Wordpress.com](https://Wordpress.com) blog (the .com site) so that:
\- New articles posted to the .org site automatically go up to the .com site with the same specifications (so if I make a new category for an article that goes up on my .org site, the category gets made on my .com site when the article goes up there)?
\- Comments posted on either site end up on both, to avoid bifurcated conversations and to avoid needing to close comments sections on the .com site?
It occurs to me that if the .org site’s content gets automatically mirrored on the .com site as closely as possible (with only plugins not supported by .com excepted), then I’d also get the benefit of the assiduous .com backup process.
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No, neither of your requests are simple. You should just move everything to .org.
Are you using a custom domain or xxxx.wordpress.com? If it’s the latter, then yes, that’s going to make things more difficult. I believe you can setup a Site Redirect WordPress.com (https://wordpress.com/support/site-redirect/#create-a-site-redirect) but that means you’ll need to pay for a domain upgrade in .com ( create a subdomain off your newly purchased domain name for your .org site)