Transferring the Data
- Export your content from your wordpress.com blog.
- Install WordPress on your own host. View our detailed setup for doing this the right way.
- Install and Activate your Obox Theme following the Theme Documentation
- On the Create Your Content step, import your wordpress.com content instead of importing our demo content.
Adjusting Your Content
Continue through your theme setup per the documentation, making any necessary changes to your category structure, adding new content, or editing menus.
Next, you may need to edit your posts to adjust how things like featured images and videos display, depending on your WordPress.com theme. Below gives an example of checking content from Gigawatt on WordPress.com and updating it to use the full features of the self-hosted Gigawatt theme.
- Under Posts, edit a post and check the post body for images or video links you intend to use as the featured image or video and remove them
- Add your featured image or video using the standard processes.
- Install the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin(search for it under →, then run it from → . This resets all pre-existing images to fit the new theme specifications.
Special Checklist for Gigawatt
- There is no Showcase page in the full Gigawatt theme. Use the Widget-Driven Home Layout with a Slider and Four Column widget for the same effect.
- There is no Blog page template. Use Categories in your menu instead.
- Video posts must have either an embed code or an oembed url in the post options panel. Featured images are optional.