Adding existing WordPress.com blog

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  iamscottham · Member · Oct 18, 2012 at 4:41 am

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  Hi, I’ve got the domain http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com, but it is not showing in my domains under Store|Domains and when I navigate directly to this site, it is not connected to my actual domain hammockphotography.com or hammockphoto.com. If I try to “Add a Domain”, I get the error “That hostname cannot be added to this blog.”

  Is there a way to connect the wordpress.com site to the actual site?
  Blog url: http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com/

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  jenia · Member · Oct 18, 2012 at 1:46 pm

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  Hi there,

  You have three blogs under your account, one of them is http://hammockphoto.wordpress.com and another is http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com.

  http://hammockphoto.wordpress.com has the domain mapping upgrades associated with it. You can see the domain names mapped to it here: https://hammockphoto.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domains (hammockphoto.com and hammockphotography.com)

  http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com does not have any domain names associated with it. What are your plans with this blog? You can choose to set it to private under Settings > Reading if you don’t intend to use it right away. You can also set up a Site Redirect so that visitors to hammockphotography.wordpress.com are sent to hammockphoto.com. You can purchase the Site Redirect under Store > Upgrades.

  Let me know if you have any further questions!

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  iamscottham · Member · Oct 18, 2012 at 7:26 pm

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  Thanks Jenia. I really don’t intend to use any of the specific names
  http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com
  http://hammockphoto.wordpress.com
  http://hammockphoto.com

  However, I want my primary site to be http://hammockphotography.com and any traffic the remain 3 sites receive to be redirected to this site. In the future, if I decide to let the domain name laps, I still want http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com and http://hammockphoto.wordpress.com to be tied together with http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com being primary.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 18, 2012 at 8:57 pm

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  Ok, there is no way to tied the separate WordPress.com blog URLs together.

  You could choose one to be primary with the domain on it, which you have done. For the rest, you’ll need a Site Redirect upgrade for each: http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

  Alternatively, you could just publish a “we’ve moved” post on the others.

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  iamscottham · Member · Oct 18, 2012 at 9:17 pm

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  Thanks again for all the help. I now that http://hammockphotography.wordpress.com redirected to http://hammockphotography.com. I’m assuming I can’t get all 4 domains to show up on my hammockphotography.com domain dashboard page?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm

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  Yes, because the other WordPress.com URLs are separate blogs, not registered domains.