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  slimshanny · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 8:41 pm

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  Hello,

  I am looking to change my blog address and am just checking to see if it is required for me to purchase a site upgrade to do this in order to keep my old posts and followers?

  Thanks so much,
  Shannon Lang

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 7, 2015 at 2:19 am

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  Are you trying to change it to a custom domain (johnsmith.com) or to another WordPress.com domain (johnsmith.wordpress.com to smithjohn.wordpress.com)?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 7, 2015 at 2:23 am

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  option 1: changing a .wordpress.com blog address (no upgrade required)

  We cannot edit any blog URLs. If you want to change the .wordpress.com blog address ie. the URL starting with http:// then you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to do that and the URL you desire must be available. If so, then you can change the URL by using the guide http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  Be sure to locate the correct page http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dashboard-e1371648470893.png

  Changing a URL is a permanent and irreversible act. No changed or deleted blog URLs are recycled here, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  option 2: purchasing a domain mapping upgrade (annually renewable paid upgrade)

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.