Bought 301 Redirect and it keeps directing to 404 errors instead of post

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  ummhaneefah · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 3:36 am

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  My old blog flavourfull.wordpress.com is supposed to be being directed to press.flavourfull.ca which is an .org hosted site. I paid the mapping fee and it is just going to 404 error pages instead of to the posts. They are not shortlinks they are the full links.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 4:24 am

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  The Permalinks on you new blog do not match the Permalinks on your old blog – so the address does not exist on your new blog –

  Make friends at WordPress.ORG – you have two choices, change the permalinks on your new blog to match your old blog here or put in a Plug-in to do the redirect for you – or you could also mess with your httaccess file and fix the links there

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  ummhaneefah · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 4:40 am

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  So you mean the redirect I bought is essentially worthless and I can get a plugin in to do it from my .org for free?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 4:51 am

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  The redirect is not useless – it is required

  What is wrong is the permalinks on the new blog are all wrong – you changed them to get rid of the date part – you broke all the links when you did that – either change the permalinks back on your new blog (if possible) or get a Plug-in to fix the links you broke

  And make friends at WordPress.ORG – they are the keepers of the software you are now using –

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  ummhaneefah · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 2:08 pm

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  At auxclass. Thank you. All i did was export the files from my .com to my .org. I did not intentionally do anything to any links and I don’t know the first thing about all of this .htm…. I will slowly learn it but I am new.

  Thanks for taking the time. By chance, you wouldn’t know the name of the plug in on .org that you mentioned?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 2:54 pm

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  No I don’t know which Plug-in you should use – there are something like 15,000 of them –

  You need to make friends over at WordPress.ORG they deal with problems like you have every day and should be able to give you the name of a couple of Plug-in’s that will help you. Open an account there if you have not already so you can post in the forum, but there is probably a thread in the last day or two that deals with this that you can read and see what others have done

  Good luck