Can I have two urls for the same website

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  omilaju · Member · Mar 15, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  1. I want to change the name of my website but I want to keep my current url and the new one.

  2. I also would possibly like another website –a community website to be the parent of my current url.

  3. I would like to have a couple of people from my staff of volunteers have access to create pages and posts but not publish them before I give the approval. Is there a possible way to give them limited access to the back end of my site?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 15, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  1. I want to change the name of my website but I want to keep my current url and the new one.

  You can have multiple custom domains point to your site. But only one can be set as the “primary” domain (the one that users will see). So, if an imaginary site had johnsmith.com set as the primary domain, johnsmith.com, alljohnsmith.com and lovejohnsmith.com could all point to johnsmith.wordpress.com, but users would only see johnsmith.com when they visited the site. Does that make sense?

  I also would possibly like another website –a community website to be the parent of my current url.

  You can start a new WodPress.com site. But there are no “parent/child” sites on WordPress.com.

  I would like to have a couple of people from my staff of volunteers have access to create pages and posts but not publish them before I give the approval. Is there a possible way to give them limited access to the back end of my site?

  You probably want to add them in the “contributor” role. See here for more info:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 15, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.

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  omilaju · Member · Mar 17, 2015 at 2:54 pm

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  Thanks for your response Rootjosh. Withing WordPress.com, how do I get my other domain names to point to the primary?

  And, another question, if I switch to wordpress.org software on another host, will I be able to take all that I’ve built with wordpress.com with me?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 17, 2015 at 9:41 pm

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  Just head here:

  https://wordpress.com/domains/

  And register or map your new domain. Whatever you have set as your “primary” domain will be the one that the others point to.

  will I be able to take all that I’ve built with wordpress.com with me?

  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/