change blog address & maintain current username

  • Unknown's avatar

    I would like to change my blog address while maintaining my current username. Actually, I’d like it to match my current username, if possible. I couldn’t figure that out through wordpress support. Example, if my username is tktreks and my current blog address is hiking.wordpress.com and I want it to be tktreks.wordpress.com, is there a way to do that? Many thanks! tk

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  • Unknown's avatar

    Hi there,

    You can change your blog address to the one you wish to have, if it’s available.

    Following these instructions to change site address:
    – Go to My Sites>Domains
    – Click on your domain and then Edit Site Address
    – Click on Change Blog Address
    – Type the new domain name you wish to have.

    Refer this documentation:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

    Hope this helps!

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thank you for your response krutidugade. I had reviewed that support documentation that wordpress offered. Further on in that documentation, it suggests there are only 2 options regarding my username:

    1. change my username
    2. set up a new account

    I want to maintain my current username and account but couldn’t determine if there was a third option to be able to do that. Thoughts?

    Thanks!

  • Unknown's avatar

    @tktreks
    Once you change your blog address, you are asked if you want to have username similar to your blog address.
    You get 3 options not 2.
    Either you can change username, set up new account or simply select no.
    -If you select no then only your blog address will be changed.
    -If you choose to change username then old account will be discarded
    -If you create new account with matching username then you’ll have 2 Admin accounts for this blog.

    Let me know if you need more help related to this.

  • Unknown's avatar

    well that worked!!! thank you! when I saw ‘no’ as the third option, I thought it meant ‘no, for a matching username’… when in fact I wanted my username in the blog address.

    thanks so much krutidugade! really appreciate your help!!! … as you may be able to tell, I’m new at this. :) many thanks!

  • Unknown's avatar

    You’re Welcome. Glad to know I could help! :D

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