change blog address & maintain current username

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  tktreks · Member · Jun 9, 2017 at 12:51 am

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  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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  krutidugade · Member · Jun 13, 2017 at 4:01 am

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  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!

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  tktreks · Member · Jun 13, 2017 at 9:07 pm

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  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!

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  krutidugade · Member · Jun 14, 2017 at 2:37 pm

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  @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.

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  tktreks · Member · Jun 14, 2017 at 11:15 pm

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  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!

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  krutidugade · Member · Jun 15, 2017 at 4:32 pm

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