change dashboard address

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  ablaelock · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 6:20 am

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  Hi!

  Because I didn’t understand how it worked, I opened my account with name.com resulting in an address namedotcom,wordpress.com..

  I can’t find any instructions on changing this to name.wordpress.com. Is this possible?

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

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 6:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can change a site address ending in wordpress.com by following the steps here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  Please note that the final step in changing your site address allows you to keep or discard the old address. If you are changing your site address so that you can use the address for a new site, please be sure to keep the old address.

  However, if you have a custom domain, please note that only you can see the url with .wordpress.com at the end of it when you are logged into your Dashboard. All viewers will only see your custom domain:

  alexonlife.com

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  ablaelock · Member · Nov 8, 2014 at 6:52 am

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  Thanks for your answer.

  I performed this task, but this does not change the name from alexonlifedotcom.wordpress.com.

  But if I am the only one that can see this, it doesn’t matter.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Nov 10, 2014 at 5:13 pm

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  Sounds great!

  I can see what went on with the site name change if you want. Let me know what you wanted to change it too!

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  ablaelock · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 2:09 am

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  Thanks Grace

  I wanted to change it from alexonlifedotcom.wordpress.com to alexonlife.wordpress.com. I have purchased the domain alexonlife.com.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Nov 11, 2014 at 6:33 pm

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  Hm, you should be able to change it to alexonlife.wordpress.com as it’s available. If you still want to change this, let me know at which part you get stuck on here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

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  ablaelock · Member · Nov 14, 2014 at 9:14 am

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  Thanks Grace

  I don’t have access to edit my domain at the moment (lost it sometime yesterday). Not sure if it was my end or yours, but I can’t retry.

  Would you please check and see if these issues are related?

  Thanks again

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Nov 14, 2014 at 6:40 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m a bit confused as to the edit domain part that you mentioned. You should be on the My Blogs section of your Dashboard as stated in the support guide. Here is the direct link:

  https://alexonlifedotcom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs

  Please be careful with this change as you wouldn’t be able to reverse the changes. Be sure to read all the warnings.

  I would recommended just leaving the dashboard address as no one can see that except for you, but if you would like to please follow the directions very carefully.

  Cheers!

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  ablaelock · Member · Nov 14, 2014 at 8:52 pm

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  thanks for your reply. I was going through here

  https://wordpress.com/my-domains/

  I will leave it as it is.

  Regards