Change domain name

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  lorcanmitch · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 8:23 am

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  Hello,

  Ive changed my domain name and now I can’t long into my website or access my dashboard.
  can you help me please?

  Thank you

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

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 9:39 am

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  Hello
  You are hosted over at Bluehost – they would be a much better place to ask than WordPress.com.

  I am sorry to say, we are unable to help with things like account access at other providers. We can help with WordPress questions regarding content hosted here at WordPress.COM.

  Very cool product! Where are you located?

  best,
  dave

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 9:29 am

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  Hi there,

  On a self-hosted site, changing the domain in Settings in your WP-Admin dashboard only serves to break your site and lock you out of the dashboard. Bluehost also won’t be able to help you with this, aside from helping you access your cPanel with them from where you should be able to get FTP access to edit your site’s files to fix this.

  For detailed help you’ll need to post over in the WordPress.org forums:

  https://wordpress.org/support/

  You can find the instructions for correctly changing the domain on a WordPress website here:

  https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

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  dave2swords · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 10:01 am

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  @kokkieh – thanks for the .org info – filing away!
  d

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  lorcanmitch · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 10:25 am

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  Hi
  
  @kokkieh @dave2swords

  thank you for your replies. I contacted my hosting site bluehost and they where able to solve my problem.

  thank you both again.

  have a great day

  Lorcan

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 pm

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  That’s great news! Thanks for letting us know.