Change permalink in wordpress.com

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  sandeepsinghspace · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 4:31 pm

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  Is it not possible to change the default permalink for the free version? Also if I decide to opt for premium service after some years then will changing permalink at that time not cause 404 page not found error?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 4:42 pm

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  No it is not possible to change the permalink structure on any wordpress.COM hosted blog. No upgrade can change that.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 4:44 pm

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  Also if I decide to opt for premium service after some years then will changing permalink at that time not cause 404 page not found error?

  All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URLs and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

  Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

  In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

  See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

  After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

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  sandeepsinghspace · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 5:02 pm

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  OK thank you very much. I was concerned because I have seen various posts saying about ‘page not found’ error when they change the permalink setting!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  You’re welcome.