Changing Blog Address Back
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Changed my blog address recently but having second reservations about it and would like to change it back to my previous blog address (which I still kept active). How can I do this?
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You won’t be able to just transfer the site to your old address using the Change Address function you used before, since it will just tell you that that site already exists.
So what you’ll need to do, is export and then import, all the contents from your new site to your old one (providing you kept it active of course). Once you’ve done that you can either make the new site (the one you don’t want) private (which is preferred in case you want it again at some point – Settings -> Reading), or you can permanently delete it meaning you can’t get the URL back ever (Tools ->Delete Site)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
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I am also wondering, when I changed my blog address for the first time to this new one, do all my followers transition over to the new blog address URL or are they only able to access the previous one in which they originally subscribed to?
I haven’t had anyone access my blog in a week (through looking at my stats) and thus would just like to change my blog address to the previous one I had so that my followers are able to access my new (and old posts) if that is the case?
PS Thanks for the above help. It is very handy to know! -
Yes, the followers transition to the new site. Unfortunately, when you change URLs you start from scratch when it comes to search engine ranking.
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