Changing my Blog Address

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  bettercreativewriting · Member · May 15, 2017 at 11:55 am

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  1: I’ve just created a new WordPress Blog

  2: From my Dashboard I went to: WordPress.com Blog Site/Address Change

  3: Then I completed the form…

  My current address is: bettercreativewriting

  New Blog/Site Address: better-creative-writing
  Confirm: better-creative-writing

  Matching Username?: No

  Discard Current Address?: (Left un-ticked)

  Then I clicked the button at the bottom of this page: [Review my changes]
  …page reloads with this text box message near the top:
  {Site names can only contain lower case letters (a-z) and numbers}

  Which seems to suggest that I can’t have the hyphens in between each word ?

  BUT: At the start, when I entered my keyword, (better creative writing) to create my address,
  it gave this hyphenated-address (better-creative-writing) as an option,
  so why can’t I change to this hyphenated-address now!?

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

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  mommyhive · Member · May 15, 2017 at 12:16 pm

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  Hi,
  As specified “Site names can only contain lower case letters (a-z) and numbers”

  I guess it would have been previously typed by you and stored as cache for it to display as an option when keyword was entered.

  Thank you.

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  bettercreativewriting · Member · May 15, 2017 at 12:45 pm

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  Thanks iamrishaan:
  I see now that the hyphenated-address is offered as a WordPress Premium option, so I guess that’s because It would be using a regular domain address, that can have an hyphenated-address.

  Many thanks