Changing my Domain

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    designingfrommycloset · Member ·

    I am wanting to change my domain to a site I already own without the .wordpress. I see the place to go to do this, but I have a few questions about what will happen when I do the change. Will readers who search my site by the .wordpress http be routed to my new domain name? Will all of my posts I have already written under the .wordpress account still be there in my archives?

    A big thanks in advance for any help.

    Thank you,
    Janeane

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Think of adding a domain like putting a dust jacket on a book. The book looks completely different when you do that, but the book itself is still exactly the same.

    A domain works the same. Your site itself won’t change in any way, and your followers might not even notice that anything has changed unless they look at the address in their browsers. That is the only thing that will change. All the old links to the free address of your site will still work, and all your followers will still see your posts in the Reader or in their emails, depending on how they followed your site.

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