Changing subdomain
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i have a free plan i began 10 years ago. I have 3 wordpress.com sites. the site url for each matches the site title such as Russ on the Road that has a URL russontheroad.wordpress.com. I want to add a new site but when I create one the site url has nothing to do with the site title I want to use. WordPress wants the site url to be russontheroad2.wordpress.com which will never do. I’m not going to upgrade/pay a fee to have a site url that matches the site title. I didn’t have to pay anything for my other site titles and urls to match and I’m not going to now. Is there a way to get the site url and site title to match or should I stop trying. Thanks.
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Have you checked if the address you want to use has already been registered by someone else? You can only use a unique subdomain that ends with .wordpress.com. Just keep playing around with different words until you find an address you are happy with.
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Yes. I have checked more than one. I entered, for example, xxx.wordpress.com (where xxx represents the subdomain I tried). The page returned said something to the effect that “this wordpress site does not exist”. So, even when there was no such wordpress.com site, after creating the new site it would have a site URL of russontheroad*.wordpress.com (where * equals an interger). The last time I tried it was russontheroad8.com.
If I can’t get a free site with a relevant wordpress.com URL the site won’t happen. It seems it would be a lose/lose situation.
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Wait…I just found that there is a way to change the site URL for free which I had missed earlier.
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It sounds like you got this sorted.
In my limited experience, if you are logged in and hit on a WordPress.com address and it says “xxx.wordpress.com doesn’t exist” there’s another line that says “Do you want to register xxx.wordpress.com?” So it’s available.
If the site URL is reserved because someone registered the username without creating a website, that URL can’t be used. The message would be something like “The address xxx.wordpress.com cannot be registered. Sorry, that site is reserved! But you can sign up and choose another one.”
And sorry this is stating the obvious. If you already own xxx.wordpress.com, then you can’t register another site with the exact same URL. WordPress.com will append a number to it or mix it up. I’ve sometimes found this generator helpful https://wordpress.com/business-name-generator/ but there are lots of domain name generators on the web.
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