Changing the blog name and URL
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I currently run a blog called FayetteLawyer at https://fayettelawyer.wordpress.com/. However, I’ve been thinking of changing the name and URL to Family Law Arkansas. Is there a way to change the name and URL but still keep all of the old URL active? For example, if someone goes to an old blog post with the old URL, I want them to still be able to see it. How do I do this?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You are describing exactly what domain mapping results in. In order to map to a domain URL one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL 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 new 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 new domain URLs.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
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/
See here 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/
Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
Your upgrade history will be here Dashboard > Store> My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/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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Hi there.
You could clone your https://fayettelawyer.wordpress.com/ contents in a new blog. To do that, you could export anything to an xml file and then import it to your new blog.
You can check a guide about the export process here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and the parallel about import, here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
If you do that and you still want to keep your content aligned in both blogs, you would need to manually copy each new post/page/etc on each one of them.
If you think forward your old blog visits to your new onec ould be a good idea, I would recommend you to take a look to site redirect feature: https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/
I hope this helps! Enjoy blogging.
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This is SO helpful. Thank you!!
Quick follow up. So what I want to do then is create a new WordPress site. Then map that site to point to the old WordPress site?
I was looking at the directions under “Pointing a subdomain from a WordPress.com registered domain to a self-hosted WordPress.org website.” Am I on the right track?
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Why have two sites when you can use the site you have right now with a domain mapping upgrade?
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I guess that makes sense. I was hoping to not have to pay for it. So I was trying to get another free WordPress and then direct it to that, but it sounds like I have to pay for the upgrade if I want to do that.
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There is no means of site redirection as you have described above that is free of charge. You either purchase domain mapping or a site redirect.
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