Difference in Site address vs. dashboard address

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  ryantherenegade · Member · Aug 5, 2015 at 11:35 pm

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  I want to change my current site address to what my dashboard address is. Can anyone help me solve this? Thank you!

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

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Aug 6, 2015 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi,
  Are you referring to the site https://ryantherenegade.wordpress.com/? I’m not sure that I understand your request. The site’s classic dashboard address would be https://ryantherenade.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php. Is this the address that you want to change the current address to? The “wp-admin” part of the URL designates it as an administrative area of the site and it therefore can not be used as the site address.

  The My Sites dashboard for the site would by default be at https://wordpress.com/stats/day/ryantherenegade.wordpress.com. This also can not be used as the site address since it designates an administrative area of the account.

  32goonward.com redirects to https://ryantherenade.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 6, 2015 at 7:40 pm

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  Oops, No Primary Site Set
  There is no primary domain set for ryantherenegade.wordpress.com. This means that although 32goonward.com will forward to the site, 32goonward.com will appear in the browser address bar. To learn more about setting a primary domain, please see our documentation.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Aug 6, 2015 at 7:52 pm

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  Thanks, timethief.

  @ ryantherenegade
  Correction:
  I misspelled the site title twice in the above post. In “The site’s classic dashboard address would be https://ryantherenade.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php” the name in the address should have been “ryantherenegade” instead of “ryantherenade.” The same error was made in the last sentence, which should have read

  32goonward.com redirects to https://ryantherenegade.wordpress.com.

  Perhaps I misunderstood your intention. You said,

  I want to change my current site address to what my dashboard address is.

  If you mean that you want to change the site title from “Renegade Ryan,” to “Ryan the Renegade” this can easily be accomplished via the classic dashboard at Settings > General > Site Title, or at Customize > Site Title. In either case, just change the title as desired and save the change.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 7, 2015 at 1:23 pm

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  Hi Ryan,

  If you’re still having trouble making the address change you mentioned, can you please provide more details about exactly what you’d like your site address to be? I’d be happy to take a look at that for you.

  (Thanks for your help, musicdoc1 and timethief!)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Aug 7, 2015 at 9:13 pm

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  You’re welcome, rachelmcr.

  I don’t know if this will be helpful, but I noticed yesterday, though didn’t report until now that not only does
  32goonward.com redirect to https://ryantherenegade.wordpress.com, but the member’s username links to the site https://32goonward.wordpress.com/, which is therefore the primary website of the account. We have at least the following three websites in the account:

  • 1. https://32goonward.wordpress.com (primary website) — titled “Renegade Ryan” — Though it is assigned as the primary website of the account it has virtually no content — just the default “About” page, and no posts.
  • 2. http://32goonward.com — titled “3, 2, Go Onward,” according to a Google search result, but the URL redirects to https://ryantherenegade.wordpress.com (see below)
  • 3. https://ryantherenegade.wordpress.com — titled “Renegade Ryan”