Domain name not working on homepage

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  stephanieandkimberly · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 1:47 am

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  I just bought the domain name for my website 2 days ago, but now when I go on my website and click “home”, it redirects to my old domain link (with ___.wordpress.com) which doesn’t exist anymore instead of the main page. How do I fix this?

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  brianzed · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 2:22 am

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  Hi @sisterrunway,

  Good news! I checked your site at sisterrunway.com and it seems to be working with no redirection to ___.WordPress.com.

  Try clearing your browser’s cache and see if it works.

  Hope this helps!

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  wp365wp · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 2:24 am

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  Have you set your purchased domain as the primary domain? If not, everyone will see your site address as “___.wordpress.com”. Read this support document about it:

  Domains

  When you’re logged into your WordPress.com account and you’re not on a homepage/post/page view you’ll always see “___.wordpress.com” as your website address. Other’s will see only the domain name that you bought/mapped. No worries.

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  stephanieandkimberly · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 2:47 am

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  Thank you both for answering!

  I have already set it as my primary domain, but each time I click the “home” tab on my blog, it still gets redirected to my old domain… I don’t want my followers to keep getting redirected to an error page each time they click the “home” tab on my blog..

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  wp365wp · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 2:53 am

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  Go to your Dashboard > Appearance > Menus and make a necessary change into the custom Home link. Remove http://chateaucollection.wordpress.com/ and replace it with http://sisterrunway.com/

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  stephanieandkimberly · Member · Oct 4, 2015 at 4:09 am

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  Your advice worked! Thank you so much!!