Effect of Changing Site Name on Posts Already on My Blog

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  hiddenmillenial · Member · Mar 6, 2019 at 10:05 am

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  I’ve been reading about how to change a site name, but I’m not quite sure I understand how it will affect the posts I already have on my blog before I changed the site name. If I do not change the domain, just the site address (ex. example.wordpress.com to example2.wordpress.com), will I lose those posts? Is that what it means to have them be broken links? Or will the site name in the links to those posts just change?

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  synapsemage · Member · Mar 6, 2019 at 2:03 pm

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  Hi,

  If you change your site address the site name you won’t loose the post but the sitename will change to your new one.

  For example using your most recent post,

  Decluttered in December

  
  will change to
  new-name-here.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/decluttered-in-december/

  This means that any place you shared the link with your old site address will no longer work, unless you use the Redirect upgrade https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

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  hiddenmillenial · Member · Mar 7, 2019 at 3:57 am

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  Ok, that clears it up for me. Thank you very much!