GoDaddy Blog to WordPress
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Hi there, I have an existing website (www,teatimewithheidi.me) that is hosted and created at GoDaddy. I am looking into the possibility of switching to WordPress. I have a subdomain under that domain (www.brainblog.teatimewithheidi.me) for my brain blog that is using GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress plugin/product. Is that subdomain something I can transfer over to WordPress WITH the main URL/domain of teatimewithheidi.me without losing all of my posts? Paying over $430 a year for a website that is rarely visited and a blog that doesn’t really have anything to do with tea is getting to be a bit too much. I’d like to create two domains on WordPress: one for the tea side and one for my brain aneurysm stuff like I have it on GoDaddy. Thank you!
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Yes, you can bring both the domain and subdomain, including your content. No worries.
I think this page is really helpful with getting familiarized with WordPress.com:
– https://learn.wordpress.com/These are the step-by-step instructions to move your site: https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
Please give that a read and then write back to me here with any questions.
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Hey there, I was able to transfer my existing blog from GoDaddy to WordPress successfully, but I’ll need to do some redirects to all of the “internal” links I have placed within posts such as the first link on this post. Is there an automated way for that to happen, or will I need to go in and relink all of those internal links?
I am THRILLED the extract and import captured all of my posts (dating back to 2006!) and the images associated. You guys are awesome!
Thanks again!
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Hi there,
Just to make sure I understand correctly, you want existing links in posts that reference
http://www.brainblog.teatimewithheidi.me/to go to the correspondinghttps://heidisbrainblog.com/link on the new WordPress.com site instead?We don’t have an automated way to do that, no. On a self-hosted WordPress installation you’d do it with a search-and-replace plugin, though it’s risky as it can cause unintended changes.
You can also try doing a search-and-replace on your export file itself. Then import that to a test site (just a second free site you create in your account) to see if it works. If it does, we can empty your actual site so you can import the modified file with the correct links instead.
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Hi there,
Yes. Post links that point to another post within the blog itself were pointing to the old one. I didn’t even think about those before I did the import.
Per your advice, I DID do a find & replace on my export .xml file and imported it on a test site on WordPress. All the posts came in and internal links DO point to heidisbrainblog.com now, but none of the photos came in because I changed their navigation with the find & replace. :-(
I guess I still have some work to do!
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The testblog post link you gave here appears to point to a deleted forum post instead. Did you mean to link to https://testbrainblog.home.blog/ instead?
All the posts came in and internal links DO point to heidisbrainblog.com now, but none of the photos came in because I changed their navigation with the find & replace.
I suspected that might happen, yes. That’s why search and replace can be risky and why I asked that you test it first – it tends to be a bit of a blunt tool.
In that case I’m afraid there’s not anything more we can do right now.
If you still own the teatimewithheidi.me domain you can ask your provider for that domain is they can set up a 301 redirect to send any traffic that goes to brainblog.teatimewithheidi.me, to heidisbrainblog.com instead. Hopefully that will still take people to the right posts – the WordPress software always try to find the corresponding post for the URL, even if the permalink structure is not identical (e.g. one with a date, one without). It’s not foolproof, but better than nothing.
But we do have a feature request open to add something like this, as it’s a common issue people encounter when migrating or changing the address of an established site, so I’ll add your request there as well.
Sorry I couldn’t be more help in this case.
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Another option if you plan on keeping the domain, teatimewithheidi.me, is to map your subdomain, brainblog.teatimewithheidi.me, to your site as well. You can map as many domains or subdomains as you want for free with your plan, so there will be no additional cost for that.
If that domain is mapped to your site, we can handle redirecting think links to the new heidisbrainblog.com domain on our end, which might work better than setting up a redirect on your domain provider’s end.
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