How can I use an old blog address?

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  How can I use an old blog address?

  I made a mistake and changed my blog address, but I still have the old one it just became a new blog. I just want to use the old one instead of the new one, is it possible? I know I could copy all the pages, but I have 800 pages in the blog and I don’t want to do this. Please I really need to fix this.

  The old name is: reachtheworldtemp.wordpress.com
  The new name is: rtwtemp.wordpress.com

  Thanks.

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

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 7:07 pm

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  Since both addresses are alive you can export the content from one blog and import the content into the new blog

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-between-wordpress-com-blogs

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 7:52 pm

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  All right, the import worked. But the problem is that I had an extension to edit the CSS of my old blog, am I going to be able to use this again? Because right now I cannot find it.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:02 pm

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  Honestly the customization tools are looking really different in this new site…

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:03 pm

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  I had an extension to edit the CSS of my old blog, am I going to be able to use this again?

  You can transfer an upgrade from one blog to another blog as long as both blogs are on the same account, as explained here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#transferring-upgrades

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:10 pm

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  This option is not available for me. It just shows that the upgrade is going to expire in 11 months, but it doesn’t shows that I can transfer.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:13 pm

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  If you have more than one username account you can make the other an Admin of the blog your want to do the CSS editing on and transfer it to their username account so you can transfer the upgrade. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:34 pm

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  All right. I am having a lot of problem because when I imported the content of the website the links that existed in the website still pointing to the old address. I found an easy way to fix it, but I will need to empty the web site http://www.reachtheworldtemp.wordpress.com first, how can I do this?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:37 pm

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  I will need to empty the web site

  You can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
  bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
  bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
  bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
  Here’s how to permanently delete Trash >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#deleting-permanently

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove any indexed items from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:47 pm

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  I transferred the upgrade from the old website to the new one, but I still can’t see it in the new one. When I go to My Upgrades it says that I have no upgrades. What is going on?

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:47 pm

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  I used one account to transfer and I am trying to use another account to edit the new website, is this the problem? I am getting really confuse…

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:48 pm

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  I’ll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:48 pm

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  P.S. Please provide the other username and both blog URLs for Staff.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:53 pm

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  rtwtemp.wordpress.com

  reachtheworldtemp.wordpress.com

  (email visible only to moderators and staff)

  rtwtechhelp

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:54 pm

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  Not to worry as Staff can view redacted email addresses – we can’t.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 8:58 pm

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  OK… And I do need an easier way to empty this website. There was 850 pages in the website. I am trying to delete but I am still on 500 and the trash has 350 now, and it is taking forever to delete.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 9:00 pm

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  Just to make it clear to the staff I will list what I need.

  1 – I need to empty the address reachtheworld.wordpress.com
  2 – I need the design upgrade that I purchased in the blog rtwtemp.wordpress.com to work at the address reachtheworld.wordpress.com

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2013 at 9:03 pm

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  Thanks for the clarity. Staff can delete the content for you and can help your transfer the upgrade. Please be patient while waiting.

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 3, 2013 at 12:51 am

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  Just one more point, if instead of doing all this and give me the work of reediting my blog, the staff people can just rename the blog http://www.rtwtemp.wordpress.com to http://www.reachtheworldtemp.wordpress.com it would be much more useful and easy.

  Thanks

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  rtwtechhelp · Member · Jul 3, 2013 at 2:14 pm

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  I know that I need to be patient, just answer me if someone is going to help me today please. Because I need to have this website before tomorrow, if the staff will not help me today I will to find a way to do this…