How do I transfer my custom design and custom domain to another blog?

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  silviapop · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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  Hello,

  I need to transfer my custom design and custom domain to another blog. What I really wanted to do was to change the URL of my blog, but that’s apparently not possible, so I set up a new blog, imported the posts and pages from my other blog into it, and now I’d like to transfer the following to it:

  1. My custom domain mapping: http://nutritionbysilvia.com to http://wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com as a secondary mapping. (The primary one is http://wellnessbysilvia.com).

  2. My Custom Design upgrade: from nutritionbysilvia.wordpress.com to wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com.

  3. My subscribers: from nutritionbysilvia.wordpress.com to wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com.

  Thank you in advance for you assistance with this! If there’s a possibility to simply change my blog URL from nutritionbysilvia.wordpress.com to wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com, then I think that would be an easier route and I would welcome it. As it stands now, both sites are identical, except for the subscribers and the upgrades mentioned above.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 10, 2013 at 10:42 pm

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  I can help you with all of that.

  However, before we do so, it is possible to change your WordPress.com site URL:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  Take a look through that page and let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll be happy to help.

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  silviapop · Member · Jul 11, 2013 at 6:12 am

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  I wish I’d have known that ahead of time… I would like to change my blog address now that you’ve pointed it out to me, however, I’ve already created a new blog with the address that I want (wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com), and the site won’t let me do it.

  If I delete wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com, can I then do what I want? Will I be able to rename my blog to this new name, will the WP system let me do it?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 11, 2013 at 6:27 pm

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  Sadly, now that you have set up the new blog, we have to do it the long way. I know, I know. Sucks. But we can still get it done.

  So as a first step, here is how you transfer upgrades:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#transferring-upgrades

  Take a look through that page and let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll be happy to help.

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  silviapop · Member · Jul 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm

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  Okay, all upgrades have been transferred to the new site (wellnessbysilvia.wordpress.com) from the old site (nutritionbysilvia.wordpress.com). What’s the next step?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 12, 2013 at 3:08 am

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  Okay, just to double check, you do have all the content correctly moved over from old to new?

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  silviapop · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm

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  Yes, everything is moved over, EXCEPT the subscribers, which I couldn’t move by myself because they weren’t included in the export file.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 15, 2013 at 4:42 am

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  I have run the migration. You should be good to go. Thanks for your patience.

  Let me know if there is anything else I can do.

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  silviapop · Member · Jul 15, 2013 at 12:09 pm

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  Thank you, that was it! Can I go ahead and delete the old blog?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jul 15, 2013 at 5:17 pm

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  Yes, you should be able to do that now.