MAPPING THE BLOG
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Hello WordPress Experts,
No news yet. I entered “thestupidcommonman.com” and it directed me to “mohammedrafiqlodhia. wordpress.com.
I changed the settings and would like to know how long it will take for the change to take place. I mean, If I click on “thestupidcommonman.com” it should be directed to the blog and not to “mohammedrafiqlodhia.wordpress.com”
Thanks,
Rafiq
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Take a long walk & have a Latte or what ever you like
Hold Your Horses!
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Holding horses is not a problem. The real problem is that when I go to the blog, it takes me to mohammedrafiqlodhia.wordpress.com. This is not what I want. It should take the visitor directly to my blog and not
my major blog.Though, I did changed the settings again to make the original one my
primary domain, that is, “mohammedrafiqlodhia.wordpress.com”By the way, I just called “GoDaddy” and they send me a screen shot
saying that when they typed in “thestupidcommonman.com” they
got WordPress “Password” window. This is strange.Granted things like this takes time, but having paid $ 13 to map the
domain so that my YouTube would function properly, therefore, I do
not know what happened. I followed everything as guided by your
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You don’t need to map a domain to use Youtube.
Your custom URL sends me to a private WordPress.com blog. Your non-custom domain sends me to the same blog. Is this not what you want?
I don’t know what you mean by “my major blog.”
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My major blog is “mohammedrafiqlodhia.wordpress.com”
The truth of the matter is, the reason I map the domain is because
from “GoDaddy,” I forwarded to “thestupidcommonman.wordpress.
com.” Recently, I found out that all of my YouTube links were not
functioning properly, hence, I believe it was TimeThief who suggested that I should map the domain.Druesome informed me to change the name servers to point to
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Now, if you click on “whythesilence.com” it is working fine. This domain is with “GoDaddy,” but it is forwarded to “whythesilence.wordpress.com”
blog.Well, I do not know why one works and the other doesn’t? Your guess is as good as mine!
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you have whythesilence.com – as domain forwarded – NOT domain mapped – that is why you are just dumped on whythesilence.wordpress.com – that is how domain forwarding works – listening to Godaddy is almost always bad
you need domain mapping for whythesilence.com – you will also need to undo the forwarding and fix the name servers
No Domain Mapping Found
There is no domain mapping upgrade for whythesilence.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.
There is information on how to set up domain mapping in our support documentation. If you need help after that, please contact our support team.
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You are sort of right about “GoDaddy” advises. They are not too bright so to speak.
I do not mind purchasing domain mapping for “whythesilence.com”
That is not an issue at all. My immediate concern is to see if the one
“thestupidcommonman.com” works within the next couple of days.Then again, I am not sure if the domain mapping which I did for
the stupid common man is done correctly or not?I am just a layman who learned how to make blog. Thanks for all
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http://thestupidcommonman.com/ – works fine for me – sends me to a WordPress.COM blog that is set to Private
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Here is the point. I do not want to set it to “Private.” I want it to be open to all the browser. I reckon this is the sticky point which you must try
to address.Strangely, if I type the blog name, it takes me to my parent blog:
mohammedrafiqlodhia.wordpress.com . Now that is really confusing
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During the 72 hour propagation period while changes reach the far corners of the internet – access will be erratic – you are probably having local caching issues – try clearing your browser cache
The “Private” is not related to the domain mapping – it is at
Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> set to allow site to be indexed and visited by everyone – remember to save changes
then please – take the long walk and don’t change anything – serious
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You bet, I will take a long walk. No latte, but Einstein Brothers bagel with extra cream cheese, please.
I will go to dashboard and set it the reading to be visited by everyone.
If I run into trouble I will give you a jingleGod Bless.
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One more thing, how do I change the color on the tag line of
“thestupidcommonman.com” that is, “common sense ……. “
in brown color? I am sure it is doable, but it probably needs a
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I am not sure about the tagline color – don’t know if it can be changed without the CSS upgrade – look around under
Dashboard >> Appearance
Or open a new thread and ask about the tagline in it – please also give the Theme name in the new thread
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O.K. i shall do so, my friend. I think adding color is too technical.
Sacred Path help me out a lot to set up the header. Not sure,
where he is?Have a good night. God Bless everyone at WordPress.
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Post into the CSS forum with your new thread, then either @TSP or one of the other staff will help you – @TSP is great, but the others that help in the forum are also very sharp
Choose CSS from the drop down on where your question should be posted
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Hello Auxclass,
I save the changes, by selecting:
“Allow search engine to index this site.”
What I did not see is, “visited by everyone” button.
Well, still waiting for the blog to get back in action.
Rafiq
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Allow search engines to index this site
Is the correct setting – I can now see: http://thestupidcommonman.com/ fine
Remember you will work in the Dashboard of the base blog you mapped to here, not thestupidcommonman.com –
looks like you are good to go
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