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I’m on an Ethernet from Shaw cable in Canada. Occasionally Shaw has outages, like everyone else. Opera loads more slowly than some browsers, probably because of not preloading as much. Shawna, you don’t have to solve it. I was forwarding my experience since you had escalated the issue and the fact that I couldn’t find a way that worked for me.FYI, since this is a single document broken up into parts, I have seven edit windows open simultaneously and one viewing window for testing links. As an interactive tutorial, I want the entire thing to be linked as needed. On pt-1, the “But Why” section, for instance, you’ll see how it’s relevant to keep that page open for editing as I continue writing.
In addition, all of the trance types end with a paragraph that links to my coaching site and that ends with this sentence: (This boring :-| paragraph appears throughout this document to accommodate people who use our links appropriately.)
The point is that I want people to read the document while navigating back and forth throughout it. That means I have to write it that way, which is why I initially tried writing it as a single page until I ran into the problem that started this dialog.
Incidentally, this is a preliminary document that will eventually be turned into a series of connected apps. Currently, there are more than 330 planned. Here’s one that’s written in jQuery/JavaScript. I have a navigation system written in PHP.
http://grokwisdom.org/breathing.phpBut I’m not a programmer. I’m a writer and educator, and this document in seven parts is a preparatory doc to some of the further linking together I intend to eventually accomplish. I’m still learning the programming, since it’s not really a natural talent (still a novice), and my time is really divided between programming, writing, and facilitating groups. As well as trying to keep fit and other personal stuff.
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Thank you so much for your feedback. It really is helpful so that we can make updates and move forward. :)
Everything you’re working on looks so helpful. And that you’re diving into the PHP yourself is awesome. The crosslinking will be so great for your users in the end, even though its a pain to get set up now.
It’s been great to chat with you, even though I wasn’t able to fully help. I’ve been working on finding time for self reflection and mindfulness, and working on balancing my life. It’s great to see you working on such a massive project with such dedication and willingness. :)
I’ll keep working with the Copy a Page tool and see if I can find what’s causing your overwriting issue. I didn’t have nearly as many editors open when I was testing, so I’ll give it another go.
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Hi, Shawna (or whoever, if she’s no longer there),
Since this is a public forum, I don’t want to disclose certain plans publicly, but what I want to do is buy another domain and transfer my content to it, or republish my content on it. Is there an easy way to do this, such as simply changing the domain name of the claritycommunity.org site to newsite.org?I realize I have to personally edit any internal references on this site and others, but for the basics, can I just do one thing and have the basics handled?
In your support help files, it says,
Register a New Domain
On WordPress.com, you can register a custom domain (for example, yourgroovydomain.com) and use it instead of your blog’s current address (such as yourgroovysite.wordpress.com). Your old address will still work, but we will automatically redirect traffic from your old address to your new one. Domain Registration is a paid upgrade that costs $18 per domain ($25 for .me domains), per blog, per year.This doesn’t tell me what happens if I want to register a new custom domain to replace the old custom domain. Is it the same price? Do I get the same redirects?
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On the My Upgrades page, it has buttons for: Learn more
Add Credit Card
Disable Auto Renew
Cancel Private Registration
Cancellation Info
Transfer to another siteIf I click Transfer to another site, it gives me warnings that dissuade me from trying it.
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Hello! I’m still here. :)
Would you like me to move this to a private email so we can talk about the specifics?
To change your domain, you purchase your new domain like usual here:
Then you’ll need to set your primary domain to the new domain. That will be listed here:
https://wordpress.com/my-domains
All of your old links will actually keep working while both domains are connected to the same site, so anything you added manually yourself will keep working while you fix the links.
Our “omnisearch” tool will probably help in finding those links in your posts:
https://clarityclusters.wordpress.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=omnisearch
If you already own the domain and its mapped or registered through a different WordPress.com site, you can use the Transfer to another site option instead of purchasing a new one.
Does that clarify things? Let me know if you’d like to move to a private email. :)
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I actually own another domain through Killersites, but I didn’t think it would be possible to link this webpage to that domain. If I can, I would prefer to, though I was out in the garden and didn’t see your response until now, which may be too late.
That domain, which I already own, but which has nothing on it, is joyfulwisdom.org. I think that a private email conversation would be good. How long are you still at work, if you still are today?
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I understand, after reading further, that for $13/year, I can use that domain for my wordpress site.
As I continue to look at the domain that I own, I see that I already have an active index.htm, and I’m wondering if WordPress.com needs me to rename that. Also, before I go ahead, I need to know if WordPress.com would overwrite anything or if there are any file names and folder names that WordPress.com reserves in my root.
The path forward that I’m seeing is to rename my index.htm as indexold.htm–which I’ve already done, and then get everything registered and connected. Then, it looks like I can use omnisearch to locate name conflicts before giving indexold.htm it’s final name.
I want to be sure about everything. The new domain is not yet set as my main domain at Killersites, so I believe that I need to do that first, once I’ve figured out what files and directories WordPress.com require for itself. Once I’ve done that and renamed anything that would conflict, then I can map my existing website to wordpress, and use omnisearch to repair all broken links.
Is this the correct plan?
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The most important thing is to know what files and directories WordPress.com might overwrite. If you have something implemented that prevents overwriting by giving the directories you need a unique extension or something, then I don’t have to worry. But I want to be sure before I put any of my stuff at risk.
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Hi there,
Sorry to butt in, but Shawna is out over the weekend and it sounded like you really wanted an answer to your questions. I didn’t want to leave you hanging!
If you take this new domain which you have at killersites, point it towards us, and purchase the domain mapping you mentioned (the $13 option), then you’re going to be just fine. We don’t actually overwrite anything, we just dynamically change the structural links for your site to point to joyfulwisdom.com instead of claritycommunity.org (the header, any sidebar links, etc. Any internal links within posts stay how you created them, so you would need to update those yourself).
As an added bonus, since you already have claritycommunity.org out until July of this year, all of the links to claritycommunity.org will continue to work just fine. You can take your time updating those over to joyfulwisdom.com.
Let me know if any of this didn’t make sense or if you need additional information. I’m happy to help!
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Thank you, Mr. Mighty. I think you heard my anxiety talking, because I’m concerned about a lot of things, but in terms of the technology and the people concerns with making a huge branding change.
But I’m still not clear on certain issues. joyfulwisdom.org is still not live–everything is over at grokwisdom.org. Grokwisdom.org already has an index.htm (though I made a copy called indexold.htm, and it’s really just an archive page from 2007 anyway). Are you saying that this file is NOT reserved by wordpress.com? WordPress.com will NOT require an index.htm to load as the first thing seen when someone goes to joyfulwisdom.org? Do I understand you correctly?
I do other programming over at grokwisdom.org, so I don’t want to do anything that interferes with wordpress.com files or folders, but at the same time, I’ll be ftp’ing other files and folders up and down from the site for my other programming, such as the meditation app: http://grokwisdom.org/breathing.php, which contains an animation created with jQuery. (Warning: you can’t click past the animation before doing five mindful breaths by following the instructions.) In addition, I have a PHP navigation tool that will eventually link 325 apps like that one together that is at this page currently: http://grokwisdom.org/start.php. I will continue to modify the file structure, and I need to know how to avoid mucking up my wordpress files, so I need to know what kind of structure your files will be in and whether there are any reserved names.
The behavior that I want is for visitors to go immediately to my current claritycommunity.org front page as soon as they load joyfulwisdom.org. So I’m expecting a name conflict with the index.htm file of my existing current grokwisdom.org. If there is no name conflict, how does wordpress communicate to the browsers that the wordpress front page is where to go first?
Over at grokwisdom.org (which will become joyfulwisdom.org) I already have an images folder. If I understand correctly, you will dynamically change the structural links in the wordpress site to avoid overwriting my existing images file, so that your images file might be called images1 or something similar to avoid name conflicts within my images folder. If this is not the case, then I need to know as soon as possible so that I can reprogram my PHP and JavaScript files.
Thank you.
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FYI, in case I didn’t indicate clearly enough: grokwisdom.org will be migrated to joyfulwisdom.org, so that all of the references above to grokwisdom.org will eventually point to joyfulwisdom.org. The breathing app, for example, will be at http://joyfulwisdom.org/breathing.php, and the navigation tool will be at http://joyfulwisdom.org/start.php.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
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One other question has occurred to me. I’ve uploaded images to wordpress.com that are already in my file structure at grokwisdom.org, which means that they will be in the images directory of joyfulwisdom.org when all of this goes down. Will I be able to point to my existing images folder from my wordpress.com site?
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I think there may be some fundamental confusion about what can be done here at WordPress.com actually. It’s not a bad thing at all, but I don’t want you to make too many plans down the wrong path!
When I originally said that you could move the joyfulwisdom.org domain over, I meant that you can point that domain towards the site which you currently have here at WordPress.com. While you can upload images to the site here at WordPress.com, you’re not going to be able to upload the lion’s share of what else you described plus we do not allow FTP access to our servers.
All is not entirely lost here however. There are several options which you can pursue, including keeping your hosting where it is for joyfulwisdom.org and just setting up a blog over here at WordPress.com with a subdomain, such as blog.joyfulwisdom.org. Or you could reverse that. You could point your domain joyfulwisdom.org towards us and have all of your site information, but have your apps hosted elsewhere under a subdomain, such as apps.joyfulwisdom.org.
I’m so sorry for that miscommunication before. Let me know if any of this doesn’t make sense.
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Hi, Mighty or Shawna,
It’s clear that even when I think I’m being clear and you think you’re being clear, things aren’t always clear. This is why I try to reflect what I understand and restate the obvious, because different people think different and opposing things are obvious.
So I now understand, I think, that I have to create a subdomain (probably community.joyfulwisdom.org) and then map that subdomain to the WordPress site. If I understand correctly, even though Killersites is hosting my main programming and other things, the actual location of the subdomain will be on your servers. In addition, if I understand correctly, the $13 that I will pay yearly for the mapping to my subdomain will replace the $26 that I have been paying per year for claritycommunity.org
I’m currently waiting for the change from one domain to another domain on killersites to complete before I can create the subdomain that I will map to you, which I’m thinking of as community.joyfulwisdom.org. My understanding is that this will not conflict with anything that I’m currently hosting on joyfulwisdom.org (or will be as soon as the adjustment with the DNS server is complete).
I think I understand it correctly at long last. True?
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You are 100% correct! You have each detail perfect.
We can work together on the mechanics of how to point the subdomain “community.joyfulwisdom.org” towards us whenever you’re ready, but it’s not that difficult and we have a help article which walks you through the steps.
Well done! It is always so amazing when an “ah-ha” moment is reached. :)
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I’m am confused. I’ve done everything I know to do, but now it tells me to update my DNS. I’ve tried various things and can’t find the page that matches the instructions. It seems that no matter what I do, I can’t find anything that matches the instructions that I’ve found. I’ve made
community.joyfulwisdom.org the primary domain. On the My Domains page, it allows me to edit community.joyfulwisdom.org, but not claritycommunity.org. On the https://wordpress.com/my-upgrades, I clicked Enable Auto Renew and entered my info, but it didn’t stick, and a warning shows up: DNS needs to be updated. I have no idea what to do next. -
OK, this next part you’ll actually need to do at the registrar for joyfulwisdom.org. You’ll need to log in to your interface with them and edit the DNS there. You should have the option to create DNS entries.
The one you’ll want to create is called a CNAME and has a couple of parts: the prefix (which in this case will be “community”) and the destination (which will be “clarityclusters.wordpress.com”).
Each domain registrar labels these differently, so it might look slightly different, but those are the two basic parts. Find them and enter those two values, click save, and wait a few hours. The warning about needing to update your DNS will go away and your site will come up!
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The area where we document it is right here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/#instructions-for-mapping-subdomains
That part is all very correct, and I’m sorry that we didn’t make it terribly clear. Sadly domains and how they point are actually pretty complicated. It can take some interpretation sometimes to make it more clear on a case-by-case basis.
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I just phoned killersites, and they helped me set up forwarding of the subdomain of community to http://clarityclusters.wordpress.com using the option of forwarding with masking.
The man showed me how to get to the CNAME option dialog, which contains a drop-down for RECORD TYPE: (CNAME), HOST: *, POINTS TO: *, and TTL: * . However, he said that the claritycluster.wordpress.com needs to be connected back to the server, if I’m going to do that. He said that what shows up is the new alias I’m sending to, namely community.joyfulwisdom.org.
This is all confusing to me, and it sounds like it’s confusing to the tech guy, there at Killersites, who sounds quite proficient and knowledgeable in his job. What do I do?
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