new domain, old blog

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 2:08 pm

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  <–domain stuff newb

  1. My existing wordpress blog is falltoclimb.wordpress.com

  2. I just purchased thebuggeek.com

  3. What I want it to have all of the posts from falltoclimb.wordpress show up at thebuggeek.com I also want people to be automatically redirected from falltoclimb to thebuggeek so all traffic is directed to the new site.

  Halp?

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

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm

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  Hm. Maybe this will all happen automatically if I’m just patient and wait a few hours for things to kick in?

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 4:27 pm

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  You mapped thebuggeek.com to a new empty blog – you will need staff help to fix this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ – search on anything then page down and click on “no…..” to enable the contact box. – you will need to have the staff transfer the domain mapping to the correct blog – that will save you a second domain mapping charge.

  I will also mark this for staff attention as they also monitor the forums.

  PS – once the changes are properly made it can take 24 to 72 hours for the changes to migrate to the far corners of the internet.

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 4:53 pm

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  Thank you!

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm

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  You be welcome

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 10, 2011 at 7:51 pm

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  I have moved http://thebuggeek.com/ to falltoclimb.wordpress.com as requested.

  Please let us know if you need any further assistance!

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 8:57 pm

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  And I thank you very much!

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 9:07 pm

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  Oh, one more question…is there a way to make the blog invisible to readers briefly while I rejig a few things?

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 9:20 pm

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  You can set it to Private and your visitors will hit a wall that says keep out –

  Dashboard >> Settings >> Privacy >> I would like my site to be private, visible only to users I choose

  I always caution against this if you have regular traffic and visitors – don’t get anyone out of the habit of stopping by – put a Post (make it Sticky if need be) that says “under construction pardon our dust” – I think that visitors are more tolerant than most people think

  What are you planning on changing??

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  tgiq · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 9:58 pm

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  Hm, you raise a good point. My regulars are tolerant peeps and will put up will stuff I suspect. I mostly want to change some cosmetic stuff, the header, the layout a bit, and add some more tabs. I just wanted there to be more of a “TA-DA”! Than things coming in dribs and drabs.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 10:07 pm

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  You can set up a test blog – use a variation of your base blog so you don’t burn a good address. Export some of your material from your site and import it to a test site – set the test site to “Private” and test away – once you decide the new look changing things on your “live real blog” should only take a short time as you already have a template.

  Sorry there is not s “copy config files” function so you will need to change the live site by hand – but if you already have a template the work goes quick.