Question Re-directing to New Host
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We are currently in the process of moving to a new host. Our site, kasamaproject.org, originally had the title “mikeely.wordpress.com.” We mapped the kasamaproject.org domain to wordpress.com, and changed the URL.
However, so far, our images have continued to show a URL of mikeely.files.wordpress.com. If we redirect our old URL (mikeely.wordpress.com) to our new host, will that break our images? Or will links at mikeely.files.wordpress.com continue to work?
Also, will purchasing the site redirect for our articles continue to point users to the correct URLs on the new site? Or is it going to point all articles pointing to old URLs to the home page of our new site/host?
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I’m a bit confused. You apparently have domain mapping, which means your WordPress.com blog is still hosted here, but you have mapped the domain to kasamaproject.org. You haven’t actually moved to a new “host” nor is it a new “site”.
If you purchase the redirect upgrade, it will indeed point anyone coming in from a search engine or direct URL from your old address mikeely.wordpress.com to the new address kasamaproject.org.
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If you do move to a new host (godaddy, bluehost, etc.), when you export your content from here you are given the opportunity to have wordpress transfer all your attachments, files and images over to the new site, and then during the import all the URLs should be changed to reflect the new URLs at the new site.
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I just did a search on google for ” site:mikeely.wordpress.com ” and found a good number of posts with that URL that are still listed in google, so it might be best to get the redirect so that any traffic to those old wordpress.com URLs will get to the new site.
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g’day to tsp!
Import/Export: I’m not really certain whether the images are part of the export or a part of the import. In any event, there’s no mention of attachments in the export. Also, in light of my recent experience, it seems that any internal absolute links will have to be carefully inspected, though I don’t wonder if the redirect won’t take care of that as well… #thinking-aloud
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Every import I’ve done to self-hosted has, asked me if I want to import the attachments/images/files and for me at least, it has always brought them over without any issues.
You are right, images cannot be actually part of an export file. All that is in the export file as far as images are concerned are the URLs. The thing is, in my imports, even unattached images are brought over, so the importer must grab the actual subdirectory that the images are in.
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Of course there is the dreaded possibility of duplicate images being created when it is imported (ask Jennifer and Timethief about that).
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By reports I’ve heard, the duplicate images issue doesn’t seem to be a problem with ORG installs/imports. (tfu, tfu, tfu!)
COM on the other hand…
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/duplicate-image-files-in-media-library?replies=6
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-import-creates-duplicate-images?replies=2 -
I just did the paid site redirect and it works fine at the main URL level. All posts and pages were exported to the new site as well, with the same link structure as far as I know.
thirdofalifetime.wordpress.com to thirdofalifetime.com
But individual post URLs in the old blog come up with a 404 error on the new blog. I was under the impression that the paid redirect would map all old links to the new site. Is this not true? What is the remedy?
Thanks,
Sarah
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TSP: So if we payed the $100 for a site transfer, wp.com would handle making sure all of our images are uploaded to our new server, and that the links on those images are changes to point to kasamaproject.org?
My fear is that currently ALL images on our site have links that point to mikeely.files.wordpress.com.
We don’t want those image links to break. And also, they are SEO and bring a ton of traffic to our site through Google Images, etc.
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It is my under standing that they will make sure everything transfers over correctly and that everything is working properly.
Also, if your images are bringing in a lot of traffic, I would suggest buying the site redirect upgrade which will redirect all traffic from the blog.wordpress.com address to the new address including the images.
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