Re-use a site name
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Hello, I created and then deleted a site name. I chatted with someone and they sait they re-instated the name so I could use it. I still cannot re-name my current site to the new name. The new name I wish to use is lacbigelow.wordpress.com. My current site name is envirobigelow.wordpress.com
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You cannot register and use a site that has been registered by someone else. https://lacbigelow.wordpress.com/ has been registered. If you registered it then you can log in at https://lacbigelow.wordpress.com/ and then export your content out of https://envirobigelow.wordpress.com/ https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into https://lacbigelow.wordpress.com/ https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
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lacbigelow.wordpress.com is up and running and is a near mirror of this site envirobigelow.wordpress.com So, as tt said, you cannot rename envirobigelow to lacbigelow.
Were both websites created under the same username account? If you click on https://wordpress.com/sites do you see lacbigelow.wordpress.com listed there?
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Thank you very much for your help. Since I created the new site name, I exported the old one and imported it to the new one. This let me ‘change’ the site name of the old one.
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That being the case, you should probably change the site visibility settings on envirobigelow.wordpress.com to make the entire site Private to avoid duplicate content.
Alternatively, remove or make the site content on envirobigelow.wordpress.com private (Bulk Edit is your friend) and leave a “forwarding address” to lacbigelow.wordpress.com.
If you have site followers on envirobigelow, with a final post there you’d also be able to notify them they need to switch to following a different site.
Best wishes from me as well.
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Oh dear. I think I got the old/new site names mixed up, but hopefully you understood what I meant.
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