redirect traffic between wordpress sites

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  fredrickland · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 9:44 am

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  Can anybody help me with the following:

  1) I want to change the name of my blog from XXX.wordpress.com to YYY.wordpress.com
  2) I would like that anybody who tries to access a blog post on the old website: e.g. XXX.wordpress.com/blog1 is automatically redirected to YYY.wordpress.com/blog1

  is that possible? and how do i do it?

  Thanks

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 25, 2015 at 9:56 am

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  Hi there. If you haven’t yet registered the new address, you can only change the existing one. Instructions to change your blog URL are found in this support doc: http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/ Information on the site redirect at the bottom.

  Please make sure you read the support doc and all instructions and warnings carefully as this process cannot be reversed.

  When prompted whether you’d like to keep the old URL or delete it, don’t delete it, otherwise you won’t be able to buy the site redirect: http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  Rather, set the old address to private, and then you can either use it as a test blog to try out new themes and widgets, etc., or you can use it as a backup to your regular blog by periodically importing content to it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  As part of the process you’ll also have the option to change your username to match the new address. Note that if you do this your current username will cease to exist and you won’t later be able to go back to it. If you prefer, you can also keep your username what it is and simply change your display name (what will appear next to comments – on the forum it will still be the actual username that appears). Instructions to do that can be found here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

  To automatically redirect visitors from the old address to the new one you’ll need to buy the Site Redirect upgrade: http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ You don’t have to buy this, but if you don’t people who had your old address bookmarked won’t be able to find it, and any links to your old address on other sites will no longer work, so if your blog has been around for a while it is recommended. Alternatively you can leave the old address public and publish a post providing the link to the new address so people who have the old one bookmarked can still find your blog.