Renaming WordPress site

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  kilkennycommunity · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 2:52 pm

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  **Please bear with me as I am NOT technologically savvy. I can only imagine how painful this will be for some to read.**
  I am building my first WordPress site (or any website for that matter) for a small Community League I volunteer with. Currently the address I’m using isn’t correct (community name.wordpress.com). Once the correct address becomes available (community name.ca), can I transfer the pages and links and information I’ve created to the new address? Or are they forever linked to the address with WordPress in the URL?
  Thank you!

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  mariahpierson · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 3:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can change your address/url at any point in time. When you change it, your content will move over to the new name. You can read more about that here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  As long as that address/url is available and you register it before someone else does, then it’s yours.

  If you’re wanting to have a custom domain name, then that would require a paid plan. https://wordpress.com/pricing/

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  kilkennycommunity · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 3:31 pm

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  Thank you!! Just waiting for the old server guy to send over DNS (??) records to swap this out. Thanks again.

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  mariahpierson · Member · Nov 5, 2016 at 6:05 pm

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  It sounds like you (or the community) own the domain. If so, you would just map the domain, which also requires a plan. This support document provides more details.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  Best of luck!