Serious problem since changing blog address

collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:04 pm
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Serious technophobe here once again. Today I changed the address of a blog (still marked private) and since then the themes are different on the blog depending on whether I look at it on Firefox or Google Chrome. Worse still all my photographs are now replaced with text which when clicked on brings up the Error 404 File not found message. I did nothing but follow the WordPress instructions for changing the address. Help please – months of work in danger!

Thanks and remember I’m a technophobe.

David

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:08 pm
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I didn’t put that I needed help with Collectireland.com – that’s my main blog and is public and working fine!!
timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:08 pm
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. Today I changed the address of a blog (still marked private) …

What was the original URL?

What did you change that URL to?
timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:10 pm
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I didn’t put that I needed help with Collectireland.com – that’s my main blog and is public and working fine!!

When you fail to select a URL that the thread pertains to thge software provides the URL. Unless or until you provide the correct URLs so we can begin to help you, you are dead in the water here.
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:28 pm
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Hi,
Sorry, I’m hopeless at the technical end of blogging. My main blog collectireland.com has a pile of private ones accessed through it. I had been working on one for months (marked private) with this address http://collectduplicate.wordpress.com/ and today as the first step to making it public I want to alter the name to something suitable: http://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com

I did everything according to the instructions here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/ but something has gone awfully wrong.

Much appreciate any help.
timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:31 pm
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Both of those blogs exist and have their visibility set to private. To change blog visibility of one to Public go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 1 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:45 pm
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Hi,

I’ve just done that here: http://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com and all the pages seem okay except the Shop one. That said it still seems a bit odd – what should I do about the old one? http://collectduplicate.wordpress.com/

Would I be better moving the Movie blog to a new email a/c and disconnect it from my Collectireland.com site?

Thanks again.
timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 5:51 pm
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all the pages seem okay except the Shop one.

What is the URL of that page please?
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm
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All the pictures have disappeared again and the theme is changed when viewed on Google Chrome. It doesn’t work on Firefox either.
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 6:03 pm
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The theme is correct on Firefox but the pictures are missing.
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 6:18 pm
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Pictures appeared again for a second and are gone again!
kraftbj · Staff · Jan 15, 2014 at 8:26 pm
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I’m looking into this and will let you know when I have something to report :-)

Cheers!
kraftbj · Staff · Jan 15, 2014 at 8:35 pm
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Howdy,

Can you check your site now? Are the images displaying for you?

Thanks!
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 8:52 pm
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No. They are still coming and going. My 10 year old thinks that the I should delete the http://collectduplicate.wordpress.com/ as it is the cause of the problems? Very bad in Chrome.

Thanks.
timethief · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 8:55 pm
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Deletion is irreversible. Don’t do it. Wait for Staff.
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 8:58 pm
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Thanks, the recklessness of youth!
kraftbj · Staff · Jan 15, 2014 at 9:03 pm
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Can you clear your browser’s cache (instructions are at Browser Issues).

I saw a few images there wouldn’t display before making my tweaks, but now, I can’t find any that aren’t displaying (checking all of the pages through M.

Cheers!
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 9:25 pm
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I have done that but there’s still problems – especially when using Chrome. This for instance http://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/auctions/ The word auctions has broken through from my Collect Ireland blog and has nothing to do with the movie blog. Also the movie site seems to be searching the collectduplicate site for photos and yet when you go to that site it says there’s no content.

Cheers.

David
kraftbj · Staff · Jan 15, 2014 at 9:50 pm
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When you edit a page, at the top, you’ll see a small edit link next to the URL.
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If you change the title of the page, you’d want to click that edit link to change the “permalink” to the page to something that makes sense for your new site.

Can you send me an example of what you mean about the images, with specific pages? All of the images on the site appear to be pulling from irelandsmovies.wordpress.com from my look.

Thanks.
collectireland · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 10:16 pm
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Site seems to have settled down now. I still don’t know how the permalinks are related to the Collect Ireland blog though. Most of the pages have the correct links. Anyway, an inauspicious launch of the new blog! Thanks very much for all your help and I’ll be back to you if the site gets bolshie again.

Lastly, should I delete http://collectduplicate.wordpress.com/ ? It shouldn’t affect anything should it?

Thanks.

David

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