Setting up a blog at a subdomain of my website, using an old blog's name
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I’m not exactly sure how to describe this, so please forgive me if I ramble a bit.
I have a web domain that’s had multiple uses. It used to be a WordPress blog. Now it’s an online portfolio.
When I changed from a blog to a portfolio, I just deleted the old files and uploaded new ones. I know there was probably a better way to do this, but I didn’t think about it at the time.
The old blog still shows up on my WordPress dashboard, but I can’t actually access it. Which sort of makes sense, since I deleted the files.
Now, I’d like to do two things:
Get rid of the old blog entirely, preferably before it’s time to pay for another year of premium service.
Set up a new blog in a subdomain of my portfolio.
That raises a few questions:
Can I take the existing blog and transfer it to the new subdomain, even though I can’t access it through the dashboard? This is appealing, because I wouldn’t have to cancel the premium service for one blog and replace it with premium service for another.
Or should I cancel the old blog and set up a new one?
And finally, there are a couple of wrinkles.
The online portfolio is how I find clients. I can’t shut it down to recover the old blog.
Although I don’t want to recover the contents of the old blog, it would be very nice if I could keep the title.
Thank you very much for your help!
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The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Do you also have a WordPress.COM blog you want to transfer or use? If so it would help us with that URL also
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Oh! Not yet.
Since I wasn’t sure if I could use the skeleton of the old blog, I haven’t set up a new one.
Will it help if I do have a wordpress.com blog? If so, I can set one up now.
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Well, WE cannot help you till you do, because we don’t support WP.org blogs, only WP.com ones.
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You can map to blog.studioscott.com – with a WordPress.COM blog, that is mapping to a sub-domain
You can NOT do studioscott.com/blog – the wrong address structure – you would need a WordPress.ORG install on your current web site with your current host
If you have files to recover depending on what format they are in there could be an issue getting a format that would work here – but you could make Posts by hand with the content you want and change the date of the Post to a date in the past to make the timeline work
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