swapping blog addresses

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  hartrockets · Member · Mar 12, 2016 at 8:56 am

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  HI all I want to swap a couple of my blog sites, one is https://hartrockets.wordpress.com/ and I just created the other at https://petesdigitalcanvas.wordpress.com/

  Due to virgin closing the personal web space I need to create a new model rocketry club page so I want to use my blog https://hartrockets.wordpress.com/ but years ago I set up this blog up for my photos.

  I tried to transfer the https://hartrockets.wordpress.com/ site to https://petesdigitalcanvas.wordpress.com/ but I don’t think it worked.

  I want to have my current https://hartrockets.wordpress.com/ to be https://petesdigitalcanvas.wordpress.com/ and
  https://hartrockets.wordpress.com/ to be my new club site, can you help transfer the names around ?

  thanks

  Peter

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  stefmattana · Staff · Mar 12, 2016 at 3:45 pm

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  Hello Peter,

  What did you try to transfer your old site’s content to your new one?

  I’d suggest you to do an Export/Import of all your content from hartrockets.wordpress.com to petesdigitalcanvas.wordpress.com, and then empty hartrockets from all your content for starting over in there only once you see that the importation has been 100% successful.

  Here are the WordPress.com guides for accomplish the above:
  – Export content
  – Import content
  – Empty your website and start from scratch

  Hope this info helps out! Feel free to let me know if you’ve got any doubts or if there’s anything else you need and I’ll be happy to help. Cheers!

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  hartrockets · Member · Mar 12, 2016 at 4:26 pm

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  I did try the export and import, but the theme does not seem to go across and now its not available. So hoped the url name change would be easier. but worried about doing it and them being unable to use the hartrockets one

  Pete

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  stefmattana · Staff · Mar 12, 2016 at 4:47 pm

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  Hello Pete,

  I’m afraid the Chaotic Soul them has been retired, sorry!

  Whilst changing the URL name you won’t be able to re-use the other one again, as if you’re dropping it, so you’re right about that.

  Although you can always create a similar URL name address (ie thehartrockets), if I can spend my 2cents I’d suggest you to find another theme that suits your blog, so to be able to import it in the other website and being free of using the hartrockets.

  I’ve gathered some themes for you that you may like, as they’ve got many features of your old theme and should be quite similar to it. Plus, they’re also responsive, so they render well on mobile devices.

  It would be a shame to throw away your address URL name because of a retired theme! Please have a look at them and let me know if there’s anything you can fancy. Alternatively, let me know if you’re after something in particular, so I can help you out find another theme, if you like to :)

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  hartrockets · Member · Mar 12, 2016 at 4:54 pm

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  thanks for the help

  Pete