Switching domains
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Hi guys,
At the moment I’m using the domain “worldwidewonderlust.wordpress.com” for my main blog. I’d like to change it to “reisewert.wordpress.com” for now, as I use that in other Social Media.
“reisewert.wordpress.com” is hold by me as well, but I’d like now to empty everything out on that domain.
Can I do everything by myself, or do I need an admin from the support team?
Obviously I want to take the followers to the “new” domain, as well as all the posts, pictures and comments. It’s really only about the domain as I want to upgrade my account soon. :)Thanks for your help in advance!
Cheers.
Johanna
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Hi there,
“reisewert.wordpress.com” is hold by me as well, but I’d like now to empty everything out on that domain.
I can empty that site for you, but that will permanently remove all content with no way to reverse it. Please confirm if that’s what you want to do.
Else, you can also do it yourself by following the instructions here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/Obviously I want to take the followers to the “new” domain, as well as all the posts, pictures and comments.
You can move your content by exporting it from the one site and importing it to the other. You can find instructions to do that here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/Once you have moved your content, let me know in this thread and I can move your followers for you.
It’s really only about the domain as I want to upgrade my account soon.
If you plan on getting a custom domain, changing the WordPress.com address won’t really matter, as visitors will only see the custom domain if they visit your site.
Let me know if you have more questions about this.
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Yes, please empty that site (reisewert.wordpress.com) for me.
Can I export everything? Not only Posts and media, but also the “sub-sites”, theme and everything stuff that I changed in the settings?
Yes, I know. But I want to delete the domain worldwidewonderlust.wordpress.com as I would like to use reisewert.wordpress.com as my main blog and main address. :)
Thank you for your help so far!
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I have emptied reisewert.wordpress.com, as requested.
an I export everything? Not only Posts and media, but also the “sub-sites”, theme and everything stuff that I changed in the settings?
The export file contains only your content, i.e. posts, pages, tags, categories, and comments. It does not contain media files, but links to where they are stored. Once the import is complete it will transfer the media files from the old site to the new one, so please don’t delete the old site until you are sure all your media files have made it across.
The theme, theme customisations, custom menus and blog settings can’t be exported, so you’ll have to change all that manually on the new site to match the old one.
But I want to delete the domain worldwidewonderlust.wordpress.com as I would like to use reisewert.wordpress.com as my main blog and main address.
Please keep in mind that if you delete a blog you’ll never be able to use the address again. I recommend you just set it to private. That way it won’t be visible online, but you’ll still have the address should you want to use it again later. Then you can use it as a test site or a backup for your main site.
Or, if you don’t mind someone else using that address, you can empty that site when you’re all done, and leave it online with comments enabled and a sticky post saying that anyone who wants the address can leave a comment to request that you transfer it to them.
The options for both deleting and for setting it to private can be found at My Sites ->Settings ->General Settings.
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Hi :)
I now imported all content to reisewert.wordpress.com. Could you now move my followers from worldwidewonderlust.wordpress.com?
That’d be great!
Thank you so much for all your help!
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I have transferred your followers, as requested.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else :)
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