Transferring Blog URL From old site to new one
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Hey all,
A few years ago, my student organization created a wordpress.com site with our organization’s name in the URL. For awhile, we did not have access to it, so, when we decided to create a new website, we simply used a less-desirable URL to create and design the new site. Now, we have access to the old site again, and I would like to use the old site’s URL on the new site.
For a little bit, I was going to just export the data from the old site, and then wipe it out, freeing up the URL for the new site. However, I saw in a WordPress.com support article that deleting a site does not free up the site’s URL. What is the best way to get the URL from the old site to the new site? I don’t want to redesign the old site (as we already have a brand-spanking new website up and running, and it would be a pain), but our current site URL is less-than-ideal, and the old site is hogging a good URL. Any ideas? Thanks!
Also, I saw here that WordPress.com said a URL can sometimes be transferred, though they didn’t really provide any explanation how. https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
Thanks again!
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Hello!
I think the best way is to export all the content from the new blog and import it from the URL you’ve recovered. And then add a Site Redirect, to redirect the visits from the new URL to the recovered one.
You can check it out at the bottom of this page
Hope it helps!
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Hey Raimundoz!
Thank you for the reply! The only problem with that is that I will lose the theme on my current site, which no one on my team has time to recreate. Is there a way to transfer the theme for free?
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