Trouble Adding URL

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  trackerblog · Member · Nov 15, 2008 at 6:11 pm

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  Hello,

  I needed a little help a few weeks ago and was blown away by the support on the forum. So much so, I shifted a blog that was on Blogger to WordPress. One more itsy bitsy step to blog heaven…. I want to change the url from http://trackerblog.wordpress.com to http://trackerblog.instedd.org. So I went to the domain area, put in the new url, paid the $10 via paypal for the credits to do and….nada. I waited an hour and a half and wrote to the WordPress Support. That was 2 hours ago and I haven’t heard a thing. I gave them paypal transaction reference number. Should I be patient? Suggestions?

  Thanks!

  – janet

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 15, 2008 at 8:31 pm

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  Have you followed all of the steps in the FAQ? I can’t tell from what you have posted what you have done. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/domain-mapping/

  If that url was one that you already owned, then you still may need to do the “put blog here” step See the FAQ

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  trackerblog · Member · Nov 16, 2008 at 2:44 am

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  Thank you Vivian Paige! I actually can’t make heads or tails of the FAQ, though, but have asked a friend to take a look. The minute it gets into “DNS” and lists of numbers,it’s flying over my head…I’m more the drag’n’drop type…

  best,

  Janet

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 16, 2008 at 6:10 am

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  It can take up to twelve hours after making the change for everything to settle down, as well. And do be aware that things take longer on the weekend.

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  flowergardengirl · Member · Nov 16, 2008 at 6:14 am

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  I will second what raincoaster said–it can take quite awhile sometimes and that holds true for the four other host that I have tried as well. I do love wordpress. I’ve tried them all and had many a headache in the process. WordPress gives me the best traffic and quality.