Turn off Domain Mapping so LinkedIn widget grabs new blog

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  4realz · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 12:15 am

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  A few months ago, I moved my blog to a self-hosted environment… and all is well and fine and i didnt’ worry about the fact that the WP.com backend still showed I had domain mapping on the backend because the DNS settings were pointing to the new domain.

  However, when I installed the new LinkedIn App for WordPress, and insert my blog’s domain (http://4realz.net), the WordPress App on LinkedIn is automatically overwrites my blog domain with the wordpress.com domain and displays old blog posts.

  Is there any way to cancel domain mapping on the backend of WP.com so that this doesn’t happen?

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 12:20 am

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  Contact staff directly via your Dashboard support button and ask.

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  4realz · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 6:29 am

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  good call… I’ll try out that option now.

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  guruofnew · Member · Oct 31, 2008 at 1:03 am

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  I tried to use the new Linkedin app for wordpress and have repeatedly received AUTHENTICATION FAILURE. I have tried both: http://blog.guruofnew.com/ and plain old guruofnew.com (which pts to the blog).

  Help! (Thank you)

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 31, 2008 at 1:24 am

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  guru – I’m afraid you are in the wrong forum. This forum is for blogs hosted at wordpress.COM. Since you appear to be self-hosted, head over to http://wordpress.ORG/support/

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  tellyworth · Staff · Oct 31, 2008 at 2:16 am

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  The LinkedIn widget was developed by Automattic Inc. You can contact support at wordpress.com with reports of problems using the LinkedIn app with both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Oct 31, 2008 at 2:52 am

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  OK, so all LinkedIn issues need to go to http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

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  onlinemarketer · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 12:10 pm

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  I got the following reply from WP support:

  You still have domain mapping enabled in your WordPress.com blog:

  http://MYBLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/paid-upgrades.php?page=domain-mapping

  As far as WordPress.com is concerned, MYBLOG.com is still hosted on our servers, so those are the posts the LinkedIn app displays. You can fix this by disabling domain mapping (use the Put Blog Here link).

  However, the LinkedIn app still does not work for me. The only thing this did was change the default URL in the LinkedIn app – it’s still showing old posts.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 12:16 pm

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  Can you give us an actual link to your blog?

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  onlinemarketer · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 3:18 pm

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  Raincoster: It’s OnlineMarketerBlog.com

  WARNING:
  I did as WP advised. Not only are my LinkedIn updates still NOT current, but now my syndication with others sites is completely screwed up.

  FAIL.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm

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  So contact support again?