unmapping a wordpress website from GoDaddy

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    kimv1025 · Member ·

    I had a website developed in wordpress and the developer mapped it to an existing website registered with GoDaddy at the clients request. The client wasn’t happy with the new wordpress website so we reverted back to the old website we could make changes. However, the wordpress site is still pointing to the GoDaddy site so if we try to make changes, they will be “live changes” and the old site will be shut down while we are making the changes. What can we do to avoid this? Point the wordpress site to a “dummy site”?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there. As you don’t provide a URL I can’t say for sure, but I assume you’re talking of a free .wordpress.com address mapped to the GoDaddy domain? I wonder if the easiest option won’t be to leave the mapping in place and then simply set the WordPress.com site to private. That way, if anyone clicks on the custom domain they would get a message that the site is set to private. While it is set that way search engines also won’t be able to crawl it. Once you’re ready to go public you can then just set it back that way. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

    If that’s not an acceptable solution I can tag this for a staff follow-up, but they’ll need the URL of the .wordpress.com and the custom domain. Please provide the URLs in the form of active links, starting with http://

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