URL issue/questions – Login not on custom domain name & can I map www to TLD?

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 4:34 pm

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  I have just upgraded to have my own domain used as the primary domain for my WordPress.com site. I have added the domain and updated the DNS details to allow mail to go to the previous server. I can access the wordpress site using the address shown above but I appear to be always logged out. As you can understand this causes the site visitors number to bump up each time. When I click log in I am redirected to http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-login.php and I can then log in as normal. however when I do all the admin screens begin http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  My first question therefore is how to I update/change the login screen, and subsequent Admin screens, to be just http://easyas12pc.co.uk?

  The second question is can I map or otherwise http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk to http://easyas12pc.co.uk using the wordpress.com dns settings screen.

  Thanks in advance
  William

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 4:45 pm

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  You cannot change the admin screens, but the login screen should work at http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin

  http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk/ will always reroute to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ on a WordPress.com setup.

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 5:09 pm

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  Thanks for the reply raincoaster.

  My issue is not that the admins screens do not work on http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin but that they only work on http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin.
  If I go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ I am not logged in even after clicking log in. This causes the visitor count to increase every time I access the site using http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ to view posts etc.

  Currently http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk/ does not reroute to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ it is still going to the previous location. I would like for the rerouting to happen as you describe.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 5:45 pm

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  You may have to set up a redirect on the www address at your domain registrar. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen with some domain registrars, while with others WWW redirect are seamless and automatic.

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 5:47 pm

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  I followed the instructions for assigning the domain but I’ll try what you said thesacredpath.

  Being unable to be logged into the bare domain is the more pressing issue as I said the counter increases every time I visit.

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jun 28, 2012 at 7:10 pm

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  The www issue has now been resolved it was a local DNS issue.

  I still have the issue that I cannot log into http://easyas12pc.co.uk only http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 3:11 pm

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  I still have the issue that I cannot log into http://easyas12pc.co.uk only http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com. This is not useful as I cannot check that a post is showing properly without increasing the views. At present every time I land on http://easyas12pc.co.uk I am increasing the views counter which I obviously do not want to do as then I have no idea of the actual number of visitors I have that day.

  Any help or clarification on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 3:46 pm

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  If you log in at http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/ then go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ your page views will not be counted –

  I have a mapped domain name and I am never counted as long as I log in to the base account first – I just double checked it on my site and still works that way for me

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 4:09 pm

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  Thanks for the reply auxclass, I really wish this was the case however I can log into http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-login.php as many times as I want however I am never logged in at http://easyas12pc.co.uk.

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 4:12 pm

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  I can even click the logo in the top left of the Dashboard, which is on http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/, but I am not logged in at http://easyas12pc.co.uk.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 4:21 pm

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  You will never be logged into http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ where you see that in your dashboard –

  Your dashboard will always show http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ – your dashboard is always the base URL of the WordPress.COM that your domain name is mapped to

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  easyas12pc · Member · Jul 2, 2012 at 4:25 pm

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  Currently anytime I go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk the visitor count is increasing by one. This happens each and every time. If I was so inclined I could force my page views. It even registers the referrer as WordPress Dashboard.