Site Redirect
301 redirect, domains, mapping, redirect
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Are you leaving WordPress.com? Would you like to redirect yourblogname.wordpress.com (as well as all of your permalinks) to your new domain name? Have you recently changed your blog address and need to redirect traffic to the new name? The Site Redirect upgrade lets you do just that — and managing the redirect couldn’t be easier.
Simply purchase the upgrade from the Store page in your dashboard. The first step will be to enter the new domain or address where you want your WordPress.com traffic to be redirected. Type the URL of the destination site into the blank field, and click the blue button that says Redirect to this URL.
You’ll be asked to confirm the purchase, and will be taken through the checkout process. When the payment has been completed, you’ll be taken to the domain management page at Store > Domains. You’ll notice a few things, numbered on the image below.
- Your purchase has been confirmed, so the Store > Domains page now includes management for your new Site Redirect upgrade.
- The redirect is in effect. The radio button shows the redirected domain as your new Primary domain.
- You can change the destination URL at anytime by editing the URL field and clicking Update redirect, or you can delete the redirect altogether.
If you want to turn off the redirect for a while but don’t want to delete it, all you have to do is click on the radio button next to your original WordPress.com domain, and click the Update Primary Domain button, as shown in the image below.
You can turn the redirect back on at any time by returning to this screen, selecting the redirected URL as the primary domain clicking to update.
Easy-peasy!
Note: The site redirect upgrade will not work for URLs that do not have the same permalink structure as your posts on WordPress.com.
Want it even easier? Sit back and watch a video walkthrough:
Looking for the directions that used to be here for the domain mapping trick we used to use before we offered the Site Redirect upgrade? We’ve archived them for you, just in case you need to remember what you did before. See Redirecting Your Blog (the old way).
Last modified: April 9, 2012
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