03 July, 2008
How to Redirect a WordPress.com Blog
Moving from a WordPress.com blog to your own domain is very easy--if you know how. Problem is, and we recently discovered this while trying to move http://blogwell.wordpress.com to http://blog-well.com , there is very little information online telling you how to do it, and the information that was available was confusing or plain wrong. As a result we have created this document to help anyone that gets stuck. Hope it’s helpful!
We have now successfully redirected BlogWell and are maintaining it ourselves on GoDaddy. Check it out - go to either of the above addresses and you will end up at the same place: http://blog-well.com. Why redirect a WordPress.com blog to your own domain? The main reason anyone would want to redirect their WordPress.com blog to their new domain is to ensure links coming in to their original blog are not lost.
Existing links to your original WordPress.com blog will be automatically redirected to the new blog, for instance, our post on WordPress for Dummies, http://blogwell.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/wordpress-for-dummies/ will now be automatically redirected to http://blog-well.com/2007/11/20/wordpress-for-dummies/
Also, the RSS 2.0 feed at http://blogwell.wordpress.com/feed will be automatically redirected to http://blog-well.com/feed. So you can move the blog's physical location on the Web and allow existing links to the old location to be automatically redirected to the new location.
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