Question about primary domains

  • Resolved readdiversebooks

    (@readdiversebooks)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    If I have a self-hosted blog that I connected through Jetpack to a wordpress.com account/blog that I do not use at all, is it necessary to pay to change the primary domain of my wordpress.com blog over to my self-hosted domain name? I don’t want anyone going to my wordpress.com URL because there’s nothing there.

    I was having the issue that when I followed other wordpress blogs, some people would follow me back but they would only end up following my wordpress.com blog (which I do not use). I have since gone to my account settings and made my self-hosted domain the primary website, so I hope that fixes the problem.

    So basically, if I DON’T plan to migrate my blog over to wordpress.com, do I simply connect through Jetpack and be done?

    I hope that wasn’t too confusing.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    is it necessary to pay to change the primary domain of my wordpress.com blog over to my self-hosted domain name?

    Not really, no. The only advantage of that at this point is to provide a clean redirect from example.wordpress.com to example.com

    I don’t want anyone going to my wordpress.com URL because there’s nothing there.

    To fix that, make the WordPress.com blog private via Settings -> Reading in its Dashboard.

    I have since gone to my account settings and made my self-hosted domain the primary website, so I hope that fixes the problem.

    Yes, that will fix the problem you described.

    So basically, if I DON’T plan to migrate my blog over to wordpress.com, do I simply connect through Jetpack and be done?

    Yes, correct. ??

    Thread Starter readdiversebooks

    (@readdiversebooks)

    Woohoo! Thank you so much for you help. :]

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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