WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Renewing Blog/Name Change http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Renewing Blog/Name Change en Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 catrymer on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137923 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:40 +0000 catrymer 1137923@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,

I concur that letting your domain expire will not break your images with your old WordPress.com site name. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

Best!

]]> siciliannabeauty on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137561 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:20:04 +0000 siciliannabeauty 1137561@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Definitely don't want to go through any image issues.
Thanks for your help! :)

]]> tandava108 on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137558 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:18:49 +0000 tandava108 1137558@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes that's right. You still need the iheartmakeupart.wordpress.com blog to exist for the media files, but no domain maping or redirect is needed.

At some point you could move all your images to the new blog if you wanted to be rid of the old one completely, but this is time-consuming and error-prone. I actually did this and after I deleted my old blog I was finding broken images in old posts for months!

]]> siciliannabeauty on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137554 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:15:20 +0000 siciliannabeauty 1137554@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So you're saying I can let the redirect expire, just not delete the entire link right?

]]> tandava108 on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137553 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:13:31 +0000 tandava108 1137553@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Since the media files are accessed via the heartmakeupart.wordpress.com address and not the domain-mapped address you won't lose them when the domain-mapping expires. I always wondered why media is accessed via the .wordpress.com URL even in a mapped blog - this must be why!

Just don't delete the old wordpress.com blog, as you do need that still!

]]> siciliannabeauty on "Renewing Blog/Name Change" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/renewing-blogname-change#post-1137548 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:06:58 +0000 siciliannabeauty 1137548@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Last year, I went through a name change. I went from http://www.iheartmakeupart.com to http://www.siciliannabeauty.com
I've redirected iheartmakeupart to siciliannabeauty. iheartmakeupart is coming up for renewal- I don't want to renew it but my media files still read iheartmakeupart.wordpress.
If I let the redirect expire, am I going to "lose" the images or go through any other issues with the current site (siciliannabeauty)?

Sorry if this is confusing!

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