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What would 'upgrading' affect?

  1. zuzushafi
    Member

    Hi Guys

    I was wondering whether anyone could help me please.

    I want to 'upgrade' and change my wordpress.com to just zishaanshafi.com but would that mean I lost the ability to post on the WP Forum and the traffic/support that comes from being a wordpress.com user?

    Also I wanted to add a banner the top of my site and jazz the layout out a bit, I think this is called CCS?, but I wouldnt have a clue how to do it, but could pay someone asap to do it if they could.

    Thank you for reading :)

    The blog I need help with is zishaanshafi.wordpress.com.

  2. timethief
    Member

    When you purchase a domain name by purchasing a domain mapping upgrade nothing changes except the site URL ie. the domain name.
    see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#important-notes-before-upgrading
    and here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/02/do-i-need-a-domain/

    When you purchase a custom design upgrade you get Staff support for customizing the appearance of a theme > http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

  3. zuzushafi
    Member

    TT thank you so much for the reply! It was very helpful.

  4. timethief
    Member

    You're welcome. :)

  5. zuzushafi
    Member

    I left a comment on the second link, (your blog?), should I have posted it here, as it'd resolve my query. :)

  6. timethief
    Member

    Yes that's my blogging tips blog which is also linked to my username. I'm happy to hear my post was useful. :)

  7. zuzushafi
    Member

    Nice!

    I wanted to ask, that if I switch, do the urls which bring traffic to my site, become lost even for a period? ie there are some image links which generate a lot of traffic to it, which I am loathe to lose.

    The WP says one thing, but maybe I misunderstood your post, as it says another. :)

  8. timethief
    Member

    The reason we purchase domain mapping is so when the original URLs are clicked anywhere on the interent they seamlessly redirect to the same content under the new domain URLs.

  9. zuzushafi
    Member

    Ah I see! Thank you! All worries not resolved re this issue. you are a star! thanking you

  10. zuzushafi
    Member

    Thanks to you I am going to upgrade right now! :-D WP should give you a cut of the $18 lol

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