Oy Vey. Redirecting from WordPress.com to my Domain
Right after typing the above title, I remembered that, today, my friends of the Jewish faith celebrate Rosh Hashanah. So it’s probably very fitting that the title would be in Yiddish.
From Flickr, via 106fm Jerusalem. I hope that's what it says!
After four calls to GoDaddy and a few hours toasting with this hot (literally) laptop on my thighs, I have succeeded in migrating my humble Wordpress.com blog to this new home… onlinestrategy.ca. Don’t ask me how I was able to get this domain name to begin with. The stars were aligned. Or I had good karma at that point. Or it was meant to be.
At any rate, it’s done. There’s still a lot of work ahead – but that’s at least some progress.
By why “Oy Vey”, do you ask? Because it was an arduous process, at least for me! The first person I spoke with at GoDaddy intended to be informative, but what he told me was inaccurate (I was told that it was simply a question of importing content from WordPress into onlinestrategy.ca). Of course, that would have meant that the couple of links or so that I have going to onlinestrategy.wordpress.com would not be permalinked to onlinestrategy.ca. Not good. Hey, I know a couple of links may not be much, but one of them is from hummingbird604.com, from a blog post I wrote for Raul. You bet that I’ll try to maintain that link!
After that, I proceeded to make a search on Google for “redirect wordpress.com to domain”. And somehow I ended up finding this slightly outdated, but save-the-day kind of gem: a PDF by the folks at Blog-Well.com. It contains instructions on how to get redirect a Wordpress.com blog to a new domain, in terms that I could understand. And even a few screenshots, for good measure.
I will try and publish a post with an updated version of the instructions provided by Blog-Well.com. It will probably save your from having to call technical support at GoDaddy.
Thank you, Blog-Well.com. Merci beaucoup. Muito Obrigada. Todah Raba. You guys made me one happy girl. Like I said in one of my tweets – it’s an insignificant step for mankind – but a GIANT leap for me.