Open Letter to Automattic
Dear Automattic,
Thank you for, quite simply, the best blogging platform around. WordPress.com is a great way to befriend you.
However…
My back’s killing me, my brain hurts, and my eyes are rolling on the floor somewhere…
Here’s the thing:
I want to move from WordPress.com to GoDaddy using WordPress.
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Setting up WordPress on GoDaddy – painless
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Exporting – no sweat
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Importing – still not sweating
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Hacking together our own theme – done
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Automattically redirecting to our new domain – no way Jose!
Not only that, I have spent 90 minutes reading countless forum comments to come to the realisation that the “Domains” offering only goes one way; the opposite direction of where I need to go ;-)
Yes, I can put up a “I have moved” post, but this is so Web 1.0, and code is poetry – don’t you know?
Other like minds are in need of it too – see?
So Automattic, when you have some spare time, please please please fix it. If not, then please have a big red ”no we do not provide this” on the “Domains” page :-)
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PS: The X-hacker comment is very cute :-)
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Did you try adding the domain to this blog, making it your primary URL, and then switching the DNS back to GoDaddy? It should redirect all visitors from blogwell.wordpress.com to the new domain on the new host, at least as long as you pay the 10/yr for parking.