Site Redirect (2024)

Are you leaving WordPress.com? With the Site Redirect upgrade, you can redirect your .wordpress.com site address(and all your permalinks) to your new domain name.

Use a site redirect when you are leaving WordPress.com and wish to send traffic from a WordPress.com site address to a new domain.

If you are not leaving WordPress.com, and you wish to redirect your .wordpress.com subdomain address to your site’s domain, you do not need a site redirect. Instead, set your primary site address in your domain’s settings.

If you wish to redirect a domain you own to WordPress.com, connect or transfer the domain to WordPress.com instead.

If you wish to redirect a domain in your WordPress.com account to another site on WordPress.com, move the domain. If you wish to redirect a domain in your WordPress.com account to another site elsewhere, change the name servers or DNS records.

To set up a site redirect, follow these steps:

1. Open the site redirect screen here.
2. Enter the new domain or URL address where you want your WordPress.com traffic to be redirected.
3. Click the “Go” button.
4. Confirm your purchase and complete the checkout process.
5. Select the Site Redirect as the primary address by going to Upgrades → Domains (or Hosting → Domains if using WP-Admin), clicking the … next to the domain, and selecting the “make primary site address” option.

Site redirects can only point to a non-SSL (http://) URL. If you have SSL set up on the site you’re redirecting to, the http-to-https redirect will be handled on that site’s end.

For the site redirect to work correctly on pages besides the homepage, the permalinks on the new site (the one you’re redirecting to) should match those at WordPress.com. WordPress.com uses the following post permalink structure: http://example.com/2014/10/21/sample-post/. Visitors may see an error message if the new site does not use the same structure.

Site redirects can be used with domain names or directory paths but not individual files or pages. For example:

OK:https://yourdomain.com/support
Not OK: https://yourdomain.com/support.html

If you want to turn off the redirect for a while but don’t want to delete it, make your default WordPress.com address your site’s primary address instead of the redirect.

You can turn on the redirect anytime by returning to this screen and setting the site redirect URL as the primary address again.

To delete aredirect:

1. Visit your site’sdashboard.
2. Navigate toUpgrades→Domains (or Hosting → Domains if using WP-Admin).
3. Click on the site redirect.
4. Select the “Delete” option.

You can also remove the site redirect from the Purchases screen.