WordPress URL and Site URL question

You do have to choose one that the site will resolve to. The other one can redirect to the primary one. Don’t change the URLs in the Settings unless you know what you are doing.

Thanks for your response. I suppose what I want to confirm before doing anything is that I’m not going to run into trouble with a change we’re about to make. Right now the blog is at, let’s say for sake of this question, complicatedname.com. We’d like to move it to simplename.com. We don’t want to lose traffic, however, from those who don’t yet know the new name. We’d rather not use a redirecting page and instead use either a cname or ptr in our DNS to just point to the same content for each domain. I really ultimately have two questions:

1) when we make the switch, I should change the WordPress address URL and the Site Address URL from complicatedname.com to simplename.com, right?

2) if a user comes in to the site on complicatedname.com after the change, will that user suffer errors (even though the wordpress address and site address point to simplename.com)?

Thanks for your help!

1) Yes

2) You should put a 301 redirect on complicatedname.com to refer all requests to simplename.com. You can probably do that through your hosting control panel.

Your site will have to be re-indexed, so if you don’t have an XML Sitemap plugin, install one after the change.

Thanks again for your responses. I suppose what we’re trying to do is not do a 301… so we can continue having the old address point to the live site (at least for a while) at the same time as having the new address point to the same live site. Will that cause a problem for wordpress? Thanks!