Building a wordpress site while my old site is still running

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  fitnesscanterbury · Member · Apr 28, 2017 at 1:16 am

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  Hi, I’m wanting to redesigned my business website as well as move it over to word press. What I would like to know, is it possible to build a new word press site while still running my existing site. Once the wordpress site is ready then transfer URL and hosting over to wordpress.

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  otpidusprime · Member · Apr 28, 2017 at 10:16 am

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  Hello @fitnesscanterbury,
  Yes you can build a site using self-hosted WordPress.ORG and then transfer the contents of the site to WordPress.COM.

  This official support guide covers all the information to move from WordPress.ORG to WordPress.COM: https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/
   

  Once the wordpress site is ready then transfer URL and hosting over to wordpress.

  Currently wordpress.com does not allow incoming domain transfer, but what you can do is point your domain to your wordpress.com site. But you will need a paid WordPress.COM plan to be able to do that.

  More information about it here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  re:Hosting
  Hosting is free for all plans(including the free plan) on WordPress.COM. There is only limitation to the amount of the space, which you can upgrade.

  Hope this helps 🙂

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 28, 2017 at 10:25 am

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  @fitnesscanterbury – Hi there, please also be aware that there are two flavors of WordPress: hosted WordPressdotcom (where we are ) and the open source WP (org) project at https://wordpress.org This support guide explains some of the differences: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You didn’t mention where you intend to host your new business site, but if
  you are building your business website on WordPressdotcom, you can change your current site’s privacy settings to Private until you are ready to launch. Here’s more on Privacy https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  There are many more features available in the Premium and Business upgrade plans. You can learn more about that on this page: https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  Let us know if you have any further question.