Can I switch from a paid domain back to a free wordpress one?

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  livingthriftyuk · Member · Aug 7, 2020 at 9:55 am

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  Hi,

  I’ve had a blog for 2 years now and my domain has come to the end of its period and I don’t want to renew. I like having my blog to share longer form content with my instagram followers but don’t want to keep shelling out money for it when I don’t have the time to make it profitable at all. I would like to go back to having a wordpress sub-domain that allows me to keep my content and post on the very occasional times I want to. I can’t seem to find any information about how to do this or if it is possible. I know most people swap the other way but this is the right choice for me at the moment.

  Thanks,
  Lisa

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Aug 7, 2020 at 10:13 am

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  Hi there!

  Your site is not hosted with WordPress.com. It is a site using the open-source WordPress software (from WordPress.org) but hosted with Bluehost. You would need to cancel any of the upgrades directly from their end.

  If you’d like to move your site to WordPress.com, you’ll want to follow these steps:

  https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

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  shubhamgmath · Member · Aug 7, 2020 at 10:20 am

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  Hi livingthriftyuk

  Your site http://living-thrifty.com/ is using WordPress.org platform.

  If you are referring any another site do let us know.

  This forum is not the right place to get help related to Org sites. The main role of this forum is the help the users with the issues related to the .com sites.

  You can also post your question in WordPress.org forum. Here is the link for same:
  https://wordpress.org/support/

  WordPress.org and WordPress.com are two different platforms. For more information on both the platform please refer to the link below: https://wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you want to move your site http://living-thrifty.com/ to the WordPress.com then please refer to the support document below:
  https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

  Hope this helps.