Cancel Wordprss.com, back to .org
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How do I cancel my WordPress Upgrade (to Com) prior to renewal billing ion the 23rd? I can find nothing clear on this anywhere.
Regards,
Chuck BillowThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What is the URL starting with http:// for the blog in question?
Which upgrade exactly did you purchase for that blog?
When exactly did you purchase that upgrade? -
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The upgrade was from WordPress.org to .com. It was / is a six month trial. Personal issues kept me from even beginning to develop the site, so I want to NOT be billed on renewal, and, I guess that means go back to WordPress.org.
The support info I found says if you delete a domain or (?), it will be gone forever. I want to keep the name, so that won’t work. I set my billing to NOT auto renew, so will that be enough?
The URL / Blog is
which I would then put back to
http://www.blogclog.wordpress.com
Regards,
Chuck Billow -
Your domain name was registered through godaddy, so that has to be renewed and managed through them.
The website that shows up on componentics.com is located at 1and1 hosting (that would have been a self-hosted wordpress.ORG site if you had developed it). The site and account at 1and1 hosting is in no way connected to wordpress.COM so if you allow it to expire, it will have no affect whatsoever on http://www.blogclog.wordpress.com .
You can have your site here, http://www.blogclog.wordpress.com, appear under your componentics.com domain name with the domain mapping upgrade from here at wordpress.com. What you would need to do is go to godaddy’s domain management panel and point that domain name at the wordpress.COM servers. See the following for instructions on doing that. The domain mapping would cost you $12 per year.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
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I’m a little (?) confused.
I understand and know all the underpinnings of the name GoDaddy and 1and1 — (I ought to get these all consolidated!).
The more I talk this through, the dumber I feel — and undoubtedly sound!
The redirection I guess is where my confusion starts. The trial period I am just now coming to the end of — through WordPress.com (?) — is that a redirection? Back to my Blog at WordPress.org? So then, if the user puts in http://www.componentics.com where the end up is http://www.blogclog.wordpress.org?
Because as of this moment, if I put in http://www.Componentics.com, I end up at the draft sheet, whereas inputting http://blogclog.wordpress.com brings me to my WordPress.org. Blog — yes? — even though it is actually showing as wordpress.com…?
That all seems clear — except, that I had thought that the six month trial period was so that inputting Componentics.com would take me to my .org blog. That doesn’t seem to be the case.
Now, (or as of the 23rd) I’m not certain I see what would change — go back — to the way things were if they already seem to be that way anyway. What or how would they?
I TOLD you I was confused or just out to lunch!
This whole epic started because I thought more control over site design would be great — thank goodness I never moved my email!
Regards,
Chuck Billow -
The site at 1and1, if you had developed it would have been a wordpress.ORG blog.
Your site here at the wordpress.COM hosting service is http://blogclog.wordpress.com/ . If you domain map your http://componentics.com domain name to your your site here, then http://www.blogclog.wordpress.com/ will appear under http://componentics.com . That is what people will see in their browser address bars and where they will go to see your blog.
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Don’t mind me, I’m just slow…but I THINK I may be starting to understand / remember:
I bought an annual redirect ($12), I thought, for the purpose of having people type in Componentics.com and end up at blogclog.wordpress org. This does not seem to be in place.
Is that an issue by itself that is separate from using WordPress.com?
Is it a COM or ORG upgrade?
The WordPress.com is / was so that I can / could have more flexibility in my design — an alternative hosting service to 1and1?
Assuming then that my six month trial expires at COM (I sent the payment method to manual), is it separate from my ORG Blog? Will that remain visible and editable?
Also, if I read correctly, the COM site doesn’t “vanish”, but rather just becomes inaccessible?
Chuck
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Generally you would buy the redirect upgrade to redirect http://blogclog.wordpress.com/ to your .ORG installation at http://componentics.com/ when you move to a self-hosted blog, but give that your blog here is basically blank, there would not have been much reason to do that redirect.
The installation at 1and1 would have been the more flexible (that would have been the .ORG installation). You have the .com and .org backwards. .com (this site http://blogclog.wordpress.com/ ) would have been, or is, the more restricted.
The 6-month trial was a 1and1 hosting thing and is not in anyway connected with wordpress.com.
If you do not renew the hosting at 1and1, and do domain map http://componentics.com/ to http://blogclog.wordpress.com/ , then http://componentics.com/ will become inaccessible. This site, http://blogclog.wordpress.com/ , is completely separate and will continue to exist unless you delete it.
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