Confused & Burning Money

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  torkagear · Member · Jan 19, 2016 at 11:32 am

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  Hi, please help!

  Here is my situation.
  I am not great with online/computer stuff but not totally useless.

  I am starting a new company. I wanted to secure a domain name and business email for this.

  I googled this which led to me purchasing a URL and email with Google Apps.
  The site and email I wanted were http://www.example.com and @example.com.

  I spent $20sh to do this. Great, secured my business site.

  Then I went to create my site to link to this address. I am told that to achieve what I want I need WordPress. So I go to WordPress.com and create an account.

  I then am told by WordPress that I need to ‘map’ my URL. I pay my $20sh.
  (I don’t now understand how I am supposed to tell my URL provider to use WordPress?)

  On top of that I am then told that what I want to achieve with my website is through WordPress.org not WordPress.com… ahhhhh really?

  You could hopefully imagine how I might be confused.
  So what I want to know is,
  1. How do I set up wordpress.org
  2. Make it my website source for my Google purchased URL.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  micawbr · Member · Jan 24, 2016 at 3:47 am

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  Hi,
  Hi,
  You won’t be using the domain mapping on WordPress.com, so cancel that and get a refund. Go to the Manage Purchases page, look for the domain mapping, and click “Cancel and Refund”.

  Since you’re going with a WordPress.org solution, please visit their site for information about setting up your site: https://wordpress.org

  If you have questions, their support forum is here: https://wordpress.org/support/

  If you don’t have a username at that forum, you’ll need to register before posting. For more information about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, visit: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/