Demo account/ Free trial?

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    alangibbons42 · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I am looking to get a WordPress website set up. I already have a domain purchased and will get this pointed to WordPress.

    This is the first time that I have used WordPress so I want to see if I am able to build a website first before I pay for the service. Can you please recommend the best way to go about this is ?

    I’m looking to just to create the website in a demo environment or some sort and when I’m happy with it I can then post it?

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    That is not an issue – what you could do is create a site with a free WordPress.com blog address. You are assigned a .wordpress.com or a .home.blog subdomain whenever you create a site with WordPress.com, so you can just use that as the domain as you build the site and determine whether or not this is the platform you want to use.

    Here is visual instructions on how to create a free .wordpress.com site:

    Step 1: Select email, username, and password.

    Step 2: select Blog for a .home.blog free site or Business for a .wordpress.com site.

    Step 3: Select the Topic of your site.

    Step 4: Type in the Title of site (optional).

    Step 5: Type in the full, exact site address you want including the .wordpress.com or .home.blog subdomain (ex: freeexamplesite.wordpress.com, freeexampleblog.home.blog). The first option should be the free site that you manually typed in. Click select next to that option.

    Step 6: At the very top, click the link that says: start with a free site.

    Once you are done developing the site, you can make the decision to transfer the domain over:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/

    Map an existing domain:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

    Or even create a new one:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/

    Hope this helps,

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