Do you need to have wordpress if hosting your website elsewhere

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  timandjosh · Member · Mar 4, 2015 at 1:19 pm

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  Do you need to have wordpress if hosting your website elsewhere?
  I’m needing a plug in and I can’t have this on a free account. If I where to build the wordpress site I wanted I’d have to pay for wordpress. However can I only pay for aslong as it takes me to build the site then host it somewhere with Go Daddy as I’ve already paid for it and not pay for wordpress? Thanks.

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  pmciano · Member · Mar 4, 2015 at 3:42 pm

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  @timandjosh

  Please visit the following link for a clear explanation of the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

  If I’ve misunderstood the issue, or if you have any other questions, please let me know.