Does paying premium for a non-custom site cover a later change to a custom name?

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  jmaizlish · Member · Jun 6, 2014 at 11:12 pm

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  I’d like to use the discount price for premium when I sign up now so I can use some of the benefits (no ads, privacy) but would like to know whether that will enable me to use the premium status in a few weeks (very likely beyond the two weeks I could have the premium free trial) when I’m ready with a name to change to a custom domain site. Will that work?

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  jmaizlish · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 4:16 pm

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  I finally happened upon the dashboard and realized that the first signups are automatically for the free site, and that I had signed up for .net as I’d intended, and paid the premium fee.

  So I used the upgrade, entered my already paid name, criminaljusticeincontext.net, made it my primary site, and used the private registration option as I’d wanted.

  I believe this takes care of my two previous inquiries.
  I hope you catch this note before troubling to respond to them.

  Now I’ll see what the information pages tell me and try to figure out how to make the site do what I want it for: posting links and documents and occasionally audio, and perhaps some blogging.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 9, 2014 at 4:32 pm

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  Hi there,
  It see you have succeeded with domain mapping.

  re: front page error message

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.