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citylifeorg · Member · Jun 4, 2020 at 2:08 am
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Hello,

Can I forward my Godaddy domain to my free WP site?

Thanks
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 4, 2020 at 3:37 am
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It’s my first day here and my website was working perfectly until now, please somebody help me…
staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 4, 2020 at 5:39 pm
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Hi –

No, you can’t connect the domain for free. It requires a personal hosting plan. See here: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ and https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 4, 2020 at 6:50 pm
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It’s not to connect domain, I know that, I’m gonna do eventually, but Godaddy offers a forward domain service to any URL
staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 4, 2020 at 8:54 pm
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That won’t work with how free sites are set up on WordPress.com. It’s probably domain masking that they’re offering. That’s not an ideal solution – it won’t allow your theme to work properly on mobile views, and other issues.
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 4, 2020 at 9:05 pm
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Yes its exactly what I’m experiencing right now, sometimes works and loads perfectly and sometimes not like right now as I’m typing, thank you
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 4, 2020 at 10:37 pm
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Yeah, masked domains don’t always work properly, and we can’t guarantee functionality under them.

To add a domain to your site here properly, we have two options:

Mapping allows you to keep the domain registered with your current domain registrar and direct it to your WordPress.com site: https://wordpress.com/support/domains/map-existing-domain/

A transfer would allow to manage both your site and domain from the same place: https://wordpress.com/support/move-domain/incoming-domain-transfer/
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 5, 2020 at 12:52 am
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Thank you so much
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 5, 2020 at 2:46 pm
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I just upgraded to Premium but I couldn’t transfer my domain from Godaddy cause it was registered a couple of days ago,

so I used the map domain feature but it keeps pointing to mywebsite.wordpress.com , I thought will point to mywebsite.com

This is normal or am I doing something wrong?
staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jun 5, 2020 at 5:37 pm
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Hi there,

With the Premium Plan, you should be able to update your mapped domain as the primary domain.

For information on setting your primary domain, please visit:

Domains

Thanks,
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 5, 2020 at 6:31 pm
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Again thank you so much
staff-doublebassd · Staff · Jun 5, 2020 at 6:36 pm
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Anytime!
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 6, 2020 at 6:40 pm
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One more thing… The way I set up the sidebar widgets on my pages is looking different when we click to read the post… and I can’t find a way to fix it and make it look all the same…
staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 7, 2020 at 5:22 pm
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That’s determined by the theme that you use. When I click on that post on your front page, https://citylifeorg.com/2020/06/07/an-interview-with-writer-and-lgbtq-activist-michael-musto/ , I am able to see widgets loading on the right hand side of the page. Do you not see that as well?
citylifeorg · Member · Jun 7, 2020 at 5:35 pm
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Yes, I’ve been learning, I found the way to fix it last night, thank you…

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