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  burtsboutique · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 5:09 pm

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  I have a domain, hosted through bluehost.com. I don’t need all the bells and whistles and would just like to use my custom domain… but have it hosted with wordpress.com with those features.

  Is this the same as remapping the domain?

  Will wordpress.com essentially be “hosting” the website?

  Thanks.

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  burtsboutique · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 5:10 pm

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  I have a domain, hosted through bluehost.com. I don’t need all the bells and whistles and would just like to use my custom domain… but have it hosted with wordpress.com with those features.

  Is this the same as remapping the domain?

  Will wordpress.com essentially be “hosting” the website?

  Thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  Not “remapping”

  you need to move the contents to WordPress.COM, then map your custom domain name, and make arangements for email if you use custom email with the custom domain name

  Move a Blog

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

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Email for custom domain names

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  PS – also read the Terms of Service – bit different here – you can’t sell your own ads and such on WordPress.COM

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  burtsboutique · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 6:15 pm

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  I see. Thank you.

  I’ve been looking to lower the cost of the website as I really don’t use the shopping cart feature. This may be an option but I’d also loose the ability to customize it.

  -John

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2014 at 6:30 pm

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  You can use a contact form and then PayPal for payments – you make your custom furniture so i would think that not a lot of projects are done so should not be a big loss – and yes the hosting here is easy

  selling items you make yourself is fine