Domain mapping for $13
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I want to map a domain that I own to my WordPress site. Their support site says this option is available for $13. But… when you follow instructions to map a domain, it requires a Premium plan for $99. How can I get the $13 option to work?
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Hi there,
Domain mapping can only be added to a site as part of a paid plan. Adding additional domain mappings on top of those already in your plan costs $13, but the first one must be as part of a plan:
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I don’t mind purchasing the lowest plan for under $3/month, but it appears that my only option for domain mapping is the premium plan, which is more than I want to spend.
A colleague of mine uses a free WordPress account and maps her website for the $13 yearly fee. I wonder if this a new requirement to have a Premium plan…. If there’s a way to utilize domain mapping at a lower cost plan, please advise. Thanks!
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You can use the personal plan for domain mapping. In that case you need to purchase the plan first by going to My Site ->Plans, then you can add the mapping afterwards.
Older accounts had the ability to buy mapping as a standalone upgrade, and as long as they keep renewing it they can use the existing upgrade. But for a bit more than a year now domains can only be added as part of a plan for new upgrades.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
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That’s quite unfortunate.
As an amazing organization that commendably calls its support representatives “Happiness Engineers,” WP.com should know that this business decision will most likely make many of its otherwise-loyal customers LESS happy. :-(
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This is quite unfortunate add very misleading. I went to redirect a domain name and saw the $13 and let my non profit know and they gave me the go ahead but then went I went to actually do the mapping I realized it was going to be $99 instead of the original $13 reported to my non profit. Very unfortunate.
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A site redirect and a domain mapping are two completely different things. The Site Redirect does cost $13 a year, and is used if you want to direct traffic away from a WordPress.com site to a completely different site.
If you want your WordPress.com site to show at a domain you bought somewhere else, you need domain mapping instead. It is effectively the exact opposite of a redirect, as it sends traffic from a custom domain to your site and lets your site show at that domain in a browser. Domain mapping can only be purchased as part of a plan, but you can use the Personal Plan of $35.88 instead of the Premium Plan of $99 to do that as well.
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Thank you for the explanation as i’ve been working on mapping my domain for a few hours now at the previous rate. Quite sad though that the previous domain mapping service of WP at $13.00 only was discontinued.
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