Domain Mapping to an outside domain name – can I still edit my blog on wordpress

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    theresajbarker · Member ·

    Hello everyone,

    I would like to use an outside domain name I own (theresabarker.com) to display my wordpress.com blog )(theresabarker.wordpress.com). It looks like the way to do this is to purchase the DOMAIN MAPPING feature, which will map the wordpress.com blog to my outside domain name.

    Can I still edit my blog on wordpress.com afterward, even though it will be mapped to the outside domain name? Just wanted to check, didn’t find this info in the help files or in the forum.

    Thanks in advance.

    Theresa Barker

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    The answer is yes and it looks like you already succeeded as theresabarker.com is set as the primary domain for theresabarker.wordpress.com and will appear in the address bar when you visit the site.

    WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.

    Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made, it and the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.

    Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium upgrade bundle.

    In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.

    If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

    It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

    If required, to move content see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

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