External Domain hosted by WordPress.com

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  babshacks · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 2:51 am

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  Hi, I am a bit stuck and I thought I would reach out for help.

  My domain is from godaddy.com. I pay wordpress to host my my domain so I could have access to its tools.

  I have seen that free wordpress sites cannot use external themes and cannot use the plugin feature. Since I am not on a free site and I pay to have my domain hosted, am I able to use external themes and plugins?

  If so, how? I have downloaded wordpress, but it’s just a zip file on my desktop.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 5:12 am

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  Since I am not on a free site and I pay to have my domain hosted, am I able to use external themes and plugins?

  You pay to have your domain MAPPED, not hosted. Domain mapping gets you only exactly what it says: a custom domain connected to your blog here. You still have a WordPress.com blog.

  In order to use plugins and external themes, you need to buy hosting elsewhere, install software from WordPress.org, buy and install a theme, add plugins, and then change the nameservers so your domain name points to that site.

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  babshacks · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 2:50 pm

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  Thank you! That’s very helpful.

  Do you have any recommendation of who l should go through to do that? I am very new to all this (obviously).

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  babshacks · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 3:31 pm

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  I’m now further confused because godaddy.com is a webhost. Godaddy.com is where my domain is from.

  I have my domain from godaddy.com.

  I then downloaded wordpress from wordpress.org, but all it is, is a zip file on my desktop?