Free Plan Domain Name Purchase
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I currently have a free plan with WordPress, but I want to buy my own domain name for $18/year. However, when I go to the add domain page, I am being forced to upgrade to the $8.25/month premium plan. How can I access the domain purchase only?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There are no monthly payment plans for upgrades here at wordpress.COM. Here we pay for annual subscriptions for upgrades in full at the time of purchase.
What is the URL you want to register?
re: purchasing your own custom domain or mapping an existing domain
The prices are found at > Dashboard > Store and here https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
All support docs are at http://support.wordpress.com
You can only purchase one year at a time.
Every upgrade applies to a single blog only and is a one-year subscription that requires renewal at years’ end.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.
You can simply publish a post providing the new URL to your existing subscribers and ask them to subscribe to the new URL.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
Your upgrade history will be here Dashboard > Store> My Upgrades
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/After you do the primary blog set up 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.
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P.S. I will also type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up to make sure you succeed. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Thank you for your response! I understand that the $8.25/month plan is paid annually and comes to $99/year. But I want to purchase the $18/year domain without the $99/year premium plan.
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As I said above, there is not to my knowledge, any monthly payment plans for upgrades here at wordpress.COM.
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I just want to make it clear that I’m not looking for a monthly plan. I am looking for a way to only purchase the $18/year domain name.
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I understand that and I am also subscribed to this thread so I know where this monthly payment bit is coming from.
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Domains are no longer available for purchase individually. They are included with WordPress.com Premium. This change has been made as we work to offer the best combination of value for users while still offering a completely free product for those who do not wish to purchase any upgrades.
A great way to go if you are not interested in WordPress.com Premium is to look into setting up a self-hosted WordPress.org site through a hosting provider such as Bluehost, GoDaddy, or Pressable.
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