Get home and subdomain mapping

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  tonylinde · Member · May 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm

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  I have my own domain, tonylinde.com, at which I used to maintain a website but found it too tiresome to manage. I’d like the domain itself to map to a single page here on wordpress, and a subdomain, blog.tonylinde.com, to map to my existing blog. Is this possible and if so, how can I set it up? Does it require two lots of payments?

  Thanks,
  Tony.

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

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  airodyssey · Member · May 7, 2011 at 4:20 pm

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  Hi Tony. You can map a subdomain to an existing WordPress.com. See here please:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
  And yes, it requires payment both to the domain registrar’s and to WP.com.

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  tonylinde · Member · May 7, 2011 at 6:42 pm

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  Hi. Yes, I saw that but want tonylinde.com to point to a page in wordpress, and the subdomain blog.tonylinde.com to point to the blog postings in wordpress.

  t.

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  auxclass · Member · May 8, 2011 at 2:42 am

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  @tonylinde – read the link from @airodyssey – when it is all done – your old site would still be there unchanged and your blog will be at blog.tonylinde.com – and with the magic of the internet and WordPress.COM you would do all your blogging here – just your visitors would be hard pressed to see that your blog was really here and not on your old site.

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  tonylinde · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:36 am

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  I’ll try again. I want to add a page to my wordpress site and this will be where anyone who browses to http://tonylinde.com will land, and I want the subdomain http://blog.tonylinde.com to point to my wordpress blog posting summary.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:50 am

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  You cannot map a TLD (top level domain) such as tonylinde.com to one part of a blog, and then a subdomain such as blog.tonylinde.com to another part of a blog.

  You can map the TLD to the entire site here, or you can map the subdomain to a site here, but you cannot map both to the same site.

  You could possibly map the TLD to one site here and then the subdomain to another site here, but it would cost you two domain mapping upgrades, one for each site here. Please though if you are thinking of doing this, verify directly with staff that this can be done: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ .

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  tonylinde · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:59 am

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  Many thanks @thesacredpath for the help.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 8, 2011 at 9:25 am

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  You are welcome.