GoDaddy to wordpress.com?

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  allisonmarievaughan · Member · May 21, 2013 at 11:26 pm

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  Hi, I had a WordPress site hosted on GoDaddy. I let the webhost expire on purpose. I have an export of the WordPress site data. I also have my own domain name (registered with GoDaddy and not expired) – sunkissedcakes.com. I would now like to re-create this site on wordpress.com. But I already linked a Sun Kissed Cake site on wordpress.com to the GoDaddy hosted side (which no longer exists). How can I make the Sun Kissed Cakes site that I have already entered point to wordpress.com? Thanks.

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

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  auxclass · Member · May 21, 2013 at 11:30 pm

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  Do this – Domain Mapping

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

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  allisonmarievaughan · Member · May 22, 2013 at 1:25 am

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  Step 2 says “go to Store → Domains in your blog’s dashboard”. I can’t. The link in wordpress.com to my blog’s dashboard is http://www.sunkissedcakes.com/wp-admin/ which doesn’t exist.

  From other forum posts it looks like I need to ask wordpress.com staff to manually unlink it. Thanks.

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  kardotim · Member · May 22, 2013 at 9:31 am

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  http://www.sunkissedcakes.com is a linked blog (through Jetpack) on your WordPress.com account. Let us know if you want us to remove that from your account.

  If you want a blog on WordPress.com, you can create one at http://wordpress.com/signup

  Please let us know if you need any further assistance!

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  allisonmarievaughan · Member · May 22, 2013 at 4:10 pm

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  I’d like to make sunkissedcakes.com a premium blog on wordpress.com. Could you help me with that? Thanks!

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  kardotim · Member · May 22, 2013 at 6:58 pm

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  First you need to create a blog on WordPress.com at http://wordpress.com/signup

  After that you can go to Store > Domains on your blog’s dashboard and follow the steps there.

  Please take a look at the following guide before going through the process.

  Let us know if you need any help.

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  allisonmarievaughan · Member · May 23, 2013 at 9:16 pm

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  I’m told that the blog I would like to create, sunkissedcakes, has been reserved. Why is that? Thanks.

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  kardotim · Member · May 23, 2013 at 9:22 pm

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  There is already an account under the name: “sunkissedcakes”. Which means that this account has the privilege to create a blog with that name and that’s why it’s reserved. Feel free to choose another name for your blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 23, 2013 at 10:29 pm

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  If you want to use a custom URL then the underlying URL doesn’t really matter, the whatever.wordpress.com URL. So just register ANY random URL. Then use domain mapping to attach your custom domain to it.