help with blog url

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  imnotdrunkpd · Member · Apr 17, 2015 at 9:38 pm

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  i set up a blog on host gator.and used ttheir blog p[latform.. i want to change to wordpress. i set up a blog at alanjackowitz.com/blog, howevver thats also the url ofr the new blog how to incoarporate

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  timethief · Member · Apr 17, 2015 at 9:43 pm

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  Hi there,

  WordPress.COM blogs and WordPress.ORG installs are different. WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums.

  To move your content see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-org

  re: mapping to an existing domain from a .wordpress.com blog
  Please read this first Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  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 every year.

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