How do I host my blog and personal www. under the same domain with WP?

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    danykelly · Member ·

    I have domain hosted by (website.com) called danyellekelly.com. I would like this domain hosted at wordpress.com and I would like to move my (blog) danyekelly.wordpress.com to danyellekelly.com site which would I aim to have hosted by wordpress.com (essentially, so the two are together and traffic is directed to the one place not two). Then I would need to redirect traffic from danyekelly.wordpress.com to the new site that hosts both my blog from (danyekelly.wordpress.com) and my site danyellekelly.com (currently hosted website.com). Can you help me with this?

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    timethief · Member ·

    To move your content from http://danyellekelly.com/ into http:// danyekelly.wordpress.com see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

    If you would like to map to a domain that you own from your wordpress.COM blog you will need to set up domain mapping.

    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. In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain 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 blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog.

    Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

    In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

    You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.

    If you own a domain then see here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

    Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing 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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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi @danykelly,

    This should be relatively straightforward. You will just need to map your domain danyellekelly.com to your WordPress.com site as explained here:

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

    Then, your domain danyellekelly.com will reflect the content from danyellekelly.wordpress.com.

    To move your content from your current site at danyellekelly.com to danyellekelly.wordpress.com, you will need to export it and import it:

    Export Your Website’s Content

    Import a Website

    Once you finish that, all of your content should be hosted by WordPress.com.

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