How do I move an existing outside domain name TO WordPress?
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I want to move my domain name FROM another registrar to WordPress. It is about to expire in a week, and I want to know the price, storage space and the steps to transferring the files. (340 files, total 27MB).
I already have a free WP blog (username . wordpress.com) with only 17 of allowed 3072 MB (1%) used, but want to keep my own domain name for the files I would bring over.
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You cannot use a custom domain for media files. It will always be of the form whatever.wordpress.com .
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Do “media files” include images? All of my files are text and images. (No music or video or anything).
I wouldn’t mind the images changing, EXCEPT that it will mess up the links I have made to them (both in my text files, which can be changed, though it will be a lot of work going through all of them to change the links), as well as places outside of my domain where I have hotlinked them. -
OK, what I was thinking of was not to map to it, but re-register here. (I want to leave the other registrar and replace it with WordPress).
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Yes, media files include images. If you want the hotlinks to continue to work, you’ll have to keep the domain name where it is and pay them for hosting basically forever.
WP.com does not accept incoming domain transfers, so you’ll have to either renew with your current domain registrar or let it go and then just hope and pray you can grab it via your WordPress.com dashboard when it becomes available, before a squatter grabs it. I do not recommend that.
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What’s a “squatter”? I don’t think anyone will snatch up my domain name that fast.
How would I grab it via the dashboard? Would the domain name become available as soon as it expires at the other place?
If this works, then what would I do? Transfer all the files over? -
It takes up to 60 days for a domain name to revert to the wild – much of that time the domain name DOES NOT WORK – so all your traffic goes into the dumper. A squatter buys up domains and holds them hostage – all they need to do is look at that you had the domain – buy it for a few bucks and sell it back to you for many hundreds when you finally figure out that all your traffic is broken.
Transfer the registration to a different registrar or trust us you will be sorry
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OK, if I change the extension (let the current extension go, and just start it with the new extension on WP), that would be the basic rules for having a custom domain, right?
So then how would I go about transferring the files over? And would I still have to use Filezilla to upload new revisions when editing, or could it be directly edited the same way I edit a blog entry?
And will from-scratch HTML documents look the same as they do now, or will they be forced into WP templates?Also, most of the intradocument links to the images, since they were on the same domain, only use the filename and image extension. If they must be on the WP domain, then would the whole http : // name . wordpress be required to be in the link, or is it possible a simple a href=”filename. jpg/png etc” would still work?
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