I seem to have two sites. I only want one.

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    paula1685 · Member ·

    Ok! Who has the instructions?

    I want 1 x live website that meets my needs – How hard can it be?
    I have bought a domain at 123-Reg and web hosting at Bluehost.
    I made a site at wordpress and paid for my webname to point to my wordpress account.

    I seem to have two wordpress sites – do I even need one? I just want a site hosted (got to say it was easier years ago with pc software) and live.

    What do I do? I am really thinking of cancelling everything except the domain name and starting again – help!

    I’ve paid Bluehost but not sure now if I needed to), 1 x domain (bought at 123-reg.co.uk). I went to Bluehost because I thoughtit was recommended by wordpress. I bougth a theme at Envato that meets my needs perfectly.

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    feldfforscher · Member ·

    hi paula-

    I want 1 x live website that meets my needs – How hard can it be?

    but i assume you want everything to appear as 1685.biz (a.k.a. “mydomain.com”) and now it looks like you have 1685.biz and 1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com (a.k.a. mydomain.com

      and

    mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com)?

    I have bought a domain at 123-Reg and web hosting at Bluehost.
    I made a site at wordpress and paid for my webname to point to my wordpress account

    …and when you type 1685.biz it is forwarded to 1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com and this is the adress you see in the line?

    i´m not 100% sure, but login to your admin account on wordpress,
    to the settings of the site you set up (1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com) Network Admin >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Domains
    look for >> New Domain option or add domain you already own (Price should be 13.00 €) and afterwards the domain mapping should almost be done.
    the final step to do, then is go back to >> Domains >> Change primary and make “mydomain.com” your primary adress and click >> save button.

    now everything should be available at “mydomain.com”

    so far so good, but there´s one thing i do not know, as i have a similar problem: where is the content?

    -if i pay the 13 € for the domain mapping to make it all available at “mydomain.com”, is the content hosted for free on wordpress?
    (then i guess it is like a merger of two firms, now having one address, which would basically mean i do not need an extra webhosting)

      or

    -do i need to host the content on my server by myself and “clone” it to “mydomain.com”, by installing an up-to-date backup copy of “mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com” (which would mean there are two sites, “domain.com” and “mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com”containing the same content.)? if so- are they synchronized?

    hope i could help a little-
    Christian

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    feldfforscher · Member ·

    hi paula-

    I want 1 x live website that meets my needs – How hard can it be?

    but i assume you want everything to appear as 1685.biz (a.k.a. “mydomain.com”) and now it looks like you have 1685.biz and 1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com (a.k.a. mydomain.com and mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com)?

    I have bought a domain at 123-Reg and web hosting at Bluehost.
    I made a site at wordpress and paid for my webname to point to my wordpress account

    …and when you type 1685.biz it is forwarded to 1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com and this is the adress you see in the line?

    i´m not 100% sure, but login to your admin account on wordpress,
    to the settings of the site you set up (1685dotbusiness.wordpress.com) Network Admin >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Domains
    look for >> New Domain option or add domain you already own (Price should be 13.00 €) and afterwards the domain mapping should almost be done.
    the final step to do, then is go back to >> Domains >> Change primary and make “mydomain.com” your primary adress and click >> save button.

    now everything should be available at “mydomain.com”

    so far so good: there´s one thing i do not know, as i have a similar problem: where is the content?

    -if i pay the 13 € for the domain mapping to make it all available at “mydomain.com”, is the content hosted for free on wordpress?
    (then i guess it is like a merger of two firms, now having one address, which would basically mean i do not need an extra webhosting)

      or

    -do i need to host the content on my server by myself and “clone” it to “mydomain.com”, by installing an up-to-date backup copy of “mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com” (which would mean there are two sites, “domain.com” and “mydomaindotcom.wordpress.com”containing the same content.)? if so- are they synchronized?

    hope i could help a little-
    Christian

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    paula1685 · Member ·

    Hi Christian,
    Thanks for responding. I think that I have paid too much but in any case I seem, somehow to have put my website online with my webhost and upload the new theme.

    Thanks P

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