I want to keep my free blog and start a separate, new site (with paid domain) in a plan.
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I’m trying to buy a domain to start a new site and retain my free blog that I’ve had for 8 years. Everytime I go through the process it calls my actions an upgrade. It’s not an upgrade, it’s meant to be a separate site. Can a person only have one site on WordPress?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi!
To get a second site using your existing email address, follow the instructions here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-a-new-site-or-blog-to-an-existing-accountThen add an upgraded plan to that site, which includes a domain credit to purchase a domain.
Hope that helps!
dave -
Thanks for replying Dave.
I’ve have probably made mistakes and lack the knowledge to follow some of the explanations in support however: I have (more than once) followed the path you have given. I stopped the process just before paying because it wasn’t what I wanted. I now have extra sites (wordpress.com in all) with a different, irrelevant name to my original and read that anyone who visits these sites will be referred straight to the primary site ie my continuing blog. They’ll have to be deleted later.
I want to start a different site on WordPress (a website, maybe with blog component) with different content, different email and different objectives.
I didn’t think this would be an issue but it is. I can’t seem to find any simple explanation or answer to my confusion ie. Is a person allowed to have a separate site on WordPress? All the writing in support says website OR blog, not both.
This might explain the red letters when I ignorantly started to buy a plan using a different email. I guess the IP has something to do with it? It felt like I was in trouble.
I have a domain picked out, an email address for this site and I’m ready to buy a plan with domain etc and slowly see how I go.
Now I’m looking at having to buy the domain and site elsewhere. I don’t want to do that, I don’t see why I’d need to do that.
Regards and thanks again, Bruce Rouse
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Hey Bruce
Thanks for bringing up a point that really isn’t covered well in the WordPress documentation. In simple terms, a Blog is a Website!
A good explanation of that is found here:
https://www.trishjones.com/blog-vs-website/I bet the red letters you saw when trying to buy an upgraded plan were a warning that the email you were entering did not match the email your page is registered under.
You can certainly find a hosting provider who will install WordPress and sell you a domain – they are abundant. For me, the deciding points are:
- What do i want to use the site/blog for?
- Do i have the knowledge and skills to accomplish this?
- How much of the setup and configuration do i want to do?
- What services are essential to maintaining my web presence?
- How much am i willing to pay for those services?
If you want to become the next Amazon.Com, then hosting here at WordPress.Com is not going to work well for you. There is just too much you have to work around, and you will end up with hosting much of your content at another provider anyhow.
If you want to publish your opinions, viewpoints, photos, artwork, recipes, show off your dogs, kids, football team, car, motorcycle, etc without having to get way down in the weeds with computer stuff, then having your site here at WordPress.Com makes perfect sense.
You might want to shut down the extra unneeded/unrelated sites and stick with one or two in the interest of simplicity. The instructions found in this document are step by step and easily followed:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/If you want to integrate an email address into your site, WordPress.Com does not offer Email service, but it is a simple thing to associate an email with your domain hosted at WordPress.Com. Instructions for doing that are found here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
and my own domain uses Zoho mail, as described in that document, though i suspect we are getting a little ahead of ourselves here.Since you mentioned the possibility of hosting your content (another term for webpage/blog), i will put these links out here in case you want to make a little comparison:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ explains many of the differences between self-hosted and sites hosted at WordPress.Com
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_vs_WordPress.com is a more who is who explanation.Hope that helps!
dave -
Thanks again Dave for the answer and your time. That’s quite an effort.
I am aware that a blog is a website. That hasn’t been an issue.
What I still don’t know is whether or not a person is allowed to have two (or more) separate sites on WordPress.
Your red letter observation seems to agree with that but not answer it.
Perhaps I’m missing something here (very possible), but if I want to have two separate blogs or two separate websites (with/without blog page), or a blog and website, or three or four sites of whatever different nature;
Can I Do It?
If I want a site for classic cars, macro photography, food and horse training, it seems they must all come under one title. How can that be?
Therefore, a person can only have one site with all others relevant and beneath it? I don’t understand.
The email for my proposed site is a Gmail account with Google, my site is to be photography, specifically of buildings, and I want to pay to use a custom domain and plan on WordPress. I do not want to do my own hosting, email etc of which I know less than zero.
So my question still stands. If I want to pursue my custom plan, it seems that I have to choose between it or deleting my unrelated blog if I wish to remain with WordPress. I can’t do both.
Bit like Facebook is it, where you are only supposed to have one account?
If a person could have more than one site on WordPress I would have been up and running two days ago.
I must be missing something. It doesn’t seem logical.
Thanks again,
Regards and disappointment, Bruce Rouse -
Hi Bruce
You can have many sites under different accounts at WordPress.Com, each with its own domain and plan.
You can have several all under one account at WordPress.Com, each with a different plan, and with different domain names.It’s up to you how you want to do it. I recommend the many sites under one account just to keep it simple.
I tried upgrading using a different email but did not get red letters. If you could try again and cut and paste what the text of the letters is, that would help.
Building photography huh? I am always fascinated by the signs painted on old abandoned buildings that once advertised the businesses within the buildings that harken to earlier days and the prosperity they once represented. Always thought they would make a cool coffee table book.
best,
dave -
Hi Dave.
If that’s the case It sounds as though I’m doing it incorrectly. Back to the drawing board to find my faults. I know how to cut and paste but don’t understand the reference here.
I read in an older forum of a member or two experiencing the same issues as me. When I’d go for final step of payment it would show another name for my blogsite and so I’d cancel out only to still get the site anyway.
The writings in support say that visitors to any of the other sites will automatically be referred to the main site.
As for the buildings, maybe I’ll put up some that will catch your attention one day. That is if I get my site going. The domain will probably be sold before I do it. Might have to buy that first.Thanks again for your time Dave, I’ll read all your info again. Bruce
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