I’d like my subdomain to URL to show as www.the-market-girl.co.uk.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tbso2020 · Member ·

    Hey! there,

    I have recently built a website for my client on WordPress on one of my subdomains. it is still showing as a URL. i want the URL to show as http://www.the-market-girl.co.uk which is hosted by google.

    WP.com: Yes
    Jetpack: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

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  • Unknown's avatar
    tbso2020 · Member ·

    I want to connect my website using a DNS record or a custom name server. to be able to show the-market-girl.co.uk (Preferred URL)

    right now it’s showing as themarketgirl.thebigshoutout.net

  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hey there,

    Ultimately, the site options would need to change the intended domain would need to be pointing toward the installation, of where the host is.

    Who are you looking to host the currently?

    The reason why I ask is because we often host multiple sites under the same account – and it’s possible to use domains and sub-domains in this manner – and we can easily work to import the site into WordPress.com

    Looking forward to hearing more on the project.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tbso2020 · Member ·

    Thank you ever so much for responding. I’m currently hosting at namecheap

    but my clients domain name that I want to eventually switch ie the-market-girl.co.uk is hosted at Google domain. Please help so I can do the needful.

    once again many thanks for your response.

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    I want to try and clarify what we do here, and how y’all are currently set up.

    On WordPress.com we provide a managed environment. This means that we handle all the back end details of the site. Things like back ups, updates, security, spam, seo, ssl, mobile optimization, top notch hosting specs, and sorting out any errors or bugs that pop up along the way. When you run a stand alone WordPress installation, like what y’all have set up, then all of those details fall on to you – so instead of being able to focus on content you spend a ton of time and frustration fixing these sort of issues.

    You’ll need to contact Google and ask them how to point the domain to a different hosting provider. Also talk to Name Cheap and find out what DNS changes need to happen in order for a domain to point to them ,and implement those change through Google.

    And, just so everyone is aware, you can connect a domain and import a site on WordPress.com with our personal plan. It’s $4/month. You get access to our support team and all of those built in features that are mentioned above. These are items y’all are going to have to invest time and money to research and implement when running a stand alone WordPress installation.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tbso2020 · Member ·

    Thank you so much for your response. Could you tell me if this personal plan supports one website or it’s subdomain as well?

    Many thanks in advance.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi @tbso2020, each plan supports one site, and takes care of its maintenance, spam filtering, security, etc, so if you have subdomain that requires a separate site, you would want to use a separate plan for that, then connect the subdomain using these steps. We’re here to help if needed.

    If it doesn’t really have to be a separate site, I have also seen folks combine the subdomain back into the main site as a subdirectory, then redirect the subdomain to the main one. And we can help if that’s your preference, too.

  • Unknown's avatar
    tbso2020 · Member ·

    Thanks for your kind response @supernovia I think I will purchase a personal plan for my own website ie thebigshoutout.net and would like to combine the subdomain ie the market girl.thebigshoutout.net into the main site as a subdirectory as you have mentioned. Then do you think I would be able to connect the subdomain to a Google hosted URL the-market-girl.co.uk?

  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    To clarify, it is your intention to move the site the-market-girl.co.uk over to our WordPress.com hosting? Our plans will only work on sites that are hosted with us directly.k We do not have a way to apply features to sites hosted with other providers.

    If you are trying to set up a subdomain for the-market-girl.co.uk but intend to host with Google Domains, then you would need the assistance of Google Domains support to create a subdomain and connect it to a subdirectory of the-market-girl.co.uk

    If you do plan to move the hosting of the-market-girl.co.uk over to us, you can migrate the site by following the steps here: https://wordpress.com/support/import-using-move-to-wordpress-com/

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    @tbso2020 I realized my suggestion didn’t take posts into account, so to clarify:

    Posts could go in a category for the old site. Pages could go into a top-level page to keep them grouped, which would end up looking like a subdirectory.

    The redirect would not automatically go from this.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com/this

    But it would automatically try to direct to the correct pages and posts based on their name. If you had identical page and post names on both sites, we’d want to figure something else out.

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