Ignorant Blogger Needs Help with Doman Info

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    guanximag · Member ·

    We have a free blog on wordpress.com: guanximag.wordpress.com

    We have acquired the domain name: guanximag.com

    I would like it very much if, when people visit the URL guanximag.com, they experience the blog as it currently appears at guanxi.wordpress.com. By which I mean, we want to continue using the wordpress platform – themes, widgets, etc. – we just want to be able to drop the “wordpress” from our URL.

    I have been browsing about the forums, and it would appear that this is a service that WordPress offers through one upgrade or another…or downloading and installing the kit from wordpress.org…or something.
    Sadly, what I know about “domain mapping” (or any of the other technical aspects of site hosting / domain names / etc.) would fit on the back of a postage stamp with room left over.

    Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated. And please remember, if you choose to help with this, you are explaining this to someone who probably won’t know what the heck you’re talking about. Links to something on the order of “Domain Names for Dummies” may well be over my head.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    You can use the domain mapping upgrade here to accomplish that, and the URL that shows on your blog will be guanximag.com instead of guanximag.wordpress.com . The following support document will explain it.

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

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    guanximag · Member ·

    Thanks. I think I almost understand :-)

    Although I may well be back with more, and dumber questions.

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