Issues with inter-site links and domain

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    theodorewatsonley · Member ·

    I am having three issues, neither of which I am sure how to solve as I know nothing about website building. They may be interconnected, but I have no way of knowing whether or not this is true. For context, my website is a work portfolio.

    First issue:
    My domain name is supposed to be watsonley.com. But when you type this into a search bar, a coming soon message is posted. This makes no sense to me, because my website says it’s live on my WordPress dashboard. Additionally, my website always comes up as box5571.temp.domains/~watsonl5. This also makes no sense to me, because I have bought the domain name watsonley.com. In Bluehost, my site name is watsonley.com. Why isn’t my site using my actual domain name?

    Second issue:
    I have a menu bar with links to other pages on my website, such as my About page. When I created this menu, a hyperlink popped up from a drop down list to select the about page. But, when I am in preview mode and I click on the About link in the menu bar, a 404 message comes up. Why doesn’t the link to my About page work? Is this related to the box5571.temp.domains/~watsonl5 thing?

    Third issue:
    When I am in my WordPress account, and then click the small white icon in the top left corner to go to ‘My Site’, all it loads is an error message saying that an unexpected error has occurred. Why does this happen? Is there an issue with my account?

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

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

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi! Currently I see a “Forbidden” error at watsonley.com. It isn’t hosted here, so I can’t tell for sure what’s wrong, but you might ask your host to help you double check your site URL as that can likely solve the first to issues, and perhaps the third.
    https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/

    Then if you need more help with the free WordPress code, you’ll want to use these forums:
    https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

    Here’s the difference between the free WordPress software and our managed hosting services:
    https://get.wp.com

    Basically we provide SSL hosting, maintenance, security, spam filtering, etc. Our paid plans get direct support, and we have this community forum for those who use our free tier hosting. Let us know if you have any questions for us. Cheers!

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