mapping a site to wordpress.

  • Unknown's avatar
    hall94005 · Member ·

    Where do I find the DNS numbers for wordpress to map the existing site to wordpress.

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

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s name servers to the following values:

    NS1.WORDPRESS.COM

    NS2.WORDPRESS.COM

    NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

    However, if your registrar requires that you create A records, please note that our IPs change over time. Because of this, your domain might stop working at some point in the future. If that happens, please get in touch with us to find out the most current IPs and then update your A records, accordingly.

    If you still want to map your domain using A records, please be sure to create two records using these IP addresses:

    192.0.78.25

    192.0.78.24

    For more information on mapping a domain, please follow this link:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  • Unknown's avatar
    zrants · Member ·

    This is incredibly confusing. I am trying to help the owner set this up. can you please send me the message explaining the following.

    I set these up with the domain registrar.

    NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
    NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
    NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

    Now I am trying to map the domains. I keep getting an error message telling me that the domain already exists when I try to pay the $18.00 fee. (not really clear on he charges since I am trying to map to a domain that should be $13.00 according to the info.)

    Please contact me here:
    (email visible only to moderators and staff)

    question: Must I set this up as a business account in order to map it? That is not clear. I don’t want to GO PREMIUM. I just want to use wordpress as the domain.

    Thanks

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    What is the domain in question?

  • Unknown's avatar
    zrants · Member ·

    I figured it out.

    I set up a new admin account that opened me up to a whole new set up options, along with instructions.

    I set up a Home page and a post page and played around with the site a bit and then I was able to map the site to wordpress.

    WordPress needs to mention the need to set up an admin account and a home page before they send you to the “add Domain” section. I wasted a lot of time trying to “add the Domain” before I figured it out.

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Glad you got it sorted out.

  • Unknown's avatar
    zrants · Member ·

    Thanks for checking back. Now you have my explanation of the steps to refer back to should others need it.

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