Mapping an Existing domain, then what?

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  jaiho922 · Member · May 18, 2014 at 9:01 pm

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  Hi there! I recently purchased a domain from godaddy.

  I want to blog with wordpress, so I purchased the 13 dollar mapping domain thing, and now my primary domain is set to wordpress.

  I updated the nameservers to point to wordpress- NS1 NS2 etc etc

  but when I go on my website, jonathanho.ca- there is nothing.

  help?!

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

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2014 at 9:03 pm

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  http://jonathanho.ca/ is in need of content. :)

  By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

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  jaiho922 · Member · May 18, 2014 at 11:47 pm

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  Timethief!

  That is not the problem. The domain page is blank- even though I already mapped the domain, pointed it to the wordpress servers from my registrar ( godaddy ), but nothing still works.

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  galois · Member · May 18, 2014 at 11:51 pm

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  That is not the problem. The domain page is blank- even though I already mapped the domain, pointed it to the wordpress servers from my registrar ( godaddy ), but nothing still works.

  It works. Now you have to publish a post, a page.
  Something.

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  timethief · Member · May 19, 2014 at 1:21 am

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  Congratulations! The nameservers appear to be set up correctly for jonathanho.ca. jonathanho.ca is set as the primary domain for jaiho922.wordpress.com and will appear in the address bar when you visit the site.

  It can take as long as 72 hours for DNS changes to become widely available. If you’re still not seeing your site loading jonathanho.ca please wait a few more hours, clear your browser cache, and try again.

  I’m in Canada and the blog is correctly redirecting to your domain for me. See here to observe the progress https://www.whatsmydns.net/ and know it’s not uncommon for your own ISP to be last to flush their DNS cache.