Moving from WordPress.org to WordPress.com

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  neetikarao · Member · Jul 13, 2015 at 9:45 am

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  Hi,

  My wordpress.org website has been recently hacked. I would like to make the move from WordPress.org to WordPress.com with the same custom domain name.

  1. Do I need to pay additionally for the domain name, since the domain name has been paid for a year and I have used it for only 6 odd months?

  2. Does the wordpress account have features like email collection(mailchimp), social sharing, custom menus, etc?

  Thanks
  Neetika

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  brookedot · Member · Jul 18, 2015 at 4:38 am

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  1. Do I need to pay additionally for the domain name, since the domain name has been paid for a year and I have used it for only 6 odd months?

  You will need to purchase domain mapping for you WordPress.com site to use a custom domain which is already registered. You can find out more about that here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  2. Does the wordpress account have features like email collection(mailchimp), social sharing, custom menus, etc?

  We do have our own subscription module that allows visitors to subscribe to your site. If you would like to run a newsletter through mailchimp you will need to link to your sign up form on their site as we don’t allow forms to be embedded for security reasons.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/subscriptions-and-newsletters/#newsletters

  As far as social sharing, we have the Publicize as also found in Jetpack for self-hosted sites:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  We also support custom menus as this is a core WordPress feature:

  Menus