moving my website to wordpress

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  gikolberg · Member · May 10, 2020 at 5:39 pm

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  I have a site now and I would like to improve it and move the hosting to WordPress. Must I use a different domain name I now have while I am building the new site?
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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · May 11, 2020 at 3:45 pm

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  Hi there,

  What you could do is create a site with a free WordPress.com blog address. You are assigned a .wordpress.com or a .home.blog subdomain whenever you create a site with WordPress.com, so you can just use that as the domain as you build the site and determine whether or not this is the platform you want to use. Once you are done developing the site, you can make the decision to transfer the domain over:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/incoming-domain-transfer/

  map an existing domain:

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

  Or even creating a new one:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/register-domain/

  Hope this helps,