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  vivmosshotmailcouk · Member · Oct 9, 2019 at 2:55 pm

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  want to convert current site to wordpress without losing current until new is ready to go live

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 9, 2019 at 5:04 pm

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  Hi there,

  That is not an issue – 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 developing the site, you can make the decision to transfer the domain over:

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

  map and 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,

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 9, 2019 at 5:13 pm

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  Also, the site is initially private as you build it, and when you are ready to launch the site, there is a button you use to launch and make it public.