New WordPress site not found

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  kevin1992kelly · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:11 am

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  Installed a WordPress site today with a domain/hosting etc.. Quite new to this but was told to wait 4 hours after I’m told it’s ready before I can access it. It’s been 4 hours and I still can’t find the site when I put in the domain etc. Any ideas if there’s a problem or can it take longer?

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  kevin1992kelly · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:15 am

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  the domain should be academyfootball.com
  I set it up from hostgator if that helps.

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  kevin1992kelly · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:16 am

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  academyfootballnow.com sorry,lol.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:16 am

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  Hello,
  That is not a free hosted WordPress.com blog. It`s Proudly powered by WordPress

  We provide support only for free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and you are posting to the wrong support forum. WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  kevin1992kelly · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:19 am

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  Okay thanks for the help

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 12:21 am

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  Here is a brief summary of steps we take to move to WordPress.org
  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

  6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/