Newbie needs help moving html site and domain

  • Unknown's avatar
    uclachris · Member ·

    so i have a straight html site on doteasy.com and was thinking of upgrading it to wordpress. after a month using wordpress.com i am love the service and quickly completed the site using the free version.
    if i want wordpress.com to host the site can u all also take over my domain and repoint it tom my new site.
    currently the site is: flamenco-inesita.com hosted on doteasy.
    but i really want that domain to point to:
    the site i just built: uclachris.wordpress.com

    what is the cost for the transfer and the hosting cost. and can you do it all for me. thanks.

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    The only means of importing content into a wordpress.COM hosted blog is via an XML import file. Please see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

    re: mapping an existing domain
    WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.

    Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made, it and the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.

    Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium upgrade bundle.

    In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.

    If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

    It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

  • The topic ‘Newbie needs help moving html site and domain’ is closed to new replies.