Offline Site

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    despertborabora · Member ·

    I just downloaded the app. I have an existing site and I don’t want to interrupt it while I figure out wordpress. So for now I want to re-create my site with wordpress offline and then change hosts when I have it ready. How do I do that?

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    byteofgrace · Member ·

    Hi there,

    What’s the URL of the site you are trying to re-activate or the URL of your existing site.

    Regards

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    The WordPress app cannot be used to create an offline site. It can only be used to manage an existing WordPress site, whether that site is hosted on WordPress.com or using the open source WordPress software at another host.

    Specifically for the WordPress desktop app, stand-alone WordPress sites will also need to be connected to WordPress.com via the Jetpack plugin. The WordPress apps for Android and iOS do not have that requirement.

    That said, there’s no reason why starting a new site would have any effect on your existing site. The only thing that will interrupt your current site is if you disconnect your domain from it, and there’s no need to do that.

    All sites on WordPress.com get a free WordPress.com or .blog subdomain when the site is created, that functions just like any regular subdomain, and your site is fully online and accessible at that subdomain (provided you set it to public).

    So you can experiment and build your site at that free address, even upgrade the site while still using the free address, and only switch the domain over to us once you’re ready.

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