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Please help. I have wordpress.org & wordpress.com confusion

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    anbuildingservices · Member · Aug 10, 2013 at 12:10 am
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    I have a website http://www.anbsllc.com that I purchased and is hosted by hostgator.com. Additionally I just opened up anbsllc.wordpress.com. I downloaded wordpress.org software and installed it using the one-click install *great! I thought I would be able to simply login and manage my wordpress.org website for example use different themes etc., but I cannot find a way to login and administrate the basic wordpress.org theme. So I went to wordpress.com and purchased their $100.00 upgrade to possibly have better domain service and software management. What am I doing? I am lost. All I want is the ability to simply manage a *.com website using simple administration tools like change my colors, edits posts. Can somebody steer me in the right direction? Otherwise I will spend money on everything but accomplish nothing ^^

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    airodyssey · Member · Aug 10, 2013 at 12:57 am
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    If your website is hosted by HostGator, you do not need to buy any WordPress.com upgrade.

    Get a refund for your purchase…
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/#refunds

    …then ask all future questions at http://wordpress.org/support/ , which is the address for WordPress.org blogs.

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