Question about domain names from a relative newbie

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  jgrab1 · Member · Apr 3, 2008 at 11:47 pm

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  I have a question that’s probably simple for people more in the know than I am. If I want to have a WordPress blog with my own domain name instead of one with –Wordpress.com in it, and I buy said domain name, then what? How do I then create a wordpress blog with the name I bought instead of the one WP assigns to me?

  Again, this is probably easy, but I’m (somewhat) new at this. Thanks.

  John

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  orbvab · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 12:15 am

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  How do I take ‘wordpress’ out of my url?

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  mark · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 12:19 am

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  Once you have bought a domain with us the Options > Domains page in your blog will have a ‘Put blog here’ link.
  Click that and your blog address changes straight away. You need to do nothing else.

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 12:22 am

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  @jgrab1: Your blog with a custom domain name has also an address like example.wordpress.com. You need to create it in order to assign the domain somewhere.
  
  @orbvab: The link is useful but it would be nice if you had some kind words to go along with it.