Quick question about domains and WP Cloud
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Hi there, I hope this is quick and painless :)
I registered my domain myself the other day with Dreamhost, installed WP and just now installed JetPack and linked it to my WP account (raffaboutit.com and raffaboutit.wordpress.com)…
One question
1) A long time ago I had a regular free WP under a different name. Whenever I posted, OTHER WP users would like, make comments / see my post in the WP cloud when i used tags or categories…. The way I have it set up now – when I next go to post on my main domain (raffaboutit.com), will it be connected to the WP cloud so other WP users can see? If not, how can I do so?
had I known WP hosts .com/other domains, I’d have done it!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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1) No. If you want the benefits of the WordPress.com community, you have to host your site at WordPress.com.
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Ok, then why would ‘Mapping an existing domain’ not work? I read about it and it looks very much like that would maybe provide the benefits of the wordpress community?
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Do i really have to delete/cancel my domain/ website altogether, and register the .com domain with WP to expose my posts to the WP community?
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Mapping an existing domain simply takes a custom domain and connects it to a WordPress.com blog. If you’re asking how to make your externally hosted blog work like a WordPress.com blog, the answer is you would have to import it wholesale to WordPress.com and blog here, using the domain mapping.
Domain mapping is not the same as “turning a WP.org blog into a WP.com blog.” You have to actually move the whole thing here and abandon the hosting you have paid for. It’s like, if you want to vote for the mayor of Boston, you have to move to Boston.
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Ahhh, I see, mostly anyway… I’ll get the hang of this yet!
So to confirm – I should cancel all my registration with the current hosting service (thus de-registering my domain) and then hop on to wordpress.com – register a .com through WP, re-upload the theme i found, etc — then w/e I post on my new registered through WP domain will then be exposed to other WP users, correct?
This hosting service will have made $11 off me out of my being noobie :).
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No. You should keep the domain you have bought, register a WordPress.com blog, map the domain to the blog using the Domain Mapping upgrade, Import the contents from the old blog to the new, then cancel the hosting at the old blog once you have confirmed that ALL the contents have propagated at the Wp.com blog.
You will not be able to import an external theme here, for security reasons.
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Ok, I did register a wordpress.com blog (raffaboutit.wordpress.com), did that, changed my dns info, etc – and now the two are pointing to eachother (www.wordpress.com / raffaboutit.wordpress.com) as you have described…
To be frank I don’t really have any content to move over – this is the early stages :)…
So I then need to cancel hosting AND registration with the other service so that it frees up the domain I want – then i can re-register it under WP.com?
thank you VERY much by the way.
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Actually import the contents to your blog here then domain map the blog here, once you domain map your custom domain name to a blog here the old blog will stop working and you need the old blog up for the media (pictures) to import
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No. DO NOT CANCEL YOUR DOMAIN.
Once a domain is registered, domain squatters note it and wait for it to get freed up again. Then they grab it. You’re 99% likely to lose it if you let it go. Just remember to renew it with your current domain registrar when the time is up and you should be fine.
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I’m just looking for this blog/site to get some easy exposure – and last time i used wp there were many people visiting the old one. Not sure if I should just forget this and just let search engines do the work / other fitness community forums that’ll visit it as i’ll have a url to it in my signature?
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Ok, thanks! I didn’t know you can have one service register the domain as mine – but host it elsewhere… I went poking on the WP site but did not find anything (yet!) talking about how to get it hosted by WP.
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Ok – I deleted the hosting through the provider, so they just have my domain registered… My DNS settings are pointing to ns1.wordpress etc…
When I visit wordpress.raffaboutit.com it forwards to raffaboutit.com, good. However I am still able to enter: raffaboutit.com/wp-admin and login under my admin username and pw – which is separate from my raffaboutit username on WP and it lets me in. I thought if I cancelled hosting through the providor it wouldn’t allow that?
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It can take up to 72 hours for the dns to settle down. And once it does, you will get to your WP.com dashboard, not the WP.org one, via that link.
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Ah yes – some changes have occured since our last posts… Looks like DNS’s are doing their thing. Still a q though to ensure I’m doing this right?
From the top – I had raffaboutit.com hosted and registered with a provider. I wanted to have WP host my blog because I was told my posts wouldn’t show up on the WP website unless that was the case. I’m all for easy exposure =).
So, I mapped my domain according to instructions and deleted my hosting from the provider and they are now just holding on to the registration of the domain for me.
Now, when I go to http://www.raffaboutit.com – there’s nothing there…Ok, I thought my WP account would be posting to there/hosting now… But when I try to add a post on my raffaboutit.wordpress.com profile, it shows the preview of the post but it does not post it? It forwards to raffaboutit.com but no post.
I have set the dns servers to dn1, 2, etc .wordpress.com.
Furthermore, when I log in to wordpress.com and go to ‘My Sites’, I see two.
raffaboutit.com, and Raff About It!… The second one shows a jetpack problem – probably because I killed hosting with the other provider
https://raffaboutit.wordpress.com/wp-admin works
raffaboutit.wordpress.com forwards to raffaboutit.com but there’s no WP page as previously mentioned.I checked my Account Options, and my primary blog is raffaboutit.wordpress.com – doesn’t do anything when switch it to http://www.raffaboutit.com.
Do you think DNS servers are still doing their thing?
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Has it been 72 hours? No, it hasn’t. So, wait.
In the meantime, check your email and you have to confirm your account here before your posts will go live.
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Ok, I shall wait – sorry, i saw a change / update on how things were functioning – so I wasn’t sure if it meant it had completed or not – thank you for your time! Were this reddit – reddit gold would be yours, most certainly :)
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http://raffaboutit.com/ – loads to a WordPress.com site that says “Test 2”
Hold Your Horses!
It can take as long as 72 hours for DNS changes to become widely available. If you’re still not seeing your site loading at raffaboutit.com, please wait a few more hours, clear your browser cache, and try again.
Nameservers Validated!Congratulations! The nameservers appear to be set up correctly for raffaboutit.com.
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Primary Blog is Setraffaboutit.com is set as the primary domain for raffaboutit.wordpress.com and will appear in the address bar when you visit the site.
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