Redo my website using wordpress

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  kalinedebine · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 4:52 pm

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  Hi, I don’t want to publish a blog, I want to “re-do” my website (gazolyne.com) using wordpress. There is already a web site under this address: mine. I did it years ago on iweb and I would like to “overide” it. Where do I start?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 4, 2013 at 5:24 pm

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  First, please realize that there are different flavors of WordPress. Here are some details:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  You could set up a web site on either WordPress.com or on WordPress.org. If you decide to go with the free hosting on wp.COM you would choose a theme, set up your pages, and map your domain. (note: a blog is a website, just a special sort of website and you don’t need to use posts as in a blog, you can use just pages)

  If you go with WordPress.ORG, you’d be responsible to set up a host (you would pay for this), use the free software, and design your site. There are a number of free themes as well as paid themes. Visit WordPress.ORG for more details.

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  kalinedebine · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 5:33 pm

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  Thanks for your answer. I have a web hosting service already which my website runs on. It doesn’t host wordpress sites, so I will find another one, not a problem. I want to know:
  1. Can I use wordpress to make a brand new website with my actual address
  2. when I am ready to “publish it” I would replace my actual website with this new one.
  3. If not, can I use a “temporary address” to design and test my new wbesite and then change the address for my actual website when I am ready to publish?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 5, 2013 at 12:02 am

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  I’m sorry, I don’t have enough experience to advise. Perhaps you found help at WordPress.org?

  I’ve only done this one time:
  When I set up my work site on wp.org, I just kept the same host but uploaded wp.org software to NAME.org/wp-1 leaving it unlinked from the menu. It was live online but not accessible unless one knew the link. When I was finished with the new site, I deleted the content of the original pages leaving a re-direct link to my newly designed site.

  But if you have to get a different host in order to use the wp.org software, I don’t know what to advise. Nor am I sure I went about my project in the best possible way, though it seems to be working and attracting the folks we are aiming for.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 5, 2013 at 12:05 am

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  By the way, if you have FTP access to your site with your host I think you can still use the WordPress.ORG software that way. We are on Netscape Solutions but I didn’t go through the system they have on their front/marketing page. I just installed wp.org software via ftp…