Register site from Bluehost account

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    gordonjohmacmillan · Member ·

    Iainbanks.org is a not for profit domain on my Bluehost account. I seek to migrate the site onto my WordPress account to develop it. I was informed that there is no additional charge for this, but your platform requires a payment of £85. Please could you help by registering this site on my WordPress account free of charge, and granting me access to your website development tools. With many thanks (email visible only to moderators and staff)

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is no such thing as mapping an existing domain free of charge so be clear on that.

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    timethief · Member ·

    WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

    We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose. You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/ Add a plan for each of your sites here: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/.

    How domain mapping works
    Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

    There are 3 ways to add a custom domain to your blog. Please note that an active WordPress.com plan is required to add a custom domain to your site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#getting-started

    WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ The domain or mapping of any existing domain URL is included in the pricing for a personal upgrade, a premium and a business upgrade. The WordPress.COM upgrade for mapping a domain must be renewed annually.

    WordPress.com does not provide an email service for blogs on their sub domains or on custom domains. Please see these support docs
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/

    Please go to https://wordpress.com/pricing/ if you wish to upgrade.

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    gordonjohmacmillan · Member ·

    I would like to further develop my site through the WordPress free price plan, but I can’t link http://www.iainbanks.org to my WordPress account. This is even though the domain is registered through Bluehost, which offers free subscription to WordPress. I would like to be able to manage the site by logging in through my WordPress account, but I am unable to do this without paying a further £85, – money which I don’t have. Grateful for your suggestions, and in gratitude, Gordon

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    timethief · Member ·

    I have no suggestions because what I said above is correct. There is no such thing as mapping from an free wordpress.COM site to an existing domain free of charge so be clear on that.

    I think you are confusing wordpress.COM hosted sites and wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting and need to post to the wordpress.ORG support forums for help.

    iainbanks.org is hosted by Unified Layer
    Name Servers:
    ns1.bluehost.com
    ns2.bluehost.com

    That site is not on our WordPress.COM servers. You are posting to the wrong support forum to get support for it. Also be aware of who the web host is for your site and contact them directly for any hosting issues.

    This is wordpress.COM support. We do not provide support for local installs of wordpress.ORG software, or for wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.

    WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    wordpress.org support
    The wordpress.ORG support forum is at     http://wordpress.org/support. The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
    WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
    See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/ for app support.

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