Registered & bought new domain: how to set-up second website?
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My first website and blog is “radjahs2cents.”
Yesterday I registered and bought a second domain for a second website. I tried to set it up, consulted the information but for some reason the internal settings are giving me a hard time.
I mean I can create a “new blog/WordPress” but I cannot import a domain I paid for, into the function or application to create a new site? It does not make sense to me.
Also do not give me the “categories solution.” I register and buy a domain and should be able to set up an independent website apart from my first website and blog.
I am not pleased with the information provided or the limitations of the internal settings. I expect better from an otherwise excellent platform like WordPress.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yesterday I registered and bought a second domain for a second website.
What is the domain URL that you purchased?
Where exactly did you purchase it from?
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Are you referring to mapping an existing domain to another .wordpress.COM blog?
You require an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain to map from to your domain URL and it does not matter what it is, so be clear on that please.
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible.
Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made, it and the domain mapping purchase here, each and every year.
Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually and a domain name purchase and domain mapping are included in the Premium upgrade bundle.
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com sub-domain blog to map from and it does not matter what that underlying .wordpress.com URL is. It does not have to match the domain URL.
If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the WordPress.COM blog, and as you own a domain URL already, you can see here for mapping an existing domain. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
It can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
If required, to move content see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/
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First of all thank you for the response.
The second domain is: rura-projects.com
The hyphen is on purpose here. I checked wether the domain would be available in the generator and it was. I registered and bought it with private registration via WordPress from ICANN.
I tried importing this domain in the direct “create a new blog/WordPress” function/application but it would not work.
Also the primary versus sub-domain distinction confuses me. You can have several domains , yes but based on the information provided here the primary domain is the first domain to be referred to unless you set up the sub-domain (URL) as an independent domain.
1. I understand the need for a primary domain.
2. I do not understand how it is made so difficult to have two independent domains as independent websites with different URLs.If it is not possible to set up the second domain as “independent” consider me even more confused.
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Hi there,
Sorry for the confusion! To start, you’ll need to create a new site with a free *.wordpress.com address. You can do that by visiting this link while logged in to your WordPress.com account:
https://signup.wordpress.com/start/
The free *.wordpress.com address is your site’s underlying, permanent address. Once the site is created, let me know and I can help move your domain over to that site, so visitors see your custom domain name instead of the site’s free address.
Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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Thank you.
I will go with that method. Could you please “sticky” this method/procedure for all WordPress users?
The available information is does not address that “blogname.wordpress.com” is the first and only step to creating a new blog or website on the WordPress platform. This gave me the impression I could simply evade this method/procedure.
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Hi there,
I’ll report this to our team so we can work on clarifying that for anyone trying to create a new blog or website. Thanks for your feedback!
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