Setting up my website
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So I have a few questions. I want to use WordPress to setup a website for my consulting business. While WP is setup as a blog, I understand that I can change the settings to select a home/landing page rather than a blog, correct? I also want to purchase a custom domain name, and want to make sure the domain is mycompany.com, and not mycompany.wordpress.com. Is this possible? And finally, I would like to have my email address to be (email visible only to moderators and staff), how can I setup my site so that my email has the same domain?
Thank you
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A blog is a website.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
Here’s a link to my step by step post too http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
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Every upgrade applies to a single blog only and is a one year subscription that requires renewal at years’ end.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
After you do the primary blog set up 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.
NOTE: WordPress.COM does not prove an email service for custom domains. See here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/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. I strongly recommend reading this support doc http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ before you purchase any upgrades.
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Thank you for all that info, it’s very kind of you. I will need to look at all the links you’ve provided.
So excuse my ignorance, how do I get an email address with the same domain as my website?
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