Switching WordPress sites

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  paintedtabledesigns · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 11:06 pm

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  I have a wordpress websited through a HSR course I am enrolled in. That course is about to end and it seems I will loose the website. I own my domain name and am with Hostgator. Should I just move to a new WordPress site and can I still use my domain name? How do I switch?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 11:09 pm

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  Yes, you can move your content and your domain too. See: Moving from a Self-Hosted WordPress to WordPress.com

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2016 at 11:11 pm

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  Connect your domain name from your old site to your new WordPress.com site with a Domain Mapping upgrade.

  Please read first:
  Important Notes Before Upgrading https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading

  re: mapping an existing domain
  WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. 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/

  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 do not register a .wordpress.com blog URL first then the software supplies the dot whatever URL so you can proceed with your domain mapping purchase.

  See https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

  Your only options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  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.