Taking my site live

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  hannahcurrier01 · Member · Oct 14, 2016 at 7:30 am

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  Good Day – how do i take my site live please?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 14, 2016 at 7:37 am

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  Hi,

  What do you mean by “take my site live?” The site is publicly visible, and new posts, pages, and other content can be published immediately.

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  hannahcurrier01 · Member · Oct 14, 2016 at 7:46 am

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  Thank you for the feedback, sorry I wasn’t being clear! what I need to do is find out how to swap my existing domain name. Currently I am hannahcurriercoza but I have a site called healthquest that I want to take down and replace with the hannahcurrier site, how would i do this? my host is asking for IPS or some such number? Thank you

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 14, 2016 at 9:35 am

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  You’re welcome. And thanks for the explanation. I’ve tagged the topic for staff attention.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm

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  Hello –

  It sounds like you’re trying to map a domain to your WordPress.com account? This is the process for using a domain that you already own.

  You are able to have multiple sites under one user account. It’s not required that you take down the original site in order to add another to your account.

  First, you’ll need to add a WordPress.com Plan to your account. Then you’ll be able to setup Domain Mapping.

  The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s name servers to the following values:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM

  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM

  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  However, if your registrar requires that you create A records, please note that our IPs change over time. Because of this, your domain might stop working at some point in the future. If that happens, please get in touch with us to find out the most current IPs and then update your A records, accordingly.

  If you still want to map your domain using A records, please be sure to create two records using these IP addresses:

  192.0.78.25

  192.0.78.24

  For more information on mapping a domain, please follow this link:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/

  Please let me know if you have any other questions or need further help.

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  hannahcurrier01 · Member · Oct 19, 2016 at 6:10 am

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  Thank you – are the above numbers my IP address? Thanks

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 19, 2016 at 1:48 pm

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  192.0.78.25
  192.0.78.24

  Are the IPs needed to map your domain.

  Your personal IP address could be found by searching ‘What’s my IP address?’ in a Google Search.

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  hannahcurrier01 · Member · Oct 19, 2016 at 3:36 pm

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  Thank you, yes I have a non WordPress site that I want to take down and convert my hannahcurrier01 domain to the other site name, are these the ones I use?Thank you

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 20, 2016 at 1:16 pm

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  You can map your domain with A records (IPs) or via name servers. This process is what you use if you are using a domain that you’ve already purchased elsewhere to show your WordPress.com site.

  Does this sound like what you’re trying to do?