Transition From Website to WordPress

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  ricktpa · Member · May 30, 2012 at 6:24 am

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  Hi there,

  I apologize if this comes off as dense, but I am trying to understand how this is going to work: I am the owner of a live and active domain. In the coming months, we plan on switching from our current website format to WordPress (gonna get the $99 package shortly).

  How will that transition occur so that I may stop paying $20 a month to a web service and focus all of our annual payments, etc. to WordPress? I read something about WP not accepting domain transfers; is that what I am wanting to do, or is that something else? I’d hate to think that in switching everything to WordPress, I’d still have to pay $20 a month to my web server hosting company. Please tell me that’s not the case.

  Again – I apologize if I sound totally dense; this is just a big change for us, and I want to know and understand all aspects of this before I start laying out the cash to make this happen.

  Ultimately, we want users to go to our current URL and simply wind up here, with the new site and only the content we have uploaded to WordPress as part of that new site. I just need to know for certain that is doable and simple.

  Thanks in advance!

  Rick
  Blog url: http://themeparkadventure.wordpress.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 30, 2012 at 6:31 am

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  Who is your domain name registered through now?

  Also, what is the URL of your existing site so we can take a look to see if there is anything that might cause issues.

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  auxclass · Member · May 30, 2012 at 6:32 am

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  I read something about WP not accepting domain transfers; is that what I am wanting to do, or is that something else? I’d hate to think that in switching everything to WordPress, I’d still have to pay $20 a month to my web server hosting company. Please tell me that’s not the case.

  That is not the case – you will need to have your domain name registered not at WordPress.COM – runs $ 6.– to $ 25.– per year depending on they extension of your name (.com, .org, .me etc) and the registrar – one of my names costs me $ 12– a year for registration –

  You then map the domain name to your blog here –

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  auxclass · Member · May 30, 2012 at 6:33 am

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  Morning @TSP – good points all – they probably should review the Terms of Service also.

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  ricktpa · Member · May 30, 2012 at 6:38 am

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  Thanks for the quick responses, everyone. The existing site is http://www.themeparkadventure.com. It’s the Internet’s oldest existing theme park fan site, and it is completely archaic and outdated. Big changes needed. We do not want to salvage anything from the old site at all; we want to shut it down when this new one is ready to roll with fresh content and somehow, get all of our users to end up here when they type in the URL rather than the old site.

  The hosting company is JustHost.com, which used to be SuperWebHost.com out of Canada.