Trialling WordPress for no initial cost.
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Hello, total newbie here. I want to trial making a rough one page webpage in WordPress. I created an account. I don’t want to have any initial cost. I have a domain, I do not want to host it at WordPress, I dont want to give WordPress control of it, I don’t want to buy a plan yet. I just want to have a look at how webpages might be created. I don’t want to publish my test webpage. Can I proceed at no cost or not?
Thank you, Jeff
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Hi there,
You can create a new WordPress.com site without connecting a domain.
All sites on WordPress.com get a free WordPress.com or .blog subdomain when the site is created, that functions just like any regular subdomain, and your site is fully online and accessible at that subdomain (provided you set it to public).
You can create as many such free sites in your account as you want.
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Didn’t work for me. Gave up in the end. I’ll try again. I note others posting with parallel experiences.
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nup. Insists I either provide a domain which I have to pay them to host or buy a domain which is only free if I buy a wordpress pla. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong nut I must have tried this a dozen times now with no success
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Have you tried typing a full address with
.wordpress.com? Could you post a screenshot of what you see on your end? You can use an online tool for that (such as https://snipboard.io/), or follow the instructions described here:
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Bedtime my part of the world but I’ll do this tomorrow. I opened an account with username jeffnk.wordpress.com and get “jeffnk.wordpress.com doesn’t exist”.
I’ll get screenshots tomorrow.
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I think screen shots will be very helpful. That site has not been registered in our system. Perhaps there is a missing or off character, or a typo?
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Only the third screenshot opens for me. Did you initially just create an account and no site rather than following through and creating a site with the same name as your username. Try creating a free site with a different address as a test just to see how the process works. At https://wordpress.com/start/domains?ref=calypso-selector I can type jeffny.wordpress.com and am offered a similar free address with many numbers below the two paid for options. I can fine tune that down to one number. I assume the original address is reserved for you.
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Ah thank you. It didn’t occur to me to type jeffnk.wordpress.com in that box. I’m through now. Thanks all for your help. On my way now.
Jeff
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Another thing that threw me was that when I logged in the page inviting one to buy/attach a domain is the first thing loaded. . This made me think that was my only option.
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