Two wordpress accounts with one blog. Please help!
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I’ve messed up :( I set up a wp account for my blog nickyoungchannelswim.com and then I went to host gator to set use their hosting service and installed wp there for the same blogging account but with a different user name. So it seems I have two accounts covering th same blog. I can’t get onto the admin site at all. Please help.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Nick,
Which admin site are you trying to access?
Note that if you installed WordPress in your Host Gator account, that is entirely separate from the service at WordPress.com
Perhaps you are trying to redirect your Host Gator domain to your WordPress.com hosted blog?
The result of that would be that nickyoungchannelswim.com opens what is currently at nickyoungchannelswim.wordpress.com
Is that what you want to achieve?
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You have two accounts – one blog and not sure what you have at nickyoungchannelswim.com on Host gator – nickyoungchannelswim.com is parked and while you might have installed “WordPress” somewhere the configuration is not correct – you need to get help at WordPress.ORG for that part of it.
http://nickyoungchannelswim.wordpress.com/ is actually working – it is here at WordPress.COM
Neither account or blog are related at all other than you own both of them
What are you really trying to do? Set up a blog on Host gator or a blog here at WordPress.COM?
You can map your domain name nickyoungchannelswim.com to your blog nickyoungchannelswim.wordpress.com and be hosted here and nickyoungchannelswim.com would be displayed in the browser address bar when people visited your blog here
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Thank you both so much for your responses. I think what I would like to do is this.. Set up a blog with the the address http://www.nickyoungchannelswim.com. I own this domain and have paid for hosting with host gator. However, I bought it from 123reg.com and when I go on to my domain, I still see their details.
I think what I have also done is set up two wp.com accounts. One with the user name nickyoungchannelswim (which I think has the wp blog site) and one with the user name belswim (which I think has the http://www.nickyoungchannelswim.com address) both wp accounts are registered to my e-mail address. Should I forget the first account or can I link the two? I had the confirmation e-mail from wp saying I had installed correctly but I’m wondering if I should be on wp.org rather than .com as I want to create it myself.
Do I need to do something at 123reg to tell them that host gator are hosting?
Are any of my ramblings making sense? I’m desperate to get started as this is a website for a charity and I’m letting everyone down but I’m a technical dunce,
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Ok Nick, let’s go step by step.
Your domain name (nickyoung.com) is only a name pointing to an address. Like x=1, nickyoung.com=172.31.21.3 (for example).
Your domain name is configured with your “registrar”, in this case: 123reg.com
Every website on the internet is hosted (stored) in a server. Servers are provided by hosting companies like Host Gator.
Some companies offer services instead of plain hosting.
Example.
– Host Gator gives you hosting, in which you can setup an email service.
– GMail gives you an email service.– Host Gator gives you hosting, where you can install a WordPress.ORG instance.
– WordPress.COM gives you a blogging service, you don’t have to setup anything.That might help with the basics. Now I’ll make an assumption and explain to you what to do if this assumption is right.
A: I’m assuming that you want to host a blog in nickyoung.com, in which you can easily log in, write posts, publish images, etc.
1. Create a WordPress.COM account, right in http://wordpress.com
2. Create a blog in WordPress.COM, something like “nickscoolsite.wordpress.com”.
3. Buy the “Custom Domains” upgrade in the WordPress.COM store
4. Follow the instructions to set your Custom Domain in WordPress.COM, this will involve going to 123reg and changing some values, as well as configuring some things in WordPress.COM. (You’ll get a link to the documentation when you sign up).
5. Wait a few hours for the internet to catch up with changes.
6. Enjoy.This will make nickyoung.com show the same blog that you just created in nickscoolsite.wordpress.com. You can print banners that say “Visit http://nickyoung.com” and people will see your site and won’t know that it is hosted in WordPress.COM (unless they are users of WordPress.COM themselves, in which case they will see the black bar at the top, like you probably have seen).
This has the advantage that you don’t have to do any technical configuration except from the *very simple* Custom Domains setup.
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Now, I’ll assume that you want absolutely all control possible on nickyoung.com.
A: You want to install plugins, custom themes and changes lots of technical stuff in nickyoung.com
1. Get a domain name with a “registrar” (like 123reg), something like nickyoung.com
2. Get a hosting account with a hosting company (like Host Gator, Bluehost, Dreamhost, etc).
3. Use the hosting company tools to install a WordPress.ORG copy, or upload your own copy of the application. This means you will install the system yourself: configuring a database, a username, etc.
4. Make sure that 123reg is pointing to your hosting company.
5. Wait a few hours for the internet to catch up.
6. Enjoy!
7. Do regular maintaining to your WordPress.ORG installation.Note that this option means that you have to keep up with updates, security, software configuration, etc.
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From what you say, I strongly believe that WordPress.COM is a much better option for you.
I have gone into detail here so that maybe with these examples you can articulate more clearly what your goals are. That way we can point you in the right direction.
Let us know so we can help you better :-)
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