unable to create subdomain for a members page

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  edwardkinney6843 · Member · Jan 10, 2019 at 1:36 am

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  I am making a site for my HOA. I have a public site e.g. myhoa.wordpress.com. I am trying to create a subdomain for a members only site. I named the subdomain members.myhoa.wordpress.com. I keep getting a Sorry note that it unable to create the domain. What am I doing wrong?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 10, 2019 at 1:10 pm

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  Hi there,

  You cannot create a subdomain on a free WordPress.com address, as that address is itself already a subdomain of the WordPress.com domain.

  If you want to use a subdomain for a site, you’ll need to first own a custom domain, like myhoa.com, and then you can map a subdomain on that domain instead.

  Please note that both adding a custom domain to a WordPress.com, or mapping a subdomain to a WordPress.com site, requires one of our paid plans.

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