Upgrading the free wordpress site to personal plan

  • Unknown's avatar

    I want to upgrade my free wordpress.com site and when I choose a personal plan it asks me to pay Rs2400/- but if I choose the add-domain option it askes me for Rs6900/-.

    I already own a .in domain elsewhere which I want to map to my free wordpress.com site under the personal plan. Kindly let me know how to do it and what will be the actual cost involved.

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  • It’s likely that the value Rs 6900 is being shown because WordPress.com thinks that you are upgrading to the Premium plan.

    Here is what you should do to ensure proper upgrade from your free WordPress.com plan to the Personal WordPress.com plan – Open your site on the WordPress.com dashboard https://wordpress.com/ and click on the Domains button on the sidebar on the left. You should find an option to map the existing domain you own elsewhere. Click on that, enter the domain name and go through the process shown.

    This should ensure that you are upgrading to the WordPress.com Personal plan which costs Rs 2400.

    After the upgrade is done, please go through the guide here https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/ to ensure a proper WordPress.com site to primary domain redirection.

    I hope this helps. Feel free to get back if you have questions.

  • Hi there,

    Actually, to map the domain using the Personal plan, please DO NOT go to Domains first.

    Instead, click on My Site ->Plans and buy the Personal Plan. Once you’ve completed your purchase, go back to My Site ->Domains and add the domain mapping upgrade.

    If you start with the domain, the Premium Plan will be added by default every time.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thanks a lot for your suggestions…it really helped…my site is now up on personal plan!

  • If you start with the domain, the Premium Plan will be added by default every time.

    Thanks for clarifying, kokkieh. Is there a reason why WordPress.com does this? Would like to know. Thanks.

  • Unknown's avatar

    @strikebuys
    Use tag search like this Personal plan before responding to threads and you will find answers like the one from kokkieh above. For instance see here:

    You can use the Personal Plan if all you want is a custom domain, removal of advertising, live chat support and 6GB Storage Space but you need to add the plan first. If you add the domain first, Premium is selected automatically.

  • Use tag search like this Personal plan before responding to threads and you will find answers like the one from kokkieh above.

    That’s a handy tip, timethief. Thank you so much!

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