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  beckfoot · Member · May 29, 2012 at 1:09 pm

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  Why is my blog not online yet
  Blog url: http://beckfoottennisclub.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · May 29, 2012 at 4:18 pm

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  It’s an empty blog and I can view it. You can log-in by using this link http://beckfoottennisclub.wordpress.com/wp-admin If you can’t then clear your browser cache and cookies and try again. I don’t know what “upload problem” you are experiencing. To upload images see > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/

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  beckfoot · Member · May 29, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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  Thanks for replying, sorry I should have been more explicit. The problem I am having is this:
  I am trying to upload my wordpress blog on to the internet. I purchased the domain name from names.co and they say everything is OK from there end, yet it still does not appear on the web. They say it is a wordpress issue. I feel I am going around in circles

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  timethief · Member · May 29, 2012 at 4:38 pm

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  Have you purchased a domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.com?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
  Are you trying to map an existing domain you already own to a WordPress.com blog?
  http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
  What is the domain name?
  What is the URL for the .wordpress.com you want to map from to the domain?

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  beckfoot · Member · May 30, 2012 at 11:10 am

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  Yes I am trying to (map?) an existing domain name to my wordpress blog. the domain name is http://www.beckfoottennisclub.co.uk and the url is http://www.beckfoottennisclub.wordpress.com

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2012 at 11:47 am

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  Have you purchased the upgrade?

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  beckfoot · Member · May 30, 2012 at 12:19 pm

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  Thank you for helping…
  Upgrade? is this something new to wordpress? My son (who would normally help me with this problem, but is away in the USA) has had many websites via wordpress and never had to buy an upgrade. It has always been easy to simply say to names.co, point the domain to the wordpress blog and after 24 hours there it is on the web! but not now.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2012 at 12:24 pm

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  This is the procedure for mapping an existing URL to WordPress.com http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ note that it is different from mapping it to WordPress.ORG.

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  beckfoot · Member · May 30, 2012 at 1:11 pm

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  $13 all sorted now, many thanks for all your help

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  meetsomone · Member · May 30, 2012 at 3:28 pm

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  will i have to upgrade in order to upload my own theme

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  beckfoot · Member · May 30, 2012 at 3:49 pm

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  Looks like it, wordpress never used to charge but it seems they do now, $13 a year is not bad.

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2012 at 3:59 pm

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  @meetsomone
  You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

  The only themes we can use are those found here > Appearance > Themes
  This is a multiuser blogging platform. All blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and we cannot access the underlying files and edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/

  There are two free themes, Sandbox and Toolbox designed to allow maximum flexibility for CSS editing and creating new “skins”. Toolbox is more modern and includes a lot of support for CSS3 and HTML5, so it is really only limited by your skills and knowledge.

  If you have CSS editing experience the upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but will not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. It does not allow you to remove footer links to the theme designer or to WordPress.com. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes at WordPress.COM. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/

  See also > WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: The Differences > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/