Using my own domain

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  treeze01 · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 12:52 pm

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  I have searched WordPress support and forums and have come to the conclusion that I still do not understand how to add a blog to my website. I DO understand that I need to pay $10 to do this. I may be being a bit thick here but the notes in the support section are not easy to follow so could someone please give me a blow-by-blow account of what I need to do in my circumstances!

  I have my own website hosted by particular hosting company. I want to add a link on my home page that says “Blog” and then people (when they click on the link) will be taken to the blog page, which will have the address http://www.mydomain.com/blog. How is this done?! What does my host need to know and what does my web design guy need to know in order to make this happen. Once this has happened and is working do I need to upload every blog I do or does it automatically happen via WordPress.

  Also when you say mapping, do you mean that my site will point to the blog or redirect people to it?

  Any help most appreciated!

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  implanningmywedding · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm

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  This is the same thing that I don’t understand. I’m sorry your having problems but I’m glad I’m not the only one.

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  rosclarke · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 3:08 pm

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  From the Support section on domain mapping:

  Q: How to I map my wordpress.com blog to a subdirectory of my current domain such as http://domain.com/blog ?
  A: I’m sorry, but subdirectory mapping is not available. You could map to a subdomain as described below.

  Q: I own domain.com, and want to map a subdomain of that to my WordPress.com blog. Is that possible?
  A: Yes. You will need to add a DNS CNAME at your DNS provider before the domain mapping will work. You should not change your nameserver information if you just want to map a subdomain. The CNAME should look something like the following:

  subdomain.domain.com. IN CNAME [your-blog].wordpress.com.

  Once that DNS entry has been added login to your WordPress.com Dashboard, click on Settings -> Domains and enter subdomain.domain.com into the box. If everything is setup correctly, it will allow you to map the subdomain to your blog. If things are not quite right the system will let you know and provide suggestions on what you need to do to remedy the problem.
  Note: You cannot map only the “www” subdomain since we remove the www from all the URLs at wordpress.com.