Why is wordpress is my URL?
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I’m a little confused why it has wordpress in the URL the domain name that I bought and want is http://www.organisedchaosmgmt.com not https://organisedchaosmgmt.wordpress.com/ Any advice on how this can be rectified please? Thanks again
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Did you purchase a plan to upgrade the site so you can use a custom domain?
We have 4 different plans: free, personal, premium and business. All hosting is free regardless of which plan you choose.
You can view all wordpress.com plan features here https://wordpress.com/pricing/ Add a plan for each of your sites here: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/.
How domain mapping works
Registering an underlying .wordpress.com URL first is required for domain mapping. That underlying URL does not have to match the domain URL when you are domain mapping. What domain mapping does is providing a seamless redirect to the very same content under the new domain URL when a person clicks the old URL .wordpress.com to the original content. It can take up to 72 hours for domain propagation to take place throughout the internet but it doesn’t usually take that long. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/There are 3 ways to add a custom domain to your blog. Please note that an active WordPress.com plan is required to add a custom domain to your site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#getting-started
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/
The domain or mapping of any existing domain URL is included in the pricing for a personal upgrade, a premium and a business upgrade. The WordPress.COM upgrade for mapping a domain must be renewed annually.
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Hi there, you would have to map your bought domain to your WordPress.com account.
Domain Mapping is only available on a upgraded plan.
Your domain provider would then need to update the DNS records.
You can read more about domain mapping “here”Hope this will shed some light☺
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Hello –
It looks like organisedchaosmgmt.com was purchased outside of WordPress.com. That’s no problem though, you can still use it here. What you need is to setup domain mapping for organisedchaosmgmt.com. Here’s how you do that: https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-existing-domain/
After the domain mapping is established your visitors are only going to see the custom domain in their browsers and the free .wordpress.com version will automatically direct to the custom domain.
Please reply with further questions.
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timethief – I can confirm your reply is there. It looks like we all posted within a few minutes of one another.
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