wordpress.org & Bluehost

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  alongourway · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 4:03 pm

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  I just purchased hosting from Blue Host and installed WordPress on blue host, but I just get directed to my wordpress.com dashboard.

  Could someone please help?

  Will I login through bluehost or wordpress.org to make changes updates?

  How do I used wordpress.org?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  joelymil · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 4:46 pm

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  Are you wanting to create a brand new self-hosted blog or move your existing blog over to Bluehost? If the latter, you can find an explanation of how to do that here:

  Moving to WordPress.org

  Let me know if you have additional question on this.

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  alongourway · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 5:45 pm

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  Here’s where I’m at:

  – Through wordpress.com, I changed the Primary domain from my purchased domain alongouway.com to alongourway.wordpress.com
  – Through BlueHost, I downloaded wordpress, and have it set to use domain purchased alongourway.com
  – I’ve set the Name Servers for alongourway.com to the bluehost servers.

  I got excited when through BlueHost, under wordpress installs, I clicked Admin-Login and was brought to an fresh blog with the WordPress.org Dashboard (I was able to see plugins, jetpack, etc.) I thought it was good to go.

  – I installed the Import plugin then I went to Import, and imported my blog that I had exported (from wordpress.COM). After import the dashboard and everything switched back to wordpress.COM ..

  What gives? What am I doing wrong?
  Please don’t just direct me to another link, I’ve followed instructions but now I’m stuck.

  Please help, thanks! :)

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  alongourway · Member · Apr 20, 2014 at 5:58 pm

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  Do I need to transfer my domain alongourway.com from wordpress to bluehost?
  In Bluehost theres > Domains > Transfer

  Is this a step I missed?

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  joelymil · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 3:54 pm

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  While you’re welcome to transfer your domain registration over to Bluehost, it’s not required, and as long as you’ve pointed it to the Bluehost name servers it should work fine.

  To me, it looks like you’ve done everything correctly. The only thing I would suggest is to log in to your self-hosted WordPress admin and check under “Settings>General”. Make sure the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” fields are set your http://alongourway.com.

  If this doesn’t resolve the issue, I’d say your best bet is to come back and add a ‘modlook’ tag to this thread. This will alert a Staff member, who should be able to help you more.

  Good luck!

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 4:23 pm

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  http://www.alongourway.com/ – loads to a WordPress.ORG install for me

  To work on your new site – use the log-in below

  http://www.alongourway.com/wp-login.php

  The dashboards look almost identical between a WordPress.ORG install and a WordPress.COM site

  Don’t screw with the Settings >> General >> WordPress address unless you really know what you are doing – do the wrong thing and your blog gets sent into outer-space and is difficult to recover

  For more help with your new site you should ask at
  WordPress.ORG, they are the keepers of the software you are now using