How do you take out the .wordpress part?

bestscoretestingcenter · Member · Mar 2, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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Hi, WordPress
Two things: First, I’m trying to alter the name of my website. , I don’t like the .wordpress.com in my site is it possible to change that? Second, I want to connect with facebook for my site but, its not letting me?
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timethief · Member · Mar 2, 2015 at 6:23 pm
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re: mapping domains

What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.

If you would like to use a domain URL that you already own on the blog hosted by WordPress.com you will first need to register a .wordpress.com blog, purchase an upgrade for it, and set up domain mapping.

Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. Payment methods are found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.

You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.

See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
WordPress.com does not accept domain transfers but mapping an existing domain is possible. Domain mapping of an existing domain URL that you already own and purchased elsewhere is not done free of charge. You will have to renew the domain name purchase where you made it and the domain mapping purchase here every year. Mapping an existing domain costs $13. annually.

if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/

After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.

If you succeed at purchasing the domain mapping upgrade it will be reflected at these two spots:
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades
http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

Dashboard > Store > Billing History
http://en.support.wordpress.com/billing-history/

Your payment methods are here https://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/
timethief · Member · Mar 2, 2015 at 6:25 pm
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re: connecting to Publicize
https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#facebook-profiles-pages

Staff have done some work on this. Please disconnect the Publicize app, clear your browser cache, and then try the reconnection process.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-services

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