[Hidden-tech] Fwd: WordPress.com question

Fri May 24 18:28:30 UTC 2019

Thanks, folks. I ended up deciding that if WP was going to be
potentially not supporting free sites anymore, there was no advantage
to using them. So I bought a domain and will set up a WordPress blog
within my existing hosting partition at HostGator.

On 5/24/19, Richard Danek via Hidden-discuss
<hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> Sorry if this appears a 2nd time. Sam McClellan seem to have received it
> when I replied (apparently only to him).
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Richard Danek <rcdanek at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] WordPress.com question
> To: Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com>
>
>
> I just tested Wordpress.com to see what's changed. I was able to select a
> free site. It let me chose a name that was inserted before "wordpress.com".
> So, the sites final name was rcdinfo.wordpress.com. I actually didn't
> finish setting up the site. I just wanted to see where you were forced to
> pay. *You still have the free option.*
>
> You have to look for it, though. (I found it at the top of the page in the
> description above the table that has the different prices/levels.)
>
> Now, on to domain names. You can use any registrar to pick a domain name. I
> use Google <https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/#> because they are only
> $12/year. The price is higher for some of the newer domains (like
> .photography). The thing is, once you have a domain name, you can change
> its records to point to the Wordpress site.
>
> Here's an example. My wife and I have a baking show that we produce every
> once in a while. I registered "oomas.info" on Google. So, that's my domain.
> The site is hosted on Wordpress as oomascookiejar.wordpress.com. I used
> website forwarding to make it work so that anyone going to "
> https://oomas.info" gets forwarded to the Wordpress site, "
> https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com".
>
> The name in the URL banner always says oomascookiejar.wordpress.com.
> Someone might object to that. I figure that once someone lands on your
> page, they're going to use buttons and links to maneuver. Lots of sites
> have long URL's at that point and no one seems to mind.
>
> So, free is still there.
>
> (I did find one registrar that supposedly allowed you to keep the "
> oomas.info" name in the URL throughout. It might have been GoDaddy. They
> wanted $20/year for the same domain name registration so I said NO to
> that.)
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:31 PM Sam McClellan via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, Wordpress.com does have a free account but
>> you
>> can't have your own domain with it. It should not require you sign up for
>> a
>> paid plan unless you want something that's not included in the free plan
>> such as your own domain.
>>
>> https://wordpress.com/pricing/
>>
>> Sam
>> --
>> Sam McClellan
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>> sam at itabix.com
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>> On 5/23/2019 11:17 AM, Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, that's not an option anymore. You have to buy a plan. The
>> cheapest is $3/month for a blogger account.
>>
>>
>> https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#steps-for-mapping-a-domain
>>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:12 AM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <
>> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to set up a freebie blog for a community group on
>>> WordPress.com. It would be hosted on WordPress.com and not on a domain
>>> of
>>> ours. But after it has me set everything up, it's requiring me to buy a
>>> domain sand sign up for a paid monthly plan.  How an I set up a freebie
>>> account as I've done in the past?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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________________________________________________
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"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
*http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809
<http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>*

Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change

Twitter: @shelhorowitz

* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame

http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
http://transformpreneur.com
mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:
Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)

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