<div dir="ltr">Sorry if this appears a 2nd time. Sam McClellan seem to have received it when I replied (apparently only to him).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Richard Danek</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcdanek@gmail.com">rcdanek@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:33 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] WordPress.com question<br>To: Sam McClellan <<a href="mailto:sam@itabix.com">sam@itabix.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">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 "<a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a>". So, the sites final name was <a href="http://rcdinfo.wordpress.com" target="_blank">rcdinfo.wordpress.com</a>. I actually didn't finish setting up the site. I just wanted to see where you were forced to pay. <b>You still have the free option.</b><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>Now, on to domain names. You can use any registrar to pick a domain name. I use <a href="https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/#" target="_blank">Google</a> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's an example. My wife and I have a baking show that we produce every once in a while. I registered "<a href="http://oomas.info" target="_blank">oomas.info</a>" on Google. So, that's my domain. The site is hosted on Wordpress as <a href="http://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>. I used website forwarding to make it work so that anyone going to "<a href="https://oomas.info" target="_blank">https://oomas.info</a>" gets forwarded to the Wordpress site, "<a href="https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>".</div><div><br></div><div>The name in the URL banner always says <a href="http://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>. 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.</div><div><br></div><div>So, free is still there.</div><div><br></div><div>(I did find one registrar that supposedly allowed you to keep the "<a href="http://oomas.info" target="_blank">oomas.info</a>" 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.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:31 PM Sam McClellan via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.<br>
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have to buy a plan. The cheapest is $3/month for a blogger
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<div>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
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