Comments on: Making WordPress.com appear as your own domain.com

By: Steve Cunnington

Steve Cunnington — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:36:18 +0000

Dear Sir, im really struggling getting this to work, the wordpress dashboard seems to have changed since this as made.

I have set the DNS as mentioned and i have made the domain name i have registered as primary on wordpress

It works occasionally but always drops the mapping

Where am i going wrong? Any hel greatly appreciated

Steve Cunnington

By: Duane Storey

Duane Storey — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:58:30 +0000

Yah I was going to say what Lloyd said -- you should never use IP addresses for nameservers. Duane Storey’s last blog post..WordPress Plugin Checker

By: theochads

theochads — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:16:29 +0000

Good work here Raul. Hope to be getting more lesson from you. You’re getting geekier by the day. keep it up.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:31:59 +0000

Thanks for the information. I’ll give it a try and let you know how I did.

By: Want A Blog Without Hosting? Try WordPress.com « Hosting Heartbeat

Want A Blog Without Hosting? Try WordPress.com « Hosting Heartbeat — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:54:42 +0000

[...] Alot of people immediately go out and get shared hosting whenever they want to set up a blog. While that’s a great solution, alot of people can probably make due with the free WordPress.com service. At WordPress.com you can sign up for a free WordPress blog in the form of myblog.wordpress.com. For a small fee, you can even map your own domain to it, as pointed out by Raul in Vancouver. [...]

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:21:29 +0000

Good article.

No registrar should need the IP addresses — using IPs is not a good idea, because although very, very unlikely to change, in theory they could.

By: Say hello to www.mandingueira.com! « Mandingueira

Say hello to www.mandingueira.com! « Mandingueira — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:36:19 +0000

[...] to a particularly informative post by Raul at hummingbird604.com, I’ve managed to give Mandingueira its very own domain name! No more “.wordpress” [...]

By: Joaninha

Joaninha — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:42:38 +0000

Hi Raul,

I read your blog occasionally, and just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for this post!! I’ve also had my domain name purchased for a couple months now, but was trying to figure out a way to redirect it without having to host it, since I wanted the name but am not ready to run a self-hosted blog yet. This was the perfect solution, and it was so simple and easy to do. Thanks again, and keep up the great work!

-Joaninha

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:18 +0000

@ Nomade Moderne and Miss604 – thanks!

By: miss604

miss604 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:14:34 +0000

you’re such a pro now

By: nomademoderne

nomademoderne — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:24:24 +0000

Congrats on the domain name. It reminds me that have had my domain purchased for about a year now and have not gotten around to doing this!

By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:25:23 +0000

@ Matt – Thanks Yes, I am!

@ Gus – I’d suggest you do it

@ GoingLikeSixty – I did that before but that doesn’t provide me with clean URLs. I prefer the clean URLs

By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:19:26 +0000

Much easier just to set up a redirect from whomever you purchased the domain name.
redirect from: yourdomainname.com to yourwordpressname.wordpress.com

By: Gus

Gus — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:56:58 +0000

Hmmm I haven’t bought the “Private” option on my domain name. Hmmm I better figure out how to do that.

By: Matt Collinge

Matt Collinge — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:42:16 +0000

Looking good Raul. Nice work. You are getting geekier by the day.