Domain mapping in wordpress with godaddy domain and bluehost hosting…

  • Hopefully this isn’t a dumb question, but new to all of this.
    In short I am wondering what my name servers should be set to because thus far I have purchased a domain name from godaddy, and a hosting plan from bluehost, and the ability to map my wordpress to a custom domain. I have set my name servers to point from godaddy to bluehost; however I got an email saying that in order for WordPress domain mapping to work I need to set my name servers to wordpress.com. Do I need to do this? Also if I do this would I need to transfer my domain to bluehost in order for it to still be hosted there or is there a way to still point from godaddy to bluehost? Hopefully this makes sense and someone can help, thanks!

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  • Not a dumb question. DNS can be confusing even to professionals ??

    If you have a domain at godaddy and your site is on wordpress.com, then you don’t need a bluehost account (unless you’re doing email hosting or have others sites there). If that’s the case, then you should point your domain to wordpress.com and map the domain from there.

    I’m not completely familiar with how wordpress.com does their domain mapping, but if you did have stuff on your bluehost account you wanted to keep, you could transfer the domain to bluehost, but its really up to you. Either way, if your site is being hosted at wordpress.com the domain ultimately needs to be pointed there.

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