Domain Hosting with WordPress.COM and new Bluehost site

  • Okay…newbie here.

    I setup a wordpress.com website a few days ago without realizing its limitations for what I am wanting. I paid for domain hosting to get rid of the “.wordpress” on my website so the domain I want to keep is jknightplandesign.com.

    I signed up for BlueHost and tried the one-click setup but I’m not sure it’s all working correctly. The only choice I had when going through the setup was to add this site: https://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~login/wp-admin/ (where the x’s and “login” are replaced with my info) and not my jknightplandesign.com domain.

    If I go to my website (jknightplandesign.com) it shows the old (blank) wordpress site. I bought a theme and have it loaded but it redirects to the wordpress.com layout and even logs me into my free wordpress.com dashboard.

    So … what am I doing wrong?

    I just want my domain to point to the site I’m building not the wordpress.COM stuff and I have no idea why it logs me into my free site.

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  • Thread Starter jknightplandesign

    (@jknightplandesign)

    I should note: I have used and designed personal websites using Dreamweaver and other domain and hosting sites without any issues. WordPress is frustratingly complex to get things up and running I feel like (but I have used WordPress at work and love it which is why I am here). I have not had this many issues doing sites with FTP upload and Dreamweaver and I consider myself pretty damn tech-savvy. This stuff is completely escaping me, though.

    You need to contact the folks over a wordpress.com to have your domain name transferred to your Bluehost account.

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