Last week I got all excited that I was going to transfer my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosting thingamajig. And I was nervous and scared. And so I did it! I transferred the domain “la-florecita.com” to a non-wordpress place and I bought a year of hosting after researching various hosting sites.
YAY!
I was ready!
Okay, install wordpress with one-click install. Done!
Going to check my new blog and see if it all went well! What do you mean, page is not found? Why is wordpress still taking me to my old blog? Stop it!
[Insert lots of research, reading various things, digging deep into parts of wordpress I'd never before ventured.]
And it turns out that because I paid to have domain-mapping through wordpress.com, when you type in the domain I “transferred,” it takes you straight to my wordpress.com site.
[More research.]
What do you mean, I don’t have permission to transfer the ownership?
So I do some things to get it transferred. And then I have to log in to some other account and give it permission to transfer. And then I had to wait 5 days!! I couldn’t just approve it! I had to either cancel it or wait 5 days for it to go through.
And this morning I got the emails. All was successful. Except for the part where wordpress.com will continue to domain-map my “transferred” domain name until March 13th, when that expires.
So I can figure out how to get around that, if there is a way, or keep blogging here for a month and cross that bridge when I get to it. Stay tuned.
