Add a custom domain to your WordPress.com Site

 When you first setup your site at WordPress.com you site will accessible under sitename.home.blog but what you really want to do is add your own custom domain.

For examplae my site started out at bigjoesays.home.blog but I wanted under my own domain of bigjoesays.com

New Domain or Existing Domain

With WordPress.com you get the chance to either purchase a new domain name or transfer you domain name to them, I would not recommend either of these routes due to the costs associated with renewals at WordPress.com

I would recommend either leaving your domain with your existing registrar or transferring it to CloudFlare or Amazon Route53, if you havent’t got a domain name yet buy it using CloudFlare or Amazon Route53.

Setup Domain to work with WordPress.com

So if you have your domain ready to go simply login into your WordPress account, choose Manage from the left menu and then choose Domains.

Click the red button Add domain undefined

WordPress will now attempt to make you buy a domain from themselves, ignore this and scroll to the bottom of the page and choose Use a domain I own

Choose Map your domain, do not Transfer to Wordress.com

You are now asked to enter the domain you want to map:

WordPress will give you a checkout/purchase screen but there will be no cost.

Proceed to checkout.

They will tell you to update the nameservers of the domain to:

ns1.wordpress.com
ns2.wordpress.com
ns3.wordpress.com

Set WordPress.com Primary Domain

Once you’ve gone back to your domain registrar and updated the DNS nameservers and these have updated and propagated you need to go back to WordPress.com and make sure you set the Primary Domain otherwise you site wont work correctly under the new domain.

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