Title: Installing and using wordpress.org within wordpress.com
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installing and using wordpress.org within wordpress.com

 *  Resolved [farmyears](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farmyears/)
 * (@farmyears)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-and-using-wordpressorg-within-wordpresscom/)
 * Please help me. A nonprofit, small local org. had a boy set up a website for 
   them and he is now not able to continue with the project. I have been asked to
   maintain the site for them which I am willing to do free of charge. From what
   I can gather, he set up a blog site for them on wordpress.com using wordpress.
   org. I have done websites not blogs, and am feeling lost. I am amateur and mostly
   self taught, I normally use GoLive. I have read the instructions for the 5 minute
   install, but where on wordpress.com do I copy or upload the data. Do I upload
   the whole wordpress.org file? Please simple English, not code talk, or you will
   lose me.
 * Thank you

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 *  Thread Starter [farmyears](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farmyears/)
 * (@farmyears)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-and-using-wordpressorg-within-wordpresscom/#post-1161949)
 * I should add that the boy has not turned over any admin rights to the site as
   of yet and I cannot start working on the site itself until that and other issues
   are resolved between the boy and the organization. So to practice I have started
   a blog site on wordpress.com in order to gain familiarity with it and also with
   wordpress.org
 *  [ccrest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccrest/)
 * (@ccrest)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-and-using-wordpressorg-within-wordpresscom/#post-1162030)
 * From what you are saying, the website the boy set up isn’t hosted with a web 
   host -but exists at an address like sitename.wordpress.com correct?
 * If so, the boy signed up for an account at wordpress.com and took ownership of
   a subdomain on the wordpress.com domain where you get a free blog. The boy didn’t
   install anything. He just signed up and tweaked a free blog that WordPress.com
   generated.
 * The WordPress famous 5 minute install doesn’t apply to a free blog on wordpress.
   com.
 * It applies to installing it on a web server with a hosted domain supplied by 
   an internet hosting company -or your own web server if you know how to set one
   up.
 * I’ve written an article about [How to Start using WordPress](http://www.how-towordpress.com/how-to-wordpress/start-using-wordpress/).
   It goes over all the pre-requisites to installing WordPress. Written in english,
   not code talk.
 * If the non profit still want’s to use the sitename.wordpress.com site, the boy
   will indeed need to give up his admin password.

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