Title: wordpress.com to wordpress.org Last modified: October 21, 2016 --- # wordpress.com to wordpress.org * [charactersunlimitedinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charactersunlimitedinc/) * (@charactersunlimitedinc) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/) * Hi there, * I am very new to wordpress and am also very confused right now. * I want to create a website for my business and got started with wordpress.com thinking that I needed to purchase a plan and build my site through that. I had my hosting provider download wordpress and set up a domain and host the site through that. I just realized that i cannot have plugins with wordpress.com, so luckily i was able to cancel my plan and get a refund. So now, I am in the process of figuring out how to switch to wordpress.ORG What do i need to tell my hosting provider to change in their settings on their end? Do the nameservers need to be pointed to something different? Right now when I go to my site login [http://www.charactersunlimitedbc.com/wp-admin](http://www.charactersunlimitedbc.com/wp-admin), it prompts me to login with my wordpress.COM credentials. How do I make it so it asks for my wordpress.ORG credentials? * Also, because I made little to no progress designing my site, I dont care about transferring any files over to wordpress.org. * Any help and advice would be much appreciated. I am very frustrated at this point. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [ThemeSumo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesumo/) * (@themesumo) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8339957) * Have you changed your nameservers to point to the server your new site is hosted at? I believe you purchased the domain through your host? * Simply manage the domain and find the section where you can change the nameservers of that domain, add the nameservers given to you by your host, they should look** something** like this: * ``` ns1.yourhost.com ns2.yourhost.com ``` * The process of changing nameservers can take upto 24 hours or so for it to take full effect. * If your host has installed a standard version of WordPress for you, and your domain name points towards it, then it should have no connection with your WP. com account by default. * Hope this helps. * Thread Starter [charactersunlimitedinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charactersunlimitedinc/) * (@charactersunlimitedinc) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8340150) * Sorry if this is a stupid question but if there is no connection with my wp.com account by default, how would I tie my wordpress account username to that website though? Is there someplace where I need to enter my wordpress username and password so that it knows im the admin of that site? * Thread Starter [charactersunlimitedinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charactersunlimitedinc/) * (@charactersunlimitedinc) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8340160) * Also, In my wordpress.COM account, I have my site [http://www.charactersunlimitedbc.com](http://www.charactersunlimitedbc.com) mapped. Do I need to “un-map”? * [ThemeSumo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesumo/) * (@themesumo) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8340173) * Unfortunately I’m not very knowledgable about WP.com as I have barely had a need to make use of it. I would think you would need to disconnect all mentions of your domain within the WP.com admin area to perhaps _release_ it. * Hopefully someone with more WP.com experience may offer some guidance, in the meantime, [this documentation](https://en.support.wordpress.com/transfer-domain-registration/) may help further. * Thread Starter [charactersunlimitedinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charactersunlimitedinc/) * (@charactersunlimitedinc) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8340236) * As far as wordpress.org, how/where to I enter my wordpress.org username and password so that my site knows to link my account with that website? Does that make sense? * Thank you for your help! * [ThemeSumo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesumo/) * (@themesumo) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8340257) * You don’t link your WP.org account to anything. WP.com and WP.org are two very different things, I think you may be confusing the two. * You don’t need to link your WordPress installation to anything. * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8342625) * Also review: [https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/](https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/) * [dustinbowtie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dustinbowtie/) * (@dustinbowtie) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8354178) * I literally have this exact same issue. * charactersunlimited: How were you able to resolve it? * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8354467) * [@dustinbowtie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dustinbowtie/), If the troubleshooting already posted made no difference for you, then, as per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post), please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform). That way you stand a good chance of getting full attention to your specific issue. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘wordpress.com to wordpress.org’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [installing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installing/) * [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-com/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 9 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#post-8354467) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics