You just need to go to your WordPress.COM account and change the nameservers so they point to GoDaddy – right now they are set to WordPress.COM:
http://www.whois.com/whois/liberatedtraveler.com
How can I get back into the dashboard for my wordpress.org site?
You could try changing those settings back – see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Otherwise you have to wait until the DNS changes – which can take from several hours up to 72 hours. Unfortunately, there’s no way to control that 🙁 .
Unfortunately I can’t even log in to make those changes. The only dashboard I can access is the wordpress.com one. It is my wordpress.org site that needs to be fixed.
Yes, I’m aware of that 🙂 – read that article again – you can change those settings in several ways that don’t require you to login. But you do need FTP or phpMyAdmin access to your site files/database. I think the functions file method works well – using FTP – this may help you get that set up:
http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/104/connecting-to-your-hosting-account-with-filezilla-ftp
I’m sorry, WPyogi. I’ll try to figure it out :).
No problem – I know these kinds of things are confusing/hard when you’re moving to a self-hosted site. FTP is really easy once you get it set up – FileZilla has lots of good info here too:
https://filezilla-project.org/
Okay, I need a little more help. I’ve downloaded FileZilla and I have access through the host. Which option should I take to change the url since there are four in the article? The first seems most doable… Thanks for all the help.
I’d actually use the functions.php file method –
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Edit_functions.php
What theme are you using? You’ll find your theme folder inside the themes folder here:
wp-content
themes
your-theme
functions.php - THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED
Okay, I did all that, but now my site says this…
http://192.185.4.53/~mreece85/
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home1/mreece85/public_html/wp-content/themes/Nexus/functions.php on line 3
I retyped it and it worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! One more thing, it says I should delete the lines after logging in a couple times, but won’t that take me back to the problem I had before?
Can you paste the first 5 lines of
home1/mreece85/public_html/wp-content/themes/Nexus/functions.php
here?
