Title: wordpress.com to wordpress.org
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# wordpress.com to wordpress.org

 *  [dustinjones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dustinjones/)
 * (@dustinjones)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-7/)
 * I currently have the church’s website set up using a wordpress.com template and
   I am wanting to change it over to a wordpress.org site using a different template.
   Can you tell me how I am to go about freeing up my domain from the wordpress.
   com site so I can have the domain pointing toward the wordpress.org site instead?
   Thank you very much for your time.

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-7/#post-2295373)
 * If you already have host account where you installed wordpress.org then all you
   need to is change name servers at the registrar of domain name to point to your
   host account
 *  Thread Starter [dustinjones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dustinjones/)
 * (@dustinjones)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-7/#post-2295381)
 * I don’t have a wordpress.org site yet because I want to the domain I already 
   have for the wordpress.com site to be the one I use for the new wordpress.org
   site. My question is how do I get to use the domain I already have for the wordpress.
   com site to be the domain for the .org site?
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-7/#post-2295388)
 * When you get a host account they will give a temp url that you can use to set
   up and log in your account using that you can set up wordpress get all working
   and then change name servers.
 * If you change name servers first your wordpress at wordpress.com will be down
   as the domain name will point to your host that does not have any thing setup.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-7/#post-2295388)
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