Have you recently registered, connected, or transferred a domain to use with your WordPress.com website, but your URL still shows WordPress.com in the address? This guide will explain the steps to remove .wordpress.com
from your site address and change it to your custom domain name instead.
This feature is available on sites with our WordPress.com Starter, Explorer, Creator, and Entrepreneur plans, and the legacy Pro plan. For sites on the free plan, upgrade your plan to access this feature.
In this guide
Take the following steps to change your domain from displaying “WordPress” (ex: yourgroovysite.wordpress.com
) to showing your actual domain name:
- Ensure your site has a WordPress.com plan.
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Upgrades → Domains (if using Default View) or Hosting → Domains (if using WP-Admin View).
- The primary site address will be identified at the top of the page. The primary site address will also be indicated in the list of domains below with a green label reading “Primary domain.”
- Click on the drop-down menu in the “Primary site address” box and select the domain you want to replace the WordPress.com address with.
- Click the button labelled “Set as primary.”
Now, when people visit your website, they will not see the WordPress.com in your site address. Instead, they’ll see your domain name in their website’s address bar.
In order to set a domain as the primary address of your website, the site needs to have an active, paid plan. This feature is included with all of our plans.