Creating website without a domain?

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    I've just bought domain from auction but it'll take few days for transfer, so can I start creating website with wordpress.org and later link a domain to it?
     
    lolada66, Jul 31, 2017 IP
  2. billzo

    billzo Well-Known Member

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    Link to your own site or an existing free blog from Wordpress.com? Wordpress hard codes the URL in the database so if you develop with a different domain you will have to change all the URLs in the posts table. There are other options when you are more clear on your intent.
     
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  3. salmanshafiq

    salmanshafiq Well-Known Member

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    wordpress.com is good also you can check a free hosting and you can mapped the domain later with free hosting..
     
    salmanshafiq, Jul 31, 2017 IP
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    andre2410 Active Member

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    you can use XAMPP to build your site offline, when your domain ready, just export/import it
     
    andre2410, Aug 7, 2017 IP
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    Just about to say the same!

    J
     
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  6. salmanshafiq

    salmanshafiq Well-Known Member

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    if you buy the hosting they will provide you temp URL for accessing until the URL make live. If you have already a hosting/domain then you can create subdomain and create your site once you have domain ready you can add as addon with same folder so it can work... Just need to update url from the table wp_options
     
    salmanshafiq, Aug 13, 2017 IP