If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your WordPress.com DNS records accoringly, we share instructions below.
How to point WordPress.com DNS records to Pressable
Category: FAQ | Last modified: May 19, 2021
Pointing WordPress.com Nameservers to Pressable
Log into your WordPress.com account and navigate to
“Manage → Domains”
To the right of the domain name, click on the three dots and select “Name servers”
Disable the “Use WordPress.com Name Servers” option.
Update the nameservers to Pressable’s
ns1.openhostingservice.com ns2.openhostingservice.com ns3.openhostingservice.com ns4.openhostingservice.com ns5.openhostingservice.com
Select “Save Custom Name Servers”.
View WordPress.com’s directions on how to make this change here: https://wordpress.com/support/move-domain/change-name-servers/
Note: that if you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Pointing WordPress.com A Records to Pressable
Log into your WordPress.com account and navigate to
“Manage → Domains”
To the right of the domain name, click on the three dots and select “Name servers”
Select the link “DNS records”
You will need to enter TXT records, obtained from the settings page for this site in my.pressable.com. First add your domain to this Pressable installation. Then select the blue gear icon to the right of the domain to reveal the default DNS settings. Click on the TXT records to copy their values.
Please note there is one TXT record for the www version of the domain, and one TXT record for the non-www version.
Add these TXT records to your DNS settings at WordPress.com
Next create the A records to point to Pressable IPs:
Set the WordPress.com staging URL as primary.
You can read WordPress.com’s guide on how to update A records here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/move-domain/setting-custom-a-records/