WordPress, Bluehost, and domain

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Hey, so yesterday I was trying to launch a WordPress site, using Bluehost to purchase the domain. I ran into some problems and my transaction ended up getting declined multiple times. Here’s basically what happened:

* At first, I tried to register the domain through Bluehost and create the Bluehost account at the same time (the domain-purchasing process is baked into account creation)
* After getting payment declined, I tried to just create a Bluehost account on its own, and then come back to the domain later—same thing happened, payment was declined
* Finally I gave up on the Bluehost and domain stuff altogether and tried to create a WordPress account instead:
* It seems like I managed to create *something*, but I think even this I did wrong, because every time I tried to login, it was not simply letting me enter an email and password; rather, after I entered my email, it would send a link to my inbox that, when clicked, allowed me to login
* In other words, at no point in the login process did I ever input a password—I don’t even recall setting a password when I was configuring the WordPress account; I’m guessing whatever password I put back when I was working with the Bluehost stuff automatically got used?

If your brain hurts after reading all of that, I’m very sorry—I am chronically horrible at creating accounts in general, and on most sites probably have duplicate accounts because the first time I always do something wrong. Essentially, I have no idea what account(s) I actually have, and what I need to do next.

What I do understand now is that there seem to be two accounts required for launching a site: one with WordPress and then one with Bluehost when you’re registering the domain (correct me if I’m wrong). What I would like to do is delete whatever WordPress account I created last night so I can start over; same thing with the Bluehost account (if I actually ended up creating anything, which I doubt).

Then in terms of trying again, what are the steps? I imagine you create the WordPress account first? Because that’s the only one that marginally seems to have worked, while Bluehost just kept declining my payment.

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