Creating an Elementor hosted website is your first step on the road to success. Now it’s time to attach a great name to your beautiful site.
In order to do this, you will first need to make some changes to the DNS records of your domain name. This document will walk you through the steps.
Connect your domain to your Elementor hosted website
- Go to your My Elementor dashboard.
- Hover over the website card of the site you want to connect and click Manage This Website.
- Click Connect domain.
- In the popup window, enter the custom domain name you purchased and click Let’s begin. Use the domain name without www in front of it.
By default, the system uses the name you entered as the primary domain and will connect the name with www in front of it. (e.g. mysite.com will be the primary domain, and www.mysite.com will also be connected.)
Note: Domain connection can take up to 48 hours
Edit the domain name settings with your provider
- Open a new tab in your browser, and if you haven’t already, sign into your Bluehost account.
- Once signed in, go back to the Elementor tab and click I signed in, what’s next?
Add the DNS records
- Go back to the Bluehost tab and click My domains.
- Find the domain you wish to use for your Elementor hosted website.
- Click Manage.
- Now that you’ve found your domain settings, go back to the Elementor tab, and click Found it, what’s next?
- Go back to the Bluehost tab, and click the DNS tab to access the DNS records.
- Once you’ve located the records, go back to the Elementor tab and click Found them, what’s next?
You can now access the A record and CNAME of your Elementor hosted website. - In the Update your DNS records section, under A record and/or CNAME value, click the copy icon to copy the A record and/or CNAME from the Elementor tab.
- Go back to the Bluehost tab and paste in the A record or CNAME as detailed below.
Add an A record
Important: If your domain DNS records have an AAAA (IPv6) record set, you’ll need to delete it because IPv6 isn’t compatible with Elementor hosted websites yet..
The DNS Management page is where you create an A record for your domain. If your domain already has an A record set to “Parked” or another address, you need to delete it.
- Locate the A Record section and click Add a Record.
- Enter “@” in the Host Record field.
- In the Points To field, paste in the A record value of your Elementor hosted website. This is the value you copied from the Elementor tab.
- In the TTL field, use the dropdown menu to select “4 Hours (min)”.
- Click Save.
Use a CNAME record for the www address
To direct the “www” address to your Elementor hosted website, you need to create a CNAME record with the host name set to “www”. You may already have a CNAME record for the “www” address set to your domain. If you do, you can leave this as-is. If you don’t have a “www” address in your list, you need to add it from the DNS Management page.
To add a “www” address:
- Locate the CNAME section and click Add a Record.
- Enter “www” in the Host Record field.
- In the Points To field, paste in the A record value of your Elementor hosted website. This is the value you copied from the Elementor tab.
- In the TTL field, use the dropdown menu to select “4 Hours (min)”.
- Click Save.
Alternative CNAME method
You can also point your domain to your Elementor hosted account by adding a CNAME record that points your domain to your Elementor hosted website domain. For example, if your domain name is example.com and your Elementor website is example.elementor.cloud, create a CNAME record with example.com that points to example.elementor.cloud.
Finishing up
- Go back to the Elementor tab.
- Click I updated my records. Connect my domain.
So, what’s next?
- Wait for the DNS changes to propagate (this can take up to 48 hours).
- We’ll issue an SSL certificate for your website.
- When your domain is ready, we’ll notify you by email.
