A few questions
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I recently moved from Blogger to WP. I recreated my profile to what you see right now. But somehow curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com showed up when someone came to my domain. I do not need anything on the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress anymore just my curvygirlsarechic.com however I am afraid if I ‘delete’ it will delete the current profile I have built? Also I noticed some on the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress that I do not see on my curvygirlsarchic.com and thats the connections and sharing buttons tabs? It seems like I need those to add to my blog some kind of way when I do sharing? Can you assist please?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. First thing you need to understand is that there are two versions of WordPress. This forum, and you site at http://curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com/ are on the blogging platform, WordPress.com.
You site at http://curvygirlsarechic.com/, however, appears to be using WordPress.org, the open-source software you can use with any web host that supports it.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/Was it your intention to be self-hosted, rather than have a WordPress.com site? If so, then you don’t need http://curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com/ anymore, but I’d advise against deleting it. If you delete it, that address will be gone forever and you’ll never be able to register it again, should you need it in future. It is set to private at present, so no one can access it. I recommend you just leave it like that.
If you want anyone clicking on a link to the WP.com site to be automatically redirected to your self-hosted site, you can buy the site redirect upgrade for the WP.com site. This is a once-off upgrade and will make sure people end up on your correct site no matter which of the two URLs they use. https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/
If you actually WANT to be on WordPress.com instead of self-hosted, let me know, because then you need to do something completely different.
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Hi Kokkieh currently my intent is to be self-hosted. Someone how that other site showed up. I had messages there unanswered and I don’t know how that happened either and I did not receive a notification they were there. However someone has gone ahead and deleted the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com. I would have preferred the redirect you suggested above but its too late now.
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Someone how that other site showed up.
Most likely you created it when registering your username without realising you were doing it.
However someone has gone ahead and deleted the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com.
If I click that URL I still get the Private Blog screen, not the blog deleted screen. As it’s the URL matching your username it should belong to you and you’ll be the only person capable of deleting it.
Please check what happens if you click on this URL: https://curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
That link should take you to that blog’s dashboard. Let me know if that’s not what happens.
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Kokkieh I think I am loosing it someone surely sent me an email this am (around 5 am) saying they deleted my site for me. I wrote them back saying I would have preferred your suggestion but now my email is not there… Anyway when I click them both both are there — dashboard and site.
Is there anyway to transfer what is there.. the subscribers and the comments and move it all over to curvygirlsarechic.com ?
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someone surely sent me an email this am (around 5 am) saying they deleted my site for me.
As I said above, ONLY the owner of a blog can delete it, and the process involves several confirmations and a link you need to click in an email. Someone else can’t do it for you.
To transfer your comments you need to go to the link I gave you above and click on Tools ->Export to create an export file you can then import to your self-hosted site: https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
To transfer your followers you’ll need to first install and connect the Jetpack plugin to your self-hosted site. Then follow the instructions in this support doc to transfer them: https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
Let us know if you have any trouble with that.
For help with importing your content/installing the plugin you’ll need to ask in the WordPress.org support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/
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Kokkieh you have been absolutely awesome! Thanks so much! I have another question for you..
When I post my link to facebook.com it does not come up with the “post I choose” and its missing information.. would it be related too this http://beginnersbook.com/2013/10/facebook-debugger-tool-fix-open-graph-meta-tags-issues/? I got some kind of error message and when I went to research it it suggested that I install these items. Well I did install them but I did not activate them. I noticed some other things in the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com dashboard that I could not find under my main dashboard.. I think I found them not quite sure yet.
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The Jetpack plugin that you install to transfer your subscribers also gives you access to WordPress.com’s Publicize feature which auto-publishes posts to Facebook, Twitter, etc., and the WordPress.com sharing buttons. If you have a problem with those we can help you here.
See: https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/However, if you have trouble with any other Facebook plugins or sharing direct links to your site on Facebook, you’ll need to post in the WordPress.org forum. The two versions of WordPress work differently, and most of us in this forum simply don’t have the knowledge or experience to help you with problems on a self-hosted site.
Also does the WP site control any settings on my main site?
The two versions of WordPress are also completely separate. Via Jetpack you can access your self-hosted site’s dashboard using your WordPress.com account, but without that plugin there’s no link between the two sites. Does that answer your question?
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Hey dude you are doing a pretty good job to me you cleared up a lot of information. It definitely takes way more time to set-up properly than I anticipated as well.
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There is a bit of a learning curve, yes, and with self-hosted it’s a bit steeper than on WordPress.com
I’m glad if I’m helping. If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to ask :)
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Hello I spoke to you a few weeks ago about my site.. it seems like the curvygirlsarechic.wordpress.com is taking over my curvygirlsarechic.com under the mobile site? When someone clicks on the link from their phone it comes up with computer language and when I look at it there is an old profile picture? I have a few plug ins? Can you assist?
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Also is there some kind of plug in for my posts where I don’t have to enter code (like “br” all the time to separate the paragraphs?
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As curvygirlsarechic.com is a self-hosted site I can’t really advise you about it. I had a look on my phone and can see what you’re talking about, but for help with fixing it you’ll need to post in the WordPress.org forums: https://wordpress.org/support/
Also is there some kind of plug in for my posts where I don’t have to enter code (like “br” all the time to separate the paragraphs?
Are you still talking of the self-hosted site? Then you’ll also need to ask on WordPress.org. On your free WordPress.com site paragraph breaks should be added automatically when you press Enter. As far as I know it should work like that on your self-hosted site as well, but one of your plugins or some custom CSS might be preventing it.
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Thanks no one is really helping me over there.. No one seems to see what I am talking about.
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Unfortunately there’s really no way we can help you here. Staff here don’t have access to your site’s dashboard, so they can also only look at the site as I can, but they can’t look at your source files and they can’t fix anything for you.
Your other option is to contact your web host directly. It looks like you’re hosted by GoDaddy, so try their support.
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I’ll tag this for staff anyway, just in case they have an idea what could be causing this and can point you in the right direction.
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Hi there,
Right now you’re using Jetpack’s mobile theme on your site. That mobile theme doesn’t support all of the shortcodes you are using on your self-hosted site, so you’ll see the codes there instead of what you see on the desktop version of your site. You can disable the mobile theme module in Jetpack to use your regular theme on mobile.
If you have any questions or concerns about using Jetpack on your site there, our Jetpack support team can help you manage those features on your self-hosted site. :)
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