Adding a self-hosted blog.

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    rachelsduvall · Member ·

    When I first opened my WordPress.com account, I added a WordPress Blog to it that I host myself. I now have a second WordPress Blog that is self-hosted and I would like to add it to my WordPress.com account as well.

    However, I have either forgotten the procedure to do so or I am only allowed to add one self-hosted blog to my account here. I’m not sure which…

    I can’t seem to find any place at WordPress.com that allows me to add a second self-hosted blog to my account. I can only find options to add an Example.WordPress.com type of blog.

    Is there a step that I need to take that I am forgetting or are we only allowed one self-hosted blog on our WordPress.com accounts?

    Thank you in advance for any help.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You would probably get advice about that over at WordPress.org.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The only time a self-hosted blog will appear in your account here is if you are using the API key from your account for the wordpress.com blog stats plugin on your self-hosted blog. The blog is listed since it is using the API key, but it is only LISTED, it is not actually here. The self-hosted blog will not appear on the wordpress.COM global tags pages or anything like that.

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    marlacorinne · Member ·

    THANK YOU!!!! It took me a full hour, searching both wordpress.com and wordpress.org forums, to find this answer. I started a self-hosted blog a few months ago and fell in love with wordpress. Since then I’ve started a couple of other blogs/websites using wordpress, and I wanted to list them all on my wordpress.com account. My primary self-hosted blog was listed when I installed the wordpress.com stats plugin, but I did not know that is why it showed up in the list of My Blogs.

    Likewise, I’ve just been invited to be an administrator for the xxx.wordpress.com website for my son’s school music boosters website. I’d like to list it on my page, also, but now I understand that it is not possible to do that unless I use my API key to enable the wordpress.com stats package for that site, too.

    Since I don’t want to share my API key with the other volunteers, I wont do that.

    It is quite frustrating to go to wordpress.com and see my list of blogs (now showing both my self-hosted ones and one toy4testing wordpress.com blog) followed by a link to “Register another blog –>” but in fact the link means CREATE a new wordpress.com. There is no link to register another self-hosted blog, like the two I have listed already.

    AFAIK, the only way to get self-hosted blogs listed is to enable the WordPress.com Stats package, as described in this thread. THANK YOU again for making this side effect clear.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    If your son’s school music website is hosted here at wordpress.com, then you can have them add you as an administrator on that blog and then it will show up in your dashboard.

    Adding Users

    On creating blogs, this is wordpress.COM and it is not connected to wordpress.ORG They are two separate and completely unrelated things.

    For self-hosted blogs (.ORG) you have to have register a domain name, and hire a web host and then install the software from .ORG and configure it. WordPress.ORG does not HOST blogs. Getting/creating a self-hosted blog is not as simple as setting one up here.

    WordPress.COM does not equal wordpress.ORG. They are two completely different and unconnected things entirely.

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    marlacorinne · Member ·

    Oh good point! I forgot that their site is hosted at wordpress.com, so listing (or not listing) a self-hosted blog with my account is a non-issue.

    And I totally understand wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org. I just thought (incorrectly) that wordpress.com provided a handy way to keep track of ALL my blogs, self-hosted or wordpress.com hosted. I thought this because my first self-hosted blog mysteriously appeared in the list, and I concluded I must have put it there a few months ago and forgotten how I did it. :-) Which is sort of true, because I did install WordPress.com Stats plugin on my blog a few months ago….

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    sennhauser · Member ·

    Thanks so much for this exchange of information. I also wanted to add a new self-hosted blog and could not figure out how to do it on the wordpress.com website. I’m so glad I found this page. Activating the WordPress.com stats plugin did the trick. Thanks again!

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