Allan Avery – new WordPress Blog
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Liz- More on Creeksideinsumner website- that I forgot to include: Yesterday, I did the same thing, but stopped at the PAY step, & wrote the Oct 9, 1:21 pm note to you. Later in the evening I got an email back, from an “Anne F” inquiring about the non-payment. Do you need to check with her about that? Allan
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Hi Allan –
First, let’s look at the domain mapping for creeksideinsumner.com.
Bur Problem: when it confirmed, it showed it as a blog. What we intended was a “Website” format, not a Blog. How do I switch it to that?
No need to start over! A blog is a type of website. Rest assured that the HOA site will be a website :)
You’ve got the mapping set up on our side. Now, you need to finish that process with domain registrar for creeksideinsumner.com. Those instructions are listed under Step 2 in https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/. Write to them and say:
I would like to use my domain with a WordPress.com site. In order to do this, I need to point my domain’s name servers to the following: NS1.WORDPRESS.COM NS2.WORDPRESS.COM NS3.WORDPRESS.COMOnce they update the name servers on the domain it will be pointed to WordPress.com.
The domain registration is going to stay with GoDaddy and you will be the owner of the mapping upgrade for that domain on WordPress.com.
These are the step-by-step instructions from GoDaddy’s site: https://www.godaddy.com/help/change-nameservers-for-my-domains-664
You can also call the number at the top of GoDaddy.com for help if you run in to trouble. I do not have any access to this account to assist further with changing the name servers.Moving on to our-place-in-the-cosmos.com.
Except: I still can’t understand why: When I open with the – our-place-in-the-cosmos.com – link that I have saved in my browser Favorites, I can edit all the content as I please. But when other people open it with the same, apparently they Cannot edit it. It’s good this way, but what makes it that?
This is because you are signed in to your account in the background of your web browser. The computer knows that it is your account, which is what allows you to edit from the front end. If you switched to a different browser you would not see this functionality unless you signed in to your account in that browser too.
Posts listed Top down with the oldest at the top. Can that order be reversed- Latest at Top, and earliest at the bottom? That’s what I’d like. How to?
There are options to how you order the posts. Take a look at these instructions: https://en.support.wordpress.com/show-your-posts-in-chronological-order/
If I missed a question in there let me know.
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Liz, Got your Instructions. On the Homeowner Association site there’s one more thing. Can the “Owner” name be “Creekside In Sumner Homeowners Association” (which is it legal recorded name)? Rather that me? If that’s possible, I’d prefer it. (I’ve made all the payments on my own account so far- including the $700+ I paid GoDaddy two years ago, and recently asked for a pro rata refund of. But it could be billed directly to the HOA. What to you think? I’ll proceed on your instructions Thank You!! Allan
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Liz, creeksideinsumner.com
I used the http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain. On that page I wrote in the “How may we help you?” box the wording to showed, with the NS1WORDPRESS.COM and the other two.
Will I know when that is done, and what to do next.
Your next text was: Once they update the name servers on the domain (etc). And later, “These are the step-by-step instructions from GoDaddy’s site and a godaddy url. Do I go there now?(Now back to my blog & reverse the order of my Posts. You’ve Got to wonder if all your loyalty with the blog is worth it, with absence of much Posted there so far. I promise I WILL make it worth all your time, when I can get back to it. Thank you so much!!! Allan
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Hi Allan –
The name servers changes need to be made through GoDaddy since that is where your domain is registered. You’ll have to reach out to them for this change. Use this link: https://www.godaddy.com/help/change-nameservers-for-my-domains-664
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Liz, (At least you got a couple of days rest from Me! :-) When I use the above url to takes me to as GoDaddy screen, with a list of choices; like “Domains originally registered with godaddy;” “Domains registered with someone else;” etc. I tried all the different choices. Each one of them took me to a screen saying “find your domain(s) on the list below. Every one: nothing listed. Because I knew the domain was originally set up with Godaddy I had opened a Help Account there. They were NO help, (which is why I added myself to your workload). I’ll go back to GoDaddy Help to see if they actually CAN help – with these name server changes. With so much going on personally now, my Blog is “on hold” for awhile yet. But I WILL be Blogging; and I am profoundly grateful to you, for making it possible! Allan
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Liz – (10:15 pm same day.) You’ll see a message that I addressed to GoDaddy “help,” just a few minutes ago. Because it’s GoDaddy that wouldn’t let me complete the “name server” changes on THEIR screen, (at that godaddy url. Any instructions on WordPress end, please let me know. Allan
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Hi Allan –
Sadly, I’m not able to edit your domain name server records through GoDaddy. I don’t have any access to it as it is not connected to us.
Are you signed in to your account at GoDaddy? Is that the account that owns the domain registration?
What is it that GoDaddy told you exactly? That might help me figure out some more tips.
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Liz, Breaking News! The name servers are now changed to the three WORDPRESS.COM. Tempting to claim I figured it out myself; but actually it was a good GoDaddy helper. BUT they don’t have a cool title for their helpers like your “Happiness Engineers.” :-) I also replied on your last email too, just to be safe. So now, basically how do I start from here. The first steps?
I had a bunch of ideas about how maybe to “structure” it (in addition to keeping our Mountain picture as the heading mentioned earlier. But after starting writing about them several more lines, everything disappeared. So I’ll start over tomorrow. I don’t know what I’m doing to disappear it. Is there a way here to Save as I go along? Cheers for you! Allan
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Liz, I just now did successfully change the name Godaddy servers to the three WORDPRESS.COM. Success!!
I assume you’ll receives this msg from your email, but I’ll repeat this on our long WP Help “conversation” too. I’m too “psyched up” from having accomplished that, so I’ll have to de-compress a bit to try to think of what to do next. What say you? J Allan
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Liz, Ooops. I had naively assumed that the site would transfer looking the same as on GoDaddy. I hope that “first page” maybe it can be recovered somehow. The top half was photo of our majestic Mt. Rainier. If not, maybe we can find a similar photo. For the rest of the “first” page I had envisioned something a little like the Blog Home page. With a horizontal “line” of five or six separated words, reach representing a category of information, that the viewer could then click on to go to. And those in turn each with subordinate subdivided pieces, accessible in vertical columns. Maybe all carrying over to a second or third page? Anyway it will be nice to improve on what it was before.
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Good work, Allan! Proud of you :)
I updated the primary domain so that folks will now see creeksideinsumner.com instead of the free version, creeksideinsumner.wordpress.com.
Go ahead and upload any images that you want to use on this site to your media library. Don’t worry about getting them situated just yet.
Next, take a look at what theme you’d like to use for the site. Check out the demos and set up instructions. Those are at wordpress.com/themes/ OR you can get there from clicking on My Site > Themes (next to Customize).
Of course, I’ll be here to answer questions. I think these 2 things are a good next step.
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Liz, Re ” creeksideinsumner :” The picture I want to use at the top of the front page is the one that was on the on it, before the switch to the WordPress name servers, (when it all disappeared.) I had already copied and saved all the text that was on the page before the switch, thinking I need to reuse it. But forgot the Mountain pic. Might there be some way to recover that picture? If not I” want to find something similar. Does WordPress has a big file of pictures somewhere? If not I find something somewhere. I assume that the pic can be added at the top of the page later; and the way to insert would be copy and paste. ?? Meanwhile I’ll go ahead stumble ahead into the rest.
My grateful thanks to you may be getting tiresome, but here they are, always. WordPress has got to have a way to recognize and reward
“Happiness Engineers” who are so good and long suffering as you.
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Liz, He’s Baack! HOA Site: When I open to it, either with (1) creeksideinsumner.com, or (2) Login to WP, and choose it from “My Sites:” It get a screen “This is your first BLOG Post. With the all the side bar choices I have not been able to do anything. When it go to “site title,” one time I was successful in entering Creekside In Sumner Homeowners Association, but when I then moved down to the pages choice in the sidebar it want back to that first opening screen. And Site Title disappeared. Can you show me how to navigate from that first screen? It does have a “customize” link I tried too, but same result.
Allan
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Hi Allan –
It get a screen “This is your first BLOG Post. With the all the side bar choices I have not been able to do anything.
This is a brand new site, there’s not been any content added to it yet which is why you are seeing these prompts.
To edit the site title follow these steps:
1. Click My Sites from upper left corner.
2. Select creeksideinsumner.com.
3. Click on Customizer from the left hand menu, next to Themes.
4. Select Site Identity from the menu options on the left.
5. Complete the Site Title field.
6. Use the blue button directly above the Site Title box labeled “Save and Publish”.
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Liz, Thanks Heaps, re the “creeksideinsumner instructions.
Momentarily tho: back to ” ourplaceinthecosmos ” I was working on my POSTS to date, to leave them in “first to lastest” order, and make some change to a couple of them. So good so far. I was writing on
. my very First one , that started out something like “Oh Kaaaay, my very first post…..” And I disappeared it~! the whole thing. Don’t know what I did. Is there ANY way to recover it? I had it in the “first, top position, which is what I want. (If GONE FOREVER I’ll try to remember and re-write it- Including the instruction to scroll down to the latest. Then, I’m ready for a new short one. Allan -
@allanmerry I see several drafts at wordpress.com/posts/drafts — are you able to see the post there?
Consider too, we keep revisions of posts as well, so if you accidentally deleted the content without deleting the post itself, the old content may be in a revision. More details here:
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Ms Supernovia,
When I open to ” ourplaceinthecosmos.com ” it shows my latest latest “updated” saved version, but it has “customize” and “edit” links. I once wondered if “visitors” opened to the same, then they too could revise it, (which of course I don’t want). But apparently visitors get it without those links and thus can only comment.So then, to my BLOG page: Yes, I see several Posts. If they are “drafts,” I didn’t know that. My msg to Liz about one of them- It was my very First Post attempt and it is Blank. I hoped it could be restored could be restored. (It was lost in moving I lost moving this from GoDaddy to WP. I have chosen- so far- to have all posts show on BLOG, and from 1st to latest. At some point – (after I’m able to return to putting the energy into the blog that I originally intended), I’ll probably want to REVERSE the order of Posts: Latest first, and backward.
Question: Has Liz Karkowski turned me over to you now, for further help on This Blog? I’m an 81 yo, “IT handicapped” guy. She’d be more than justified moving me off her workload. She invested a huge amount of time with me thus far. She’s a Saint, (as you’d see reading back over all of our correspondence.) But I know that I’ll still need help from time to time, so I need to know who’s helping. :-)
I DO trust that she’ll still be with me for my NEW, second Site- A Website (rather than a Blog) for my Home Owners Association. The domain is creeksideinsumner.com I’ll check one or two earlier replies to my questions for starting that “from scratch.” That too was originally on GoDaddy, but inactive, neglected for several years. And I was the “last resort” volunteer to resurrect it, (as NOBODY among our 100 household admitted and skills with such.) About 2 years ago we restored payment on it for 5 years. I started trying that with GoDaddy Help, and got nowhere. Thus over here to WP too. It would be nice for GoDaddy to send the remainder of our $800 payment for it over to you too.
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Liz, I got a second response (above) from Supernovia, which I assumed was about the Blog. Thus my reply to her. Am I Embarrassed or What?
THEN I went back to my inbox and found Your actual response regarding ourplaceinthecosmos. Thanks! I’ll follow your instructions.
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Liz, I used your instructions to work on the Homeowner Association website. You’ll so how far I got, using the sidebar menus. (I may still want to substitute Picture.) It seems like it’s still treating it like a Blog. I went through all the Themes but didn’t find one I thot appropriate. What I want on the First page (of maybe 3- or even 4 total), below the picture heading, is a horizontal line of spaced “main Headings. Like OFFICERS MEETINGS SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES QUESTIONS and the like. Each with a very small bit of text aligned below it, referring to the Next Page for more. Could you tell me how to set that up, on the page that I’m seeing? Meanwhile I’ll be deciding of the headings and the rest of the format. Muchas, Muchas, Muchas Gracias!! (sp?) And I still need a bit of help with Our-Place……. The Blog page. Want my Posts to “Latest” at top and down by date.
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