Best use of com/org/global for me?
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I’m at a bit of a loss and need a bit of advice. I think I understand the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org and the whole “global” thing – but maybe I don’t.
I just want to have one little account to space to be able to reference should I need a high level overview of what’s going on with my blog postings at the various blogs. So, right now there’s the 3 blogs I work with..
.org blog: Epcyclopedia.com which functions as my “primary” blog. I needed the functions and the domain name beyond the .com offerings so I hopped right into .org from the start.
But, to get the user account type stuff – evne the ability to post this thread, I had to make a .com account and a useless little .com blog: http://epcyclopedia.wordpress.com that is empty. I find it particularly annoying because this is apparently the blog that social media scoring sites use as my “metric” when pulling WordPress information – what’s that all about?
And finally, there’s my the work blog where I’m not the owner but a contributor account and I’ve not idea how to link it so I can even see it here: http://blog.touringplans.com/ where I’m this blogger account which is linked via my gravatar but apparently little else: (my profile overe there.)
So.. what on earth am I supposed to do to make those all functional in a way that’s useful to me..?
Or is there really just no sensible way to do that and I need to just give up on the idea or using any wordpress.com features?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The blog you specified at http://www.epcyclopedia.com does not appear to be hosted at WordPress.com.
This support forum is for blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If your question is about a self-hosted WordPress blog then you’ll find help at the WordPress.org forums.
If you don’t understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, you may find this information helpful.
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Those are wordpress.ORG blogs except for the empty one you’re not using which is WP.Com but doesn’t do you any good, as you have noticed. You cannot use WordPress.COM features on a WordPress.ORG blog. You may want to consider migrating your external sites to WP.com or not depending on what you need out of them.
If you need advertising, iframes, lots of Flash, the ability to edit the php or themes and get at the database files, you will need to be at WordPress.ORG.
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Ok.. again.. maybe I’m misunderstanding…
But.. wordpress.org… doesn’t “do” anything. Right?
There is no wordpress.org end user login and interface, right? There is no “gee look, there’s my blog posts and stats” which i can see for one of my .org blogs and not the other right now – for reasons unknown on .com
And i can’t have a common username and gravatar for posting and refering back to my identity when i roam the great wide web and other blogs unless i use features from .com right? There’s nothing that’s actually .org aside from the files that are sitting on my own servers?
Or am I misunderstanding things?
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I’ll just type this out on the obscure chance it might be true after the sense I’ve gotten reading the feedback from the mods and regular on the forums in regards to .com/.org posts on here:
Does anyone on this forum ever actually go and type wordpress.com or wordpress.org into the menu bar of their web browser and USE the website itself on a functional basis itself or are they just entirely concerned with the blogs derived from those websites only and not the front end…? Because that’s what we’re talking about here.
The jetpack, the user tools, etc.
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Before we go any farther, please read this http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
There is no “global.” WordPress.org blogs are standalone units of websites that use software developed by WordPress. They are not connected to one another. WordPress.org the site is the site for people using the software to contribute to the software and to report and solve problems for one another.
WordPress.com is a blogging host and network of interconnected blogs sharing Global Tag Pages and basically prefab. You can’t tinker with themes, you can’t add plugins, you can’t hack the code. They are turnkey, for people who just want to start blogging.
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Uh-huh…
So… then how on earth does the wordpress.com website display information about the site stats from a wordpress.org website then?
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And what’s my user name? Why is it shared across multiple websites? Why is it linked out and through my wordpress.org websites and my gravatar by my email address…?
How does that all connect…? Because some program is pulling that all together and saying “gee, this is all one person.”
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WordPress.com staffers developed the Jetpack plugin which is why the .com and .org seem connected.
Your username is shared across multiple websites because you have a Gravatar, and Gravatar is owned by Automattic which owns WordPress.com and developed WordPress.org and Gravatar functionality is built into all WordPress blogs.
If you think I’m lying you can solve your own problems from now on.
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I didn’t create the gravatar first.
And that doesn’t explain this page: http://wordpress.com/#!/my-blogs/
Which shows .com and .org blogs both. Since it shows both, but some and not the others, why? What’s the logic or what is or isn’t shown and what are the rules or what is or isn’t shown and why is there no support reference to it?
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WordPress.com staffers developed the Jetpack plugin which is why the .com and .org seem connected. If the blog has Jetpack, it’ll show. If not, it won’t.
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