Comment profile photo
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How can I change the thumbnail photo that comes up next to my site name when I comment on other blogs?
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Howdy,
The photo next to your username is a called a Gravatar. It’s like a profile photo that you can connect to multiple services around the web, including WordPress. To change it, just follow the steps here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/#upload-an-avatar
Let me know if you hit any snags. :)
Best,
-Alex G.
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Thanks Alex, but I have already done this. Yet when I post comments I still see the pink/white box next to my blog name.
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Hi again! :)
It looks like when you selected the image for your Gravatar, it got rated as “PG” which means that on sites that require avatars to be “G,” such as these forums, your image does not appear.
You can change your gravatar image’s rating here:
http://en.gravatar.com/emails/
Hover over the image and click on the Rating:
You’ll be brought to a page that looks like this:
Select “G”
Once that saves across Gravatar’s systems, you’ll see the image appear. Please allow 5 to 10 minutes for that change to take effect.
Best,
-Alex G.
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Another one for you Alex… under each of my posts I have the ‘Share this:’ icons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. I want to add Pinterest, email to friend, and print buttons as well. Please let me know how.
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Hi again!
You can add all three of those in your blog’s Sharing settings here:
https://thetezzyfiles.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing
Just drag each button you want to use from “Available” to “Enabled.”
Read more about those and the customizations available:
Best,
-Alex G.
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Thanks Alex! You are my blogging fairygodmother :-)
One more wee thing… I registered the blog to my personal Facebook page, but I’ve created a Facebook page for the blog now. How can I set WordPress to automatically put my blog updates onto the Facebook page (and also, remove my personal Facebook from this site)?
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Howdy!
You are my blogging fairygodmother :-)
Haha, I love this! I should change my job title to blogging fairygodmother. ;)
To set that up, you’ll need to disable the Publicize connection for Facebook, then re-enable it and select the page only.
First, disable the Facebook connection (both on WordPress and Facebook) using these instructions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#reconnecting-services
Then start the Facebook connection again with these instructions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#facebook-profiles-pages
When you get to the option that looks like this, select your page, not your personal profile:
Best,
-Alex G.
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Hi Alex! Need your expertise again…
I want to add Bloglovin to my blog. How can i do this? Also – my blog is not showing up on the Bloglovin seatch. It says my site’s RSS feed has errors. How can this be fixed?
And i wanted to add plugins – why doesnt this show on my Dashboard?
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Hi there!
I want to add Bloglovin to my blog. How can i do this?
Bloglovin is essentially a reader for blogs, where you people can read your content. But you don’t technically need to add anything to your site to let people add you on Bloglovin.
If you want something like a widget to ask people to follow your blog on their Bloglovin, we currently don’t have a widget ready-to-go for that, but you could add a Link to a relevant Bloglovin page using a Text widget.
Here are instructions on adding Links within text widgets, just in case you’re not comfortable with writing HTML code:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
Also – my blog is not showing up on the Bloglovin seatch. It says my site’s RSS feed has errors.
Your site’s RSS feed can be found here:
http://thetezzyfiles.com/feed/
I checked your RSS feed with a web page validator and it appears valid. The only error is a missing DOCTYPE, which isn’t necessary when this feed type is expected.
Were you using that RSS feed link, or just “thetezzyfiles.com?”
And i wanted to add plugins – why doesnt this show on my Dashboard?
It is not possible to install plugins on WordPress.com, for security reasons. Plugins can only be installed on self-hosted WordPress.org blogs.
If you are wondering how WordPress.com differs from WordPress.org, this support article explains the distinction:
WordPress.com has a lot of built-in features that were inspired by popular plugins. If you’ll let me know what you were hoping to accomplish with a plugin, please let me know I’ll see if we can find a workaround. :)
Best,
-Alex G.
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Thanks for your speedy reply Alex!
I want to get more followers through Bloglovin but my site doesn’t even show up in their searches. The Bloglovin support menu said it might be due to my errors on the RSS feed – why do you yhink this is happening if my RSS is ok?
For Plugins, i want to add the Follow Me on Bloglovin button on my sidebar, and I also want an SEO plugin to be more visible on search engines.
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I want to get more followers through Bloglovin but my site doesn’t even show up in their searches. The Bloglovin support menu said it might be due to my errors on the RSS feed – why do you yhink this is happening if my RSS is ok?
The problem is Bloglovin’s search just doesn’t like the way we handle custom domains, it seems. I find your blog just fine when I use the RSS feed URL (http://thetezzyfiles.com/feed/) instead of just thetezzyfiles.com
You can see it appear on Bloglovin here:
https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/13304847
For Plugins, i want to add the Follow Me on Bloglovin button on my sidebar
To add things to your sidebar, you’ll just need a Widget, not a plugin. Since we do not have a Bloglovin widget already prepared, we’ll need to add this using HTML code in a text widget. Bloglovin supplies the HTML code for a few widgets here:
http://www.bloglovin.com/en/widgets
So if you’ll copy+paste this HTML into a Text Widget, you’ll get the button you want that links readers to your feed Bloglovin.
<a class="bloglovin-widget" data-blog-id="13304847" data-img-src="http://www.bloglovin.com/widget/bilder/en/widget.gif?id=13304847" href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/13304847" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bloglovin.com/widget/bilder/en/widget.gif?id=13304847"></a>and I also want an SEO plugin to be more visible on search engines.
From a technical standpoint, we have already implemented the techniques of several SEO plugins into WordPress.com.
The longer your blog exists, the more you post, and the more people who visit it, the higher it will climb in Google’s rankings.
But we do have some additional tips on traffic building and SEO here:
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/seo-quick-tips/I also recommend verifying your site with Google Webmaster tools:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
When you first verify your site they’ll send you an email with some steps to take through Webmaster tools that help ensure your site gets listed accurately.
Best,
-Alex G.
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Thank-you once again Alex for your detailed help and support!
One more question… can I add Amazon Affiliate or Ebay Affiliate ads to my blog? If so, how?
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In general, reputable affiliate programs like those from Amazon and Ebay are great to add to your site, but using them as text links. Not links within images — those will be scraped according to our terms of service.
Some explanation on that here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
So when generating affiliate codes, grab only the link provided by Amazon/Ebay (not a badge or product image) and add that Link into a post/page/widget the same way you’d link to another page in your blog.
Most bloggers on WordPress.com that rely on affiliate links find the best success by adding those links within posts that are reviews of that product.
-Alex G.
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Thanks for all your help with my journey into the blogging world Alex, Happy 2015! Will be bugging you with more questions real soon :-)
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That’s why I’m here! :)
Happy 2015 for you as well, and I look forward to our future conversations.
-Alex G.
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Hi Alex! Hope you’re well.
I need your help customizing my menu.
For example, under “Food” I tried to put a sub-header “Recipes” but when you click on “Recipes” you get all the “Food” tagged articles even though the article is tagged under “Recipes”.
How do I create subheaders?
Also, the pull-down menu is horizontal. Can it be made longer in length like a list style?
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Howdy! Life is good. :)
While you correctly created a “Recipes” sub-category created under Food, you have no posts categorized as “Recipes.” So when you visit the URL (http://thetezzyfiles.com/category/food/recipes/) WordPress finds no content, but since you have some posts tagged as Recipes, WordPress redirects there for the ease of the reader. Since Categories and Tags work together on our backend, this kind of redundancy is built-in… it just made this issue look confusing.
So first, please make a test post and categorize it with your “Recipes” sub-category. Or temporarily add the “Recipes” sub-category to one of your current posts.
Next, let’s get your menu pointing to Recipes (under Food.)
- Go to your Menu settings
- Under Categories, check “Recipes” then click “Add to Menu” (Example)
- Click the arrow in the Recipes box, then click “Up One” (Example)
- Click “Under Food”, this makes it a sub-menu item underneath Food
- Save Menu
Then check out your site, click on your Recipes menu item, and your test post should be the only one to appear.
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