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  byzantinedream · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 10:47 pm

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  I don’t see the feature where people are allowed to comment on a blog post.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 10:59 pm

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  Click any post title and scroll to the end of it https://byzantinedream.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/friday-roundup/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:05 pm

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  By default all WordPress blog have open comments on all pages and posts. unless we use the P2 theme or P2 breathe theme which are Twitter-like theme the front pages of our blogs showcase content and comments are collapsed on that page and you cannot change this. The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress. By clicking the post title or the comments link the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display.

  In a new blog one does not have many posts or comments. In an established blog if the comments did not collapse on the front page it would become a mile long in no time flat and page loading time is a page ranking factor. We have only seconds before visitors refuse to wait and click out.

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  byzantinedream · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:15 pm

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  Thank you. I also need to know how to re-direct people from my old blog at blogger to my new wordpress blog. How do I do that? And when would I delete my blog at blogger?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:18 pm

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  how to re-direct people from my old blog at blogger to my new wordpress blog.

  Publish a post on the Blogger blog that directs all visitors to the WordPress.COM blog.

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  byzantinedream · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:21 pm

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  Thank you. Do I give it sometime then before I delete my blogger account and blog?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:23 pm

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  Yes. I would also tell visitor to the blogspot site to subscribe to the new wordpress site as the blogger site will be closed down ie. made private in 30 days time.

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  byzantinedream · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:26 pm

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  Got it, thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2016 at 11:28 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Additional information:
  You can create a Subscribe page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

  re: social networking
  See also:
  Publicize https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
  Sharing https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/