Concrete5 and the WP addon
-
I am having no luck installing WordPress on my Concrete5 website. I’m following the directions here: http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/wordpress-for-concrete5/documentation/ and I’m just stuck at number 2. Please tell me what on earth to do. thank you
kendal
Blog url: http://sansfromageblog.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
my Concrete5 website
We cannot help you here at WordPress.com with that site as it’s not being hosted by WordPress.com and we run on different software. This is the correct forum for your software http://wordpress.ORG/support/
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: The Differences -
So… my blog at sansfromage.wordpress.com …. has to be dealt with somehow at wordpress.org ?
-
No. This blog http://sansfromageblog.wordpress.com/ is a free hosted WordPress.com blog. Support for it is here.
You said “Concrete5 website” and we don’t provide support for any sites that are not being hosted by WordPress.com on this support forum. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot install anything into them. You canot use that marketplace add-on on a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
-
Well it’s not “on” the blog. The blog would be “on” the Concrete5 site… my website… http://www.sansfromage.com . They sell the WordPress app for $32 to integrate your WordPress blog into their templates on your own website. So how would I do this? I just started the blog here. Luckily it’s only a day old so there’s not much to move if I have to go elsewhere. But I still don’t understand wordpress.org . I’m not interested in trying to figure out how to stop spam or do some fiddley coding, because I have no clue how to.
I’m fairly certain WordPress gets that $32 (or a good portion of it) and are in on this whole thing, so…. what am I supposed to do, other than ask for a refund and head to Tumblr? lol -
This sounds like a question for Concrete5 as this has nothing to do with free hosted WordPress blogs.
Considering Step One of the installion mentions downloading WordPress from WordPress.ORG you need to direct your questions to their support forums.
You’ve misunderstood what the app actually does and it has nothing to do with free hosted blogs.
-
-
Yeah, I’m trying to ask them but the Concrete5 forum people just tell folks with questions about WordPress to go ask WordPress. So here I am….
Guess I’ll head to the org.
All I understand is that the app makes it possible for you to put your WordPress blog onto your own website in a way that it blends in with the templates offered by Concrete5. There was no mention of whether it’s wordpress.com or .org ….
I read the differences. I don’t want to monitor spam and all that junk. I know nothing about coding.
-
-
It mentions it in step one by giving you the link to download it from WordPress.org. Downloading WordPress doesn’t mean create a free blog.
WordPress.Com blogs are hosted here and are free. WordPress.Org blogs are hosted on your own privately bought FTP server. I hope you find a better answer at WordPress.Org’s forums.
If you don’t know anything about coding you’d be better off hiring someone to do it for you.
-
where does it say that?
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/wordpress-for-concrete5/
-
With what dinero? lol.
I don’t understand though. My friend and I got our last WordPress blog to be on our website. Granted it wasn’t as integrated as I would like or as I hope Concrete5 can make it, but still, look:
http://sidewalksuperheroes.com/blog/
on our website.
-
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/wordpress-for-concrete5/documentation/ (The original link you provided)
1. Install WordPress
This isn’t as hard as it may sound, so don’t worry.
If you already have WordPress installed, great! You can skip this step altogether.
You can download WordPress by going to http://www.wordpress.org/download. It is easy to install. Extract the ZIP file and upload it to a directory on your server.
The last WordPress blog you mentioned is a WordPress.org self hosted blog, not a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
-
But it doesn’t specify that BEFORE you buy the thing. :-P
I know Blogger used to let you do what I want to do. Wonder if they still do. I could go there. Because I’m not paying for a blog….
Refund time…..
-
I’m just going off of the information you originally provided us with. Most websites usually don’t need specify this as it’s usually common knowledge that you can’t host WordPress.com blogs anywhere else other than WordPress.com. You may not even need to pay any more considering you have your own web server, I’m not an expert with WordPress.org though which is why I blog here so it’s worth asking them on their support forums before you do anything. Be sure to ask for your refund from Concrete5 as it’s them you’ve paid your money to.
-
Yeah… I’ll look into it a bit more. I did post on their forums, but I haven’t had a reply yet. It’s almost midnight here, so perhaps in the morning they’ll have an answer for me. I just wanted an easy set-up. :-/
- The topic ‘Concrete5 and the WP addon’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 