Connecting blog to Volusion Store
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I am just curious what the best way is to connect a blog to my Volusion web store. Any insight to the best method would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
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kinnek21, I found some instructions from Volusion about how to do this. I’ve modified and added them below with the info for your WordPress.com blog, so that you can just follow them step-by-step:
- Sign in to my.volusion.com, and click on Manage DNS.
- Below your current DNS records, click Add New Record.
- In the first blank, type “blog” or the subdomain name you want to use for the blog.
- In the Record Type dropdown, select CNAME.
- Enter your WordPress blog name “mochamagic1” in the first field and “wordpress.com” into the second field. Click Save.
- Go to https://wordpress.com/plans/mochamagic1.wordpress.com (sign-in to wordpress.com if needed). Then click “Add a Domain” at the top. Now select the “Map it” button inside the “Already own a domain?” option.
- Enter the URL you want your blog to have in the Add a Domain field and click Add Domain to Blog. For example, “blog.mochamagic.com” and complete the process of checking out (it’ll cost $13 (USD)/yr).
- If everything is configured correctly, you will be prompted to pay for the upgrade and complete the mapping process.
It looks like a nice site! Hopefully business is goo. Let me know if I can help further.
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Let us be clear on the fact that WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are separate and different.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
https://mochamagic1.wordpress.com/ is a WordPress.COM hosted blog. It is not a self hosted WordPress.ORG software install.
WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year annually renewable Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.
(1) Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/(2) If you set up an Ecommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
NOTE: Aside from the plugins I linked to for Ecommerce blogs with the Business upgrade only, there is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs, and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/A self-hosted WordPress.ORG site is an alternative that may suit you. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. Read the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ and get web hosting here http://wordpress.org/hosting
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@timethief. While you’re correct in all you say, I don’t think that’s what was asked for. He’s got a wp.com blog, and a Volusion estore. He wants to “connect” them. The method I provided allows kinnek21 to run the wp.com blog from the same domain (though a different subdomain) as the Volusion store. After that, all they need is to add links from Volusion to the blog, and vice-versa.
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