Custom domain

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  leiladqifit · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 6:04 pm

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  Hi,

  I’ve a custom domain; is that the same as a website? If not, how can I make it into a website?
  Also, whenever I share my domain name with others, no picture is shown! How can I change that?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  I’ve a custom domain; is that the same as a website?

  No, a custom domain is a website address. It is like a house address.

  A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.

  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
  and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  Your theme specific details and set up instructions are at https://wordpress.com/themes/button and the live demo site is here https://buttondemo.wordpress.com/

  See also: https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 6:48 pm

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  Also, whenever I share my domain name with others, no picture is shown! How can I change that?

  Know that we have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include.

  See http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  Re: Facebook
  Sometimes these help and sometimes they don’t
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

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