Feeding My Blog To My Own Domain
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I’ve recently moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress and love the change. I’ve also recently purchased my own domain from GoDaddy (www.bleubuddha.com) and used their website designer to create my own webpage. I now want to feed my blog posts from WordPress so that they appear on my website. Is there a way to do that? I subscribed to mapping but it appears that directs my domain to my WordPress site which is not what I want to do. I am sure there is a reasonable easy fix to this and its the last thing I need to do to accomplish my blog goals. Can anyone help direct me? I would be eternally grateful!
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This is the RSS Feed URL for your blog posts http://bleubuddha.wordpress.com/feed/
If your website can draw from an RSS Feed URL that is all you need.
If it is not so equipped we do not provide support for any sites except WordPress.COM hosted blogs. In that case if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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So wonderful of you to respond so quickly. I was looking for this RSS Feed URL so I appreciate it; unfortunately, when I use that, it looks the same way that it did when I used the feed from blogger. I want my site to look as though the blog is on the site, not fed from another place. I’m so disappointed.
Thanks!
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Sorry but the feed will not be able to be used to create a duplicate content site. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en When you create duplicate sites what happens is the bth suffer in the SERPs (search engine page results)
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You could map your blog as a sub-domain with an address someting like blog.bleubuddha.com – then it would look like part of your regular web site to visitors and search engines – you will have the issue of the blog might not look quite the same as your web site (colors etc.) – that bothers some people and you could try the CSS upgrade as part of the Premium Upgrade at $99.-/yr and do some fancy styling of the look of your blog here to maybe match closer to your web site – or pick a theme here that you like
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I’m perplexed as to how other bloggers do it …. people have to be running into the same issues I am. Your suggestions are good Auxclass but might be a little advanced for me at this stage. I did the $13 mapping option and misunderstood that it would direct my URL to my WordPress site so I cancelled the mapping. It still hasn’t reverted back but I imagine that might take 24 hours or so. I’m really disappointed as I designed a site format that I LOVE…if only I could get the apperance of my blog feed to look right. It doesn’t have to be perfect, I just want it to be a whole post as opposed to little snippets with links.
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Some people drive their whole web site with the WordPress.ORG software.
Others put their entire site on WordPress.COM
If you have a specific site or two you have in mind as a sample, post a link here and someone can take a look and see if they can see how the example site is done.
For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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I’m going to look at the difference between the two and try to get a bit more familiar.
Here are two that are a good example of what I am striving for…
http://findinghomefarms.com/
http://cityfarmhouse.com/I will appreciate your interest in helping me.
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Both of those are WordPress.ORG installs on their own host.
However much if not all of what they are doing can also be done on WordPress.COM. The link I gave you above will help with the differences. You have fewer themes here but of the 300 or so active themes you should be able to find on that you like the looks of
Good luck
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You have been HUGELY helpful…the most help I have found in days. Thank you so very much. I’m leaning toward the wordpress.org since I already have my site all built. Do you see any downsides to do that?
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No matter which version you use – you will still need to do some work on the look of the site when you start using a WordPress theme (either .ORG or .COM)
A .ORG has more flexibility but is more work. There are some limits here (you can’t sell ads for instance) – here the Staff do the updates for you so you have less work here.
I have simple needs and used to have a .ORG install but problems with my host, so I moved here about 4 or 5 years ago to get out of some of the webmaster duties. I still use my old host for email service & as my ISP. I like the part of not needing to worry about traffic overloading my site here and slowing things down with too many users.
Glad I could help a bit – maybe think things over a bit for a few days and see what you think – there are many smart people in this forum that can also help if you have more questions.
Good luck with your site.
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