FTP and word press
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hello
can you tell me how i can connect my word press with FTP ?
thank you
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You cannot connect a blog hosted at WordPress.com with FTP. We don’t have that kind of access.
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If you are not hosted on wordpress.com and have another host for your blog fahadkb, check over at http://wordpress.org/support/
If you have a wordpress.com hosted blog, there is no FTP access. There is a good explanation between wordpress.com and wordpress.org in the sticky of this forum.
Trent
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Hi, brand new WordPress.COM user here, trying to port my blog to WordPress.COM.
It’s frustrating that many problems I’ve come up against that the FAQ overlooks, and come here to the forum to research, have had a terse answer like, “Oh, that’s a WordPress.ORG question. Go there and ask. Bye. [resolved]”
The latest question is how to FTP all my media files to my /files/ folder. After several useless threads, I found this one with the requisite .ORG disclamer, but at least a definite statement that FTP isn’t supported here. So, I’m stuck with individual uploads of 90 files. Fun. Could be worse, I suppose.
This is the one answer I’ve found of any use. I’ve also tried to find answers to other Importing issues, such as why I was getting permission errors, and Moveable Type conversion issues. After multiple searches and .ORG dead ends, I turned to Google instead. It helped.
So, this newbie’s experience has been a bit rocky, and the answers I’ve needed haven’t been here. If WordPress.com is looking for any feedback, I suggest answering those .org questions, where possible, in the framework of the .com domain. And explain to the OP that things will be different with their offsite install, etc. That way, folks searching for those same answers for their WordPress.com blogs will get them. If that’s not possible, at least delete those threads so they don’t clutter the search results. Get those answers into the FAQ, too. And finally, make the FAQ hierarchically browseable, or if it already is, make that browser easier to find!
Thanks for listening. I’m looking forward to enjoying a much better blogging experience than my old blogging software. (Which wasn’t MT, that’s only how I’m importing.)
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Thanks for your post! I am sure that others will be able to agree with your frustration, but wordpress.com is always looking for better ways to do things. On that note, when you have your blog up and going here (if not already), send this note to staff through the feedback form in your admin to let them know what you are thinking about things!
Trent
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I understand your frustration but I’m dubious about encouraging the answering of the .org questions here. Quite frankly, most of the people answering the questions here wouldn’t have the faintest idea how to answer the .org questions, and that would lead to the expectation that questions should be answered and increased frustration when they aren’t.
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This forum is for wordpress.com bloggers. It is dedicated to use of the wordpress.com community members. It’s purpose is for asking and answering questions pertaining to wordpress.com wp-MU (multi-user) software.
Expecting wordpress.com community members to share information is one thing. Expecting them to provide emotional support for unhappy campers from the wordpress.org community is quite another.
I have have noticed a minor trend developing where frustrated wordpress.org bloggers are coming to this forum to share their unhappines about the wordpress.org community/environment. To me, as a regular worpress.com community volunteer, this feels, no matter how politely put, like emotional dumping.
I would like to see us politely inform wordpress.org bloggers where their forum is, wish them well, and wave goodbye, without encouraging them to return seeking answers to questions, which as raincoaster has pointed out, we do not have to give.
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