Help :) Plug-ins WordPress.com…
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Of course the live chat is always there when I don’t need help and now that I do and want it, it’s not popping up…of course…anywoo…
so I have 2 separate blogs now on my wordpress account and have that all sorted out… the second one I want to use as an ecommerce site which apparently you can only do with a plug-in like WooCommerce, but I can’t do plugins with a .com site it has to be .org (please correct me if I’m wrong)
someone told me I can keep things how they are, sign up with a company like DreamHost not for my first one, but just for the one I want to sell things on, and once I do that, it’s basically just like having a .org site where I can get the plug-in I want (WooCommerce) and make the ecommerce site I want..
so all I want to know is – is that all correct?
if so or if not, is that better than converting the one site to a .org site and if that’s the case, what does that involve?
Thanks.
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Hi there,
Woo Commerce can be run only on self hosted WordPress.ORG installs only. 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=1See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.
Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/Note that each upgrade bundle applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed.
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.
A self-hosted WordPress site might be right for 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. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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.
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wow you are fast and thank you so much…
so the big question then is – how would I take the .com site I want as ecommerce site and turn it into .org site? (If you mentioned that above I do apologize I did check out all the links and didn’t see it)
also, with the .org sites do you have to start from the ground up? Clearly I’m not that tech-savvy lol I know what I want but unfortunately probably couldn’t do that myself…
thank you!
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also, would it still show up on my .com dashboard or I would have to keep logging into the .org site to access it? not a big deal just wondering.
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so the big question then is – how would I take the .com site I want as ecommerce site and turn it into .org site?
Here’s a summary of the steps you need to take to move your content and your domain mapping.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and purchase a domain.
2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
http://wordpress.org/themes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/3. To move your content you need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme and widgets as they cannot be exported. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.
4. WordPress.com is the top level domain here and all blogs hosted by WordPress.com are on .wordpress.com sub-domains.
(a) Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/(b) Or if you have domain mapping then see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/#change-name-servers-to-point-the-domain-outside-of-wordpress-com and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/
5. Transfer subscribers. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/
6. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Alternatively you can purchase a Guided Transfer and Staff will do the move and set up for you http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/
WordPress.com and WordPress.org have different log-ins and run different versions of themes with same names. 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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well I actually haven’t done any work on the site because I didn’t realize to get plug-ins I need a .org site… so I guess the “transfer” won’t be complicated lol…
is there a way to just cancel the site I just opened would the domain open back up so I could just do it through .org because there really is nothing to transfer over?
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Why don’t you just set it to Private? That’ll take it off search engines faster than deleting it.
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I am speaking with someone at BlueHost so I guess the best idea is to migrate my original site over there and then start up the second site there since they host multiple sites so it’s easy, have both my sites in one place…. and then I can add the plug-in to my second site where I want to sell items….
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