Help with secondary blog
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Hi,
I am going in circles with a second WordPress blog. My first blog site is https://vtteardroptravelers.wordpress.com/ . When I began to set up another (https://wordpress.com/home/ancestorsintheattic575495595.wordpress.com ) it was listed with the first blog site as the author & web address.Here are my frustrations.
1. Is there a way to unlink the two blogs? They are not related really except through the author.
a. The author and website are both listed as VT Teardrop Travelers. Other choices?
b. The readership for the two blogs is different
2. How/where do readers sign up for email notifications? Forgot how i did this in 2017.
3. How does a list of archived posts get generated?
4. I do not wish to go public until I have tidied up the loose ends. The webinar videos have not been helpful.Thanks for any suggestions.
Stewart
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Hi Stewart,
1. Is there a way to unlink the two blogs? They are not related really except through the author.
The sites aren’t actually linked in any way. Meaning, unless you say somewhere publicly that both are yours, like you did here, there’s no way at all for the casual visitor to one site, to discover that you also own the other site. They belong to the same username, but that’s where it ends – they don’t share any data or subscribers with one another.
If you want to completely disassociate the new site from your current username, you can move it to a different account instead, with its own username and email. To do that, log out of this account and create a new account at https://wordpress.com/start/account/user/
Once the new account is created, log back into this account, and transfer the site as explained at https://wordpress.com/en/support/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/. This will completely remove your
vtteardroptravelersaccount as a user on the site, and you’ll need to log into the other account any time you want to do anything on that site.2. How/where do readers sign up for email notifications? Forgot how i did this in 2017.
Any visitor to your site can sign up for email notifications using the WordPress.com follow button that appears bottom-right on your site by default. Someone with a WordPress.com account will be subscribed via the Reader, and they can then also enable email notifications from there if they want to. Someone without a WordPress.com account will be subscribed via email only.
You can also add the subscription form block to the content of any post or page, or to your widget area. This is the new version of the Follow Blog widget, which you would have used previously.
https://wordpress.com/en/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/subscription-form-block/
More details on following blogs here:
https://wordpress.com/en/support/following/
3. How does a list of archived posts get generated?
Automatically :)
The moment you publish a new post, it becomes part of the main post archive on your site (which can be sorted by date), and also of the relevant tag, category and author archives.
If you want the archive displayed on your site, you can use the Archive block in a widget area. It lists the months in which posts were published, linking to the archive for each month.
https://wordpress.com/en/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/archives-block/
You can also use the Blog Posts block, or category pages in the menu, to display posts for a specific category archive:
https://wordpress.com/en/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/blog-posts-block/
https://wordpress.com/en/support/menus/add-categories-to-a-menu/
If you’re looking to display an index of all posts in the archive instead, you can use the archive shortcode in a regular page:
https://wordpress.com/support/archives-shortcode/
Let me know if you have any other questions.
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