hi
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i am a new user on wordpress, i am looking on opening a forum where visitors can come and share their stories and comment and different stories…
i am new at wordpress, i am only familiar with the shopify platform which is a online store platform. nothing to do with what i need now. so please can you help me out around with this?
Thank youThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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See here https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/p2-breathe/
At present 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.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/
One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-linksWe have a chatbox widget. The Tlk.io widget allows you to embed a web chat in your WordPress.COM hosted blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tlk-io-widget/ There are no other chat options I know of that work on WordPress.COM blogs at this time.
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You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog.
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-settingsIf you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
See:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteThe invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation, the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to log into wordpress.com, return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
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P.S. When you post to these support forums please use descriptive thread titles that indicate what you need help with. Threads titled with hi are usually spam and we are not eager to click into them.
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thank you so much for your quick response
i didn’t know that this question will be posted on a forum, i thought that it will be emailed to the support service -
You are welcome. It is by far quicker to get an answer here than it is to wait in a queue for a Staff response. :)
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all this doesn’t seem to be what i am looking for,
i am not specifically looking for a free wordpress.com and free hosting.
I am willing to pay to have my forum up, i just need to find the right tools to do it and to do it in the right way.
i am looking for something with like a free trial and then if the result is good i will be paying for hosting the price that is needed.thank you so much for your help
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What you are looking for cannot be done here with our without upgrades. The best that can be done is what I posted above.
Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com/
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is there any other platform that you will suggest me to use instead of wordpress?
i don’t want something that is very technical to use…thanks
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