Hosting
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Hello,
I’m converting from iWEB (be gentle) to either WordPress or Sandvox. Its been a wee bit of frustration inserting ‘comments’ with HTML snippets for a few years.
In trying to decide between moving everything over to here or another website builder, first.. can anyone tell me how WordPress handles hosting for other than purchased through WP?
I own/lease my own server /hosting space with A2 hosting. Will WP play nicely for A2?
What type of account(Premium/free) do you think I’ll need? I just do travel blogging and DESPERATELY ant comments to look professional… it is my understanding that WP is topnotch for blogging.
Thank you in advance!
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WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and different. There are restrictions when it comes to being hosted by WordPress.COM that you need to become clear about. Have you read this comparison? http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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You’re welcome. Now you understand that this is not possible on a WordPress.COM blog:
Its been a wee bit of frustration inserting ‘comments’ with HTML snippets for a few years.
Here’s some more reading you will want to do before making any decisions.
WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/ Fore security reasons, there is no blogger access to the HTML or the php that underlies our blogs at WordPress.COM.
See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.
See here for details in regard to all available upgrades. http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/
See here for the Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
Note that the free plan and the Premium plan do not allow you to upload your own themes or plugins. WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
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Really liked the 8-min video thank you.
As far as domain names.. since you are using WordPress.com and have ‘one cool site’ as yours, may I assume you’re at least opting for $13 a year to keep your own name?
My current hosting with A2 is three-year contract expires in February..sounds like it might be time to renew anyway just with WordPress.com
Hmm. My blogging is just for friends and family keep up with our travels -it’s really very simple. May I send you a link to one of my blogs so can you tell me if you think WordPress.com would work with something like this? If so, is there a private email address to which I could send the URL? Thank you in advance.
Again with the travel blogs that I’ve maintained for the last eight years, it’s getting very hard for people to leave comments-that’s what’s driving me to switch formats.
-Bob
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@TT has domain mapping & No Ads (as do I on the site linked to my name) (part of how you get “free” hosting here is WordPress.COM will sometimes put ads on your site to help pay the bills – they should be family friendly)
Your domain would need to be registered not here – WordPress.COM is not set up to accept incoming domain name transfers.
The biggest issue new people have here is selling their own ads (not permitted) –
Just post a link to your site and someone will take a look at it
Lots of travel blogs here & blogs just for family & friends
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Auxclass.. thank you. here is one:
http://bobandholly.us/ENGLAND-VSOE_Mar_2014/ENGLAND-VSOE_Mar_2014.html
– This brings up my second most important question (after comments):
The link above is simply one trip; I have an index (master travel homepage) which contains links to every trip about which I have written.How does WordPress.com treat multiple blogs (my case, one per trip)?
What I be able to create different sites within one domain that are not necessarily accessible to all. Example: I may share all my trips with one person only one trip with a certain group of people, and to the latter, may not wish them to have access to other sites?Thank you.
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Lets see what I can do
sharing with just one person is difficult here – that would be a password protected Post (or you can have a second free blog that is private and only invite in certain people
All Posts (articles) go to a single main page – (look at TT’s site or mine)
BUT – you can sort the Posts using Categories or Tags – so yes they can be sorted by trips, towns, countries, years etc. with the use of a Widget or Custom Menu (technical details, but just to let you know that the sort can be done)
Not sure about how to move the content – does your current site offer the ability to export and xml file?
As for the content – lots of sites here that are the same as what your looks like
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Ok.. So for example.. Your captain mike site would need to contain everything you wished to write about? If you chose to make a separate site about aviation safety instead of boating safety would it have to be embedded there? Perhaps this will explain my scenario better:
If you were to just enter after the BobandHolly.US, you’d be taken to a page that does nothing for you except say contact administrator; that’s my main index – my work around page to people just entering my domain name. Every trip has its own rather convoluted (a2 hosting/iWeb hybrid) URL that follows after the domain name.
I just send any given full URL to whomever I want to have access to it. That way if it were simply posted without my permission and somebody just used the domain name, they wouldn’t go anywhere.
Can i be able to use wordpress.com to set up multiple sites like this, where if somebody just backed up to my domain name it wouldn’t get access to everything else?
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yes my site has everything I have written on boating safety – If I want to do aviation I have some options,
Free options:
Just start writing about aviation, and mix that in with boating and sort with a Category so someone could look only at “aviation” by clicking on a link – I could start a new free blog say – “captnmikeaviation.wordpress.com (I did that with the photos I used to have on the site (captnmikephotos.wordpress.com and exported the photos to the new site to move personal outings off captnmike.com) – both are open to the public with no restrictions other than a few password protected posts.
not free – map a new subdomain (aviation.captnmike.com – then the site is bigger to search engines but that would cost and extra $ 13. – / year
The tough part I see is the selective hiding of your trips – you can hide Pages with the use of a Custom Menu – but I am not sure if there is a limit on the number of pages on a site (note – Pages and Posts are not the same here – even though we refer to displaying a Page of Posts sorted by Category)
There might be some sort of Plugin for the selective hiding of Posts if you have your own host and a WordPress.ORG install – but that defeats your desire to make your hosting much simpler
For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
May I ask why the selective obscuring of the trips? the link I went to looked like a standard travel things to me.
Hope this helps a bit – maybe someone else has other thoughts
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Auxclass..
Thank you for your input :)
The only I sometimes choose selective distribution of a site is that newer friends, until I know them well enough, may not get access to something older…akin to Facbook’s limiting of past posts.
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You be welcome
I don’t do FacePlant – but there is no way of limiting a visitor to only say the last six months unless they have the secret handshake with blogs here
good luck
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