How are indiv. upgrade fees handled if I upgrade to Pro or Biz?
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If I upgrade to Pro (or Business) – do I get a rebate or roll-into for remaining time on individual upgrades (i.e., space, custom css, domain name, etc.)? — They come due for renewal at different times, and none soon, btw.
ALSO – why does “.wordpress” appear vs. the “plain” domain I paid for?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Your site addandsomuchmore.wordpress.com resolves to your custom domain addandsomuchmore.com. You have to keep the WordPress.com domain (even though no one will see it) because that’s the underlying site where your content is housed, and will continue to work if your domain expires.
If you purchase the Premium or Business bundle, all of your existing upgrades will roll into that. So if you have an upgrade expiring in March 2014, and purchase the bundle today, the upgrade will now expire on August 2, 2014 instead. Your domain will also get an extra bump on the renewal since it, unlike the other upgrades, cannot have a modified expiration date – so you will get a little extra time on that.
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RE: upgrade
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Thanks for replying, Jackie – but I’m still not clear enough to budget effectively.I want to add VideoPress ($60), and am trying to figure out whether it makes more sense (overall) to upgrade or to simply add that feature. I don’t really understand how your example translates to my situation.
I still have:
* 6 months before my domain-name expiration (3/16/14)
* 7 on the custom CSS (4/24/14), and
* 9 on the space upgrade (6/27/14)Figured monthly & without adjustment, that could mean $39.00 of unused services, were I to pay $99 for the Premium Service immediately — which means I would be paying an additional $9 for the no ads feature that I might buy stand-alone for $30 — not saving 40%, as detailed on the features page.
$99 minus $39 is $60 – the cost of a VideoPress upgrade for 12 months, with no loss of money already paid for premium services that would now be part of the bundle — plus my account is debited only $60, not $99 at this time.
See what I mean? I can’t figure out the math on this upgrade path, nor am I clear about expiration dates from your explanation. Can you be more specific about the “extra bump on the renewal ” that I can translate to what to do, since not all of my current services expire in the same month?
ALSO, are you saying that I purchase a $99 “bundle” and still manage each expiration separately, since I’m coming into it with features already in place? Surely not, but I want to be clear before purchase – either way.
Thanks for your help with this.
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RE: ADDandSoMuchMore.WordPress.com
When I comment on other blogs and websites and attempt to “sign in with [my] WordPress account” – it never accepts my “naked” domain name. I get an error message that I do not own my own domain unless I add “.WordPress,” effectively making me wonder about the value of purchasing a domain name upgrade in the first place.
Have I neglected to set a flag or fill in a form in “my account” that is causing this error message, or am I misunderstanding something fundamental here?
Thanks!
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If you purchase a Premium bundle on 9/6/13, it will expire on 9/6/14. All of the upgrades associated with the bundle will then expire on that date. If you had one that was expiring in March, it will now expire in September instead.
When you sign in to WordPress.com, you should be using your username or email address and associated password, not your blog address.
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Thanks, Jackie. I can see how that simplifies things at the WordPress end and makes keeping up with expiration dates easier on mine. I will have to think about its implications otherwise, since I will be “leaving money on the table” as a premium or the convenience, but I believe I understand now how it works.
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We’re still not on the same page with my other question, however.Sign-in to WordPress.com itself is not the issue – I have always signed in as you suggest (successfully, with only a few glitches that have been resolved).
I do venture beyond the confines of WordPress.com, however, and that’s where I choose to “lose” the “dot wordpress” id (what I thought I was paying for with a custom domain name upgrade).
THERE (not here), one must often sign in to comment, often to view content, even on sites that aren’t set up as “membership” sites per se. (Take some time to try it on a number of sites around the internet if you’re not sure what I mean.)
As it stands NOW, I can sign in using FaceBook, LinkedIn etc. (which requires exposing my contacts to whatever the sign-in format chooses to do with them (which I never do by policy – my contacts did not agree to share their contacts with anyone else I might interact with, and SPAM is SPAM, regardless of loopholes set up to work around it).
Some sites are set up to allow sign-in and validation of your identity with Disqus, WordPress, etc. THAT is the crux of my question.
I would like to sign in THERE using my WordPress id, but I do NOT want to have “dot wordpress” show up around the ‘net as my domain name — WHY I paid for the upgrade. Yet, when I use my “naked” domain name, I get an error message.
I’m looking for whatever it is I need to do to easily USE the custom domain name upgrade I paid for through WordPress so I don’t have to use Disqus-like work-arounds — keeping track of a bazillion passwords or messing with Captcha nonsence, which I find difficult to read.
IS there a way?
Hope that clarifies my question. Thanks again.
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The best solution here would be to change your underlying WordPress.com address to something you prefer:
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