How do I build a webpage using your product?
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Where do I begin? I have an account set up but I don’t have a blog nor know what one is. I want to replace an HTML only website that I have on another host so I don’t need to buy hosting services from you. I can’t find anything that tells me what to do with anything. I went through your 306 themes and none of them appear useful to me. You give NO information about how to change them or use them or anything else. I am very disappointed with the lack of support.
You use vocabulary whose context is unknown to me. “dashboard” outside of an automotive use has no meaning or understanding to me. I read the “Getting Started” stuff including the “Comfy” one and it may as well have been written in Klingon. -
There is no means of importing the content from any HTML sited into a WordPress.COM blog. What’s required to import is an XML file of the content. There is no means of bloggers accessing the underlying HTML and PHP in any WordPress.COM blog. Our blogs on this multiuser platform are not free standing. They share a common architecture. You are posting to the wrong support forum and we cannot help you here at all.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password -
I have read about the differences between …com and …org. You misunderstood what I was saying. I don’t want to import the HTML into …com. I mentioned the HTML only because that’s the only thing I know anything about when it comes to building webpages. I am trying to find out if WordPress.com has the tools and capability to allow me to easily create a new website, manage navigation, load photos, change frequently evolving text content, etc.
I can’t seem to find the beginning despite reading all the stuff on getting started. I don’t want nor need a blog and I don’t want to spend
$60 when I don’t need website hosting or domain name management.
Perhaps it’s as simple as this:
CAN I USE WORDPRESS.COM TO BUILD A WEBSITE WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING? -
I am trying to find out if WordPress.com has the tools and capability to allow me to easily create a new website, manage navigation, load photos, change frequently evolving text content, etc. … CAN I USE WORDPRESS.COM TO BUILD A WEBSITE WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING?
WordPress.COM is a turnkey operation. You can get a free site here, have it free hosted and re-structure to create a website here, but you cannot build one from scratch. The latter is what WordPress.ORG software installs are for.
A blog is a website.
Blogs are interactive website structures.
Websites are one way communication noticeboards.A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one way noticeboard. As the structure is page based, and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/ and http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
We frequently get people here who think they can design their own sites and themes. This is not possible here at WordPress.COM but it is possible if you hire a web host and set up a WordPress.ORG install.
The only themes we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs for security reasons and we cannot:
upload any third party themes,
create child themes,
create our own themes,
edit templates,
create own own layouts,
or use stylesheets from other themes.http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/There is no upgrade you can purchase that changes that.
On one hand, none of the characteristic “blog” features like categories, tags, authors, dates, etc. can be removed from a free hosted WordPress.com blog, without purchasing an annually renewable custom design upgrade and doing the required CSS editing.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/On the other hand, one can edit a WordPress.org theme free of charge. http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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yes you can build a web site / blog here free of charge – but if you want to use your existing domain name on your new site here, it will cost you $13.-/yr for Domain Mapping so people see your custom domain name in their browser address bar when they visit your new site here
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to thistimethisspace: I only understood about half of your latest reply. I have a website for our HAM radio club that is up and running. We pay for hosting and domain name already. As webmaster, I update the website about once a week as things change and situations warrant. However, the website is limited because my knowledge is limited to HTML. I have been told that there are websites where I can go and build new webpages in minutes using built-in templates. This is what I had thought WordPress.com provided.
to auxclass: I would not put a new website on any WordPress server because I have unlimited space available on my existing server. -
to auxclass: I have been through learn.wordpress.com and all it talks about are blogs. I need to build about 12 pages of a website and all the navigation and everything else. I am not creating a blog. Please see http://www.nm5hd.com and you will see what I am trying to replace.
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to auxclass: I would not put a new website on any WordPress server because I have unlimited space available on my existing server.
Then you want a WordPress.ORG software install on your current server – you need to make friends at WordPress.ORG for help doing that – The WordPress.COM software is different and only works for sites on WordPress.COM
As noted above: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
The WordPress.ORG software will do what you want to do easily – but you will need to learn a bit on how the WordPress.ORG software works – some but not all of the tutorial I linked to will help a bit
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As I said above you can restructure the post based blog to become a paged based website.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/ and http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
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Either version of WordPress – .ORG or .COM can do what you are now doing without breaking a sweat –
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The “blog” thing with the regular themes would look better than you now have – make a few pages and you are pretty much good to go – I don’t like the large fonts you are using, but that is me
</opinion>Suggestion – get a free blog here and spend a few couple of hours making a couple of pages and posts and see how you like the look and feel
Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> either discourage search engines or set to Private so that Search Engines don’t start indexing your test site
Costs you nothing to test drive things here
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to thistimethisspace: the stuff about “post based” and “paged based” is a big part of what I did not understand in your previous reply. I do not have a degree in computer science nor any formal instruction is web-design or website creation.
Are you saying that I could create a multi-page blog and then just convert it to a website? How would I make the frequent changes I need to make to support ongoing activities? How would I handle navigation?
The specialized jargon doesn’t mean anything to me. When reading the “getting started” stuff, it talks about a dashboard but I don’t know what that is in this context. -
Post based sites – loved by search engines.
Page based sites – not loved by search engines.
Is that simple enough?
If it is not clear yet then read my post that I have linked to twice now at http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/ -
to auxclass: Thanks for the suggestions. One other question. What does this mean: Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> ?
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You make changes by going to the Page or Post editor and making changes about like Word-processing
Posts search well with search engines – Pages not so much – allow me to skip the why at this point
Advantage of any “WordPress” version – you can make Posts every time your group does something, has a meeting etc. That will help search engines know about what you are doing and more people should find your group by search engines
Also Posts can be subscribed to – so your members get the equivalent of a newsletter built into any site here
Visit my site if you want – the “Articles” are Posts – some of the links at the top are Pages (About, Other Projects – the ones that don’t have what looks like a date in the URL)
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What does this mean: Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> ?
Makes sense after you register a blog and can see what a Dashboard looks like
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/#site-visibility
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to thistimeethisspace: I read your linked articles and some others linked therein and found some of it helpful, eventually.
I am so frustrated that I have spent hours trying to do something and have absolutely nothing to show for it. None of the info I have found shows me anything about how to get started, i.e.: how do I get a page that I can do anything with? Where can I find a list of the tools that I can use and what they do? Everything talks about all the stuff you can add to pages and changes to pages but nothing I have found tells me how to get the first page when I am starting up.
Thank you for listening but I don’t think I can use something as difficult to follow as WordPress. Nothing is intuitive or straightforward or self-explanatory. There must be easier products to use available. -
By default the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post not a page the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
For creating a post see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
For creating a page see here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-pageFor editing see:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
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have you registered a blog yet?
If not – you can’t get started and nothing we say here will make any sense until you have a blog with a Dashboard
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http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page
read both of these but they have no meaning. I don’t have anything with menu boxes.
Except for the 2 links about editing, I have read all the other material in the links you provided. I don’t have an Admin page or any other page because I haven’t found the directions to get a page.
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