How do I change my blog to a website?
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I want my site to be more flexible about adding pictures, videos, etc.
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A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
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, and as others do not backlink to pages, 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/
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/Your detailed theme description page with set-up instructions is here https://wordpress.com/themes/writr/ and the live demo site is here https://writrdemo.wordpress.com/
All related support docs are at http://support.wordpress.com
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re: uploading images
Make sure you are running a browser and version of it found at http://browsehappy.com or upgrade your browser version.
For uploading images into posts and pages see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/adding-images-to-posts-or-pages/
Here are more details about the options for uploading images http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/For troubleshooting images see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/
If required post into the sticky thread at the top of the forums https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/media-uploading-issues?replies=43
re: embedding videos
We embed videos into pages and posts. The video embeds in posts and pages that WordPress.com supports for all of our blogs – no upgrade required are found here.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/Video shortcodes are here http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/#video
Note to post your own videos requires a videopress upgrade unless they are on youtube or another source site that is supported and the videopress support doc location is https://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/
Example:
For youtube embedding into wordpress.COM blogs see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/For using the shortcode see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#embedding-with-a-shortcode
For troubleshooting see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/#troubleshooting
NOTE: If you are trying to embed a youtube channel code that will not work.
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