How do I eliminate the blog I created, but create a website?
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I want to get rid of the blog that was created when I first went to wordpress.com and only create a website. I ONLY want a website, but don’t want to lose the name I’ve chosen if I go back and delete the blog (with its associated name). How can I do this? Frustrated…
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Deleting the name is not a good idea, once a name is deleted it is gone forever and can’t be used again.
Hate to tell you, but a blog IS a web site. Just make a blog with a theme that does not look like a “blog” to you. Use Pages, they don’t search very well. Use a theme that lets you use a full width Page
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People way wiser than I say that Pages are not so good, yes I have a few static pages that seem to search OK. But new Posts call up search engines when published and notify the search engines of the new content, Pages need to wait for a search engine to stop by, slower.
The more fresh content on your site (generally Posts) the better search engines see, the more they seem to like a site as a whole.
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A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication.
A website is a page based site designed to operate as a one way means of communication ie. a noticeboard.
Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based. For greater clarity read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
Then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/The only themes we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs are found here http://wordpress.com/themes/
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. Read the comparison > WordPress.com and WordPress.org: The Differences http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Look up Static Front Page.
I run two websites on WordPress.com that are normal sites, not blogs.
http://www.guelphneedlecraft.wordpress.com
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If a website is nothing but a diary, it’s called a blog.
However, it’s possible to have a blog as part of a more-traditional, static site. That’s what I did.
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Do you understand that a blog is a website?
The difference is the structure and you can restructure the post based blogs to become page based websites? -
Do you also know that there is no redundant, outdated and character wasting “www” in any WordPress.com URL? All links that contain the “www” are seamlessly redirected to the appropriate URLs without the “www” in them.
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This is the correct URL for your first blog http://guelphneedlecraft.wordpress.com/ which is a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
There is no domain mapping upgrade for badenstorytellers.com. If you would like to use this domain you will first need to set up domain mapping.
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from. If you have registered a .wordpress.com blog you log in under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchase a domain name by purchasing an annually renewable domain mapping upgrade for the blog. See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
Dashboard > Store > My Upgrades is where you do the primary blog set up knowing it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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Hi TimeThief.
I’m happy with what we have. (Equally importantly, the rest of the guild members are happy.) I was trying to help bronco58.
I’m very glad that WordPress.com does the redirect seamlessly. That’s much easier than explaining “you don’t need the www” to each of the seniors and community newspaper editors I work with regularly. Including it is now habit for me, even when it isn’t necessary.
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