How do I get my blog posts to show up on my website? Seems like I have two sites

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  tuf3 · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 3:20 pm

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  I have whiteworksphotography.net as my website. When I add a blog post the url adds word press in the link. I want everything I add to be in one place. Seems as if I have two or three links going on. I can add photos to whiteworksphotography.net and sometimes it shows there and sometimes it doesn’t show at all. I’ve cleared my cache and cookies. Downloaded Google Chrome. If I add a blog, it doesn’t show on my website. It will share on my Facebook page which is fine. I want my blogs to show on both sites. I want to make sure that everything is in one place and when I got to my website, I will see what I am updating… in one place. I don’t know that people are seeing what photos I add and my blogs or not. Thanks!

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  tuf3 · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 3:22 pm

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  I have whiteworksphotography.net as my website. When I add a blog post the url adds word press in the link. I want everything I add to be in one place. Seems as if I have two or three links going on. I can add photos to whiteworksphotography.net and sometimes it shows there and sometimes it doesn’t show at all. I’ve cleared my cache and cookies. Downloaded Google Chrome. If I add a blog, it doesn’t show on my website. It will share on my Facebook page which is fine. I want my blogs to show on both sites. I want to make sure that everything is in one place and when I got to my website, I will see what I am updating… in one place. I don’t know that people are seeing what photos I add and my blogs or not. Thanks!

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm

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  Howdy!

  The way WordPress.com works is that we serve all the content from your “example.wordpress.com” address, and then serve the custom domain on top of it. This keeps your site working with all of WordPress.com’s resources, and if you ever choose not to use your custom domain (or to move it somewhere else), keeps all you data available at the free URL.

  So one of the side effects is that if you visit a link like this one, with WordPress.com in it:

  Where are you, sunshine?

  You’ll just get redirected to your custom domain version:

  http://whiteworksphotography.net/2015/02/12/where-are-you-sunshine/

  No readers will ever need to see the *.wordpress.com URLs but you. :)

  If someone happens to know the free URL that includes WordPress.com, it will display, but it just redirects to your custom domain version.

  If I add a blog, it doesn’t show on my website.

  This is happening because you don’t have a Posts page declared in your reading settings:

  https://whiteworksphotography.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  Try creating a Page called “Blog,” then visit those settings and set “Blog” as the Posts page. All your posts will be displayed there.