How to Add a New WordPress.com Blog / Site
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I watched the video that is presented with ‘Can I Create a New Website or Blog on my WordPress.com Account’ and, yet I have a couple other questions that weren’t addressed:
(1) Can I use the same email address that I am using with my current WordPress.com Website for my second and, possibly third WordPress.com Blog / Wesbites or, is it only designed for TWO WordPress.com Blog / Websites?
(2) What if I want to create two additional WordPress.com Blog / Websites and, the second would be identical as the first that I am using with the same graphic BUT, a different title, whereas the second new WordPress.com Blog / Website, will have a different name, (as the video only mentioned two WordPress.com Blog / Websites. the current and the new one) and, a different graphic?(3) Lastly using this website, it mentions that there is no theme for my current WordPress.com Blog / Website (https://www.wpbeginner.com/tools/wordpress-theme-detector/) and yet when I went to me own website to find out what I initially used to create my theme, it mentions (https://wordpress.com/theme/exford/mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com), so unsure why one WordPress.com Website has no record of my ‘Exford Theme’, whereas mentioned the other website does show the theme that I am currently using. Why would that happen?
Site: https://mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com.
WP.com: Yes
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1. and 2. There’s no limit to how many sites you can have under one WordPress.com account. You can add more sites via https://wordpress.com/start
3. WP Beginner is actually not affiliated with us. It’s more closely affiliated with the self-hosted WordPress software from WordPress.org. To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/
Please let us know if you have any more questions!
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macmanx
Thanks for your response!
In reference to your response, there was no answer to question #1, as to the email address, that I am currently using (Outlook.com for all my responses from yourselves and countless others that have read my articles on my WordPress.com Blog / Website). What I don’t know is whether I can continue using the same email for the two soon to be created WordPress.com Blog / Websites or only for the original and a second with “almost the same title”? (NOTE: One of the soon to be created blog / websites will have the same graphic as the original blog / website titled “https://mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com/ with a slight change in the actual name…removing “US Veterans” and inserting a different word for the title, which I believe I can use the same email address. It’s the third blog / website that will be a completely different name, with different subject matter, that I am wondering if I need to create a new email address, as that wasn’t discussed in the video.)
So, do you believe I can use the same email address with Outlook.com for all three blog / websites or, would it be preferred to create a separate email address with Outlook.com for the third and totally different Blog / Website?
Your thoughts please?
Thanking you ahead of time.
Mabuhay US Veterans
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Yes, that’s what I meant in my answer to question 1.
To be clear, we only allow one account per email address here, but there is no limit to how many WordPress.com sites you can add under one account.
So, you could have one account with your email address, and all of your sites under that account.
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macmanx
One other thing, that I forgot to mention.
In reference to what you stated in your response (paragraph #3), and I quote “WP Beginner is actually not affiliated with us. It’s more closely affiliated with the self-hosted WordPress software from WordPress.org. To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/”, end of quote.
Yes, I know that WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities and, I prefer not having anything to do with WordPress.org, as it requires you to use a “Hosting Company” (such as BlueHost), which is what I want to steer clear of. So, I appreciate that you clarified this in your response to me.
My personal thoughts the first time I started using WordPress.com and, researching WordPress Articles, was why I might be reading what was suspected to be a WordPress.com Article, was in fact (half way down the page), dealing with WordPress.org. I wrote a message about this same issue (using this Forum), asking why someone t WordPress, can’t clean up what has been written, ensuring that WordPress Customers fully understand that what they are reading, only pertains to either a “WordPress.com Article” or a “WordPress.org Article”, only to have a staff member respond back, “that they don’t have the time to re-write a previously written article, to ensure whomever is reading what has been stated, is correct. Thus, I have taken it upon my shoulders, writing in my blogs with more information than what has been posted on WordPress and, I have gotten quite a few individuals responding back, saying that they appreciate the more informative articles that I have written, which further clarifies how to use WordPress.com versus WordPress.org.
(NOTE: I am a Retired U.S. Air Force Veteran, who served for more than 20-years as a former Administrative Manager, writing numerous pieces of correspondence for Air Force Pamplets and Regulations. Thus, as it has been stated in the Air Force, make sure that your “intended customers” are fully aware of what is being stated, versus losing them before they get to the end of what has been written.)
Thus, with that said, it doesn’t make much sense for whomever at WordPress to write (as you referred to with “WPBeginner”), that as more closely affiliated with the self-hosted WordPress software from WordPress.org. My personal thoughts is to make it simpler for anyone that is a newcomer to WordPress, to fully explain at the top of each article in bold lettering “THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARTICLE IS FOR WORDPRESS.COM USERS” or “THE CONTENTS OF THIS ARTICLE IS FOR WORDPRESS.ORG USERS”, so whomever realizes that they are on the wrong page and, can do further research as to what they are looking for, that pertains to either a “.COM” or a “.ORG” Site.
Respectfully,
Mabuhay US Veterans
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Macmanx,
Thanks for the clarification in regards to Question #1, and what you stated and I quote “Yes, that’s what I meant in my answer to question 1. To be clear, we only allow “one account per email address here”, but there is no limit to how many WordPress.com sites you can add under one account”, end of quote, as that feedback / response, was very much appreciated.
Warm Regards,
Mabuhay US Veterans
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I can understand the frustration with sites such as WP Beginner not making it clear they are covering WordPress.org and not WordPress.com.
Unfortunately, we do not have any control over them, so we cannot make any changes on their behalf or force them to make changes.
If you’re just starting out with WordPress.com, I recommend you go through our new user’s guide: https://wordpress.com/learn/
In just a few quick steps, you’ll learn about all the best and most useful features of WordPress.com, with lots of screenshots and videos.
You can also browse our support documentation at https://wordpress.com/support/
And, we have additional courses available at https://wpcourses.com/ and webinars at https://wordpress.com/webinars/
I can assure you that we do control all of those, and they are for WordPress.com only.
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macmanx
Once again, you’re not reading what I had already stated!
I have had a successful WordPress.com Blog / Website for over a year now (https://mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com/).
So, why would you recommend that I go to your new user’s guide: https://wordpress.com/learn/, as that doesn’t make much sense to me?! My WordPress.com Blog / Website was mentioned by yourself in your first response to me. (NOTE: While in the U.S. Air Force for more than 20-years, it has always been stated “that you need to read before you respond” and, maybe you overlooked my WordPress.com Blog / Website.)
However, as long as we are discussing my site and the creation of a new WordPress.com Blog / Website which will be very similar to what the current WordPress.com Blog / Website is, I noticed another issue that doesn’t make much sense to me last night (Philippine Time…Yes, I am happily retired here to the Philippines with my Retired Philippine-American Spouse). When I wanted to see what “Theme” I had used for my current WordPress.com Blog / Website, I couldn’t remember what I had used. Thus, WordPress provides a website site (https://www.wpbeginner.com/tools/wordpress-theme-detector/) that will look up the current theme that I am using. When I entered the information pertaining to my current WordPress.com Blog / Website, I received a message that there is nothing showing!!!
So, I then went to another site on my WordPress.com Blog / Website, that DID indicate the current theme (https://wordpress.com/theme/exford/mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com) and, wondered why the “WordPress Theme Detector” (as indicated with “https://www.wpbeginner.com/tools/wordpress-theme-detector/”, didn’t detect my theme as I had initially thought it would?
To me, something doesn’t make much sense, when the “WordPress Detector Tool” doesn’t find the theme that I am using and, then when I switched to my own WordPress.com Blog / Website, there is a section to find out what the theme is and, it showed there!
Isn’t this kind of strange from your view?
Respectfully,
Mabuhay US Veterans
P.S. My primary thought of finding out which theme I used when creating my original WordPress.com Blog / Website, was to use the same theme (Exford Theme – https://wordpress.com/theme/exford/mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com) that I initially used for the creation of https://mabuhayusveterans.wordpress.com/, as I have been very satisfied with this theme from the very beginning when I constructed my site.
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Hi there,
Those “theme detector” sites are not very reliable and don’t work on every hosting platform.
Since both WordPress.com and the WordPress.org software have a way to determine the active theme via the dashboard, you don’t have to rely on external tools.
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Fstat,
Thanks for clarifying this issue.
FYI, you have helped me before and, I appreciate the feedback once again.
Respectfully,
MabuhayUSVeterans
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