I have the premium, but it's still making me pay to redirect.

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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 31, 2014 at 3:51 am

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  It’s only $13. But still

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Jan 31, 2014 at 5:23 pm

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  Hi Marshall,

  Are you no longer using your WordPress.com site? If you just want to redirect your WordPress.com site to another site then you wouldn’t need the WordPress.com Premium upgrade – just the Site Redirect upgrade.

  If you want to map the domain: yourhometeamsucks.com to your WordPress.com site, then you need to update the nameservers to:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  For more information, please visit the help documentation provided by the registrar and our support page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  Let me know if you have any questions!

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 3, 2014 at 10:12 pm

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  I want my WP and the content to link to the .com

  So is that the redirect upgrade?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 pm

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  If you want to map your domain: yourhometeamsucks.com to your WordPress.com site, please update your nameservers to ours. It wouldn’t be the site redirect upgrade (just domain mapping).

  It looks like your domain is not pointing to WordPress.com name servers yet:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-helper/?host=yourhometeamsucks.com

  Please go to your domain registrar (GoDaddy)’s site and log into the control panel. You will need to update the name servers as below:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

  For more information, please visit the help documentation provided by the registrar and our support page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

  Let me know if you have any questions!

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm

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  Cool thanks.

  Also do you know if there’s a preset on WP that allows a post to have that large font for just the opening letter? That may sound confusing, it’s like a header but only for the first letter.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can do this by editing your posts via the Text Editor. Go into edit your post and switch to the text editor. Once you are there, find the first letter of the post and paste this in:

  <span style="font-size:40px;">H</span>

  Currently I placed the H as the larger letter. Remove that and put in whichever letter it is. Then remove that letter outside of the span tags. I have done this in the post:

  MLB’s Hall of Blame

  If you don’t like it, let me know and I can remove it.

  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 10:24 pm

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  Thanks again. This will probably be my last question for awhile, but is there a way to put your twitter link in your gravatar?

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 10:39 pm

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  Just kidding. I have one more. How do I get people to comment on posts via their Facebook login?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 12:00 pm

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  HI Marshall,

  is there a way to put your twitter link in your gravatar?

  Go to http://en.gravatar.com/marshallcweber, sign in and then click on My Profile at the top. On the left hand side go to Verified Services and select Twitter and click Add. You will be prompted to your Twitter log in.

  How do I get people to comment on posts via their Facebook login?

  Unfortunately that is not possible at this time at WordPress.com. However, readers can share your posts on Facebook if they want.

  You can reach out any time :)

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 5:13 pm

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  Is there a way to make the photo on the “Top Story” larger?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 7:54 pm

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  Top Story? I’m not currently seeing a section labelled Top Story. Are you talking about the image here? :

  

  In order to do that you would need to edit CSS, and I believe the theme authors would be able to give you better advice on doing this than I could. Since you purchased the Premium Theme: Opti, you are able to receive direct support from them regarding this here:

  http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/opti

  If that’s not what you mean, please clarify and I’d be happy to see what I can do!

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  marshallcweber · Member · Feb 6, 2014 at 9:38 pm

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  K. Awesome Ill look into it.

  Can’t thank you enough for all the help. The last very, very big thing is that how long does it usually take for the DNS stuff to update. GoDaddy changed it about three hours ago but it’s still not updating.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 10:35 am

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  Hi Marshall,

  I just checked your site and it looks like your domain mapping is working? Please view the screenshot below:

  

  If you find that it is not, can you please try clearing out your cache and cookies using the guide below?

  Solve Common Browser Issues

  Sometimes it can take up to 48 hours to fully propagate.

  Feel free to reach out anytime :)