Invasive Advertising
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Been here before and realise “WP.com free sites” will understandably come at the cost of some unsolicited advertising, however the quantity of such ads continues to escalate and now even their positioning on the page is destroying the original blog/content layout. (When is a WP Themenot a WP Theme. . . when it belongs to an Advertiser).
Very dissappointing.
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Thanks for your reply macmanx.
I have already done that – how long typically should it take before I see any result ?Cheers
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Hi macmanx,
Further to my frustration with these ads, I have a couple of queries please.
(I wouldn’t mind so much if they were just down the bottom or in the side bar – its their invasive positioning which is annoying and they are on ALL pages not just the Blog page). I am pondering the Blogger Plan and if I upgarded to this could you advise:
1) Can I retain my existing domain name – e.g. I’m not interested in changing to .blog ?
2) Will this plan eliminate ALL ads ?
3)Ads not by WordPress.com
point out that It is possible for ads to appear in your browser that were not placed there by WordPress.com. Could you please advise whether a lot of these Ads, on multiple pages on my site, are NOT by WordPress.com and therefore the Blogger Plan will not eliminate them.
Thanks for your help.
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Hi there,
1) Can I retain my existing domain name – e.g. I’m not interested in changing to .blog ?
No. On the blogger plan only .blog domains can be used.
2) Will this plan eliminate ALL ads ?
Yes. All paid plans remove the advertisements.
Could you please advise whether a lot of these Ads, on multiple pages on my site, are NOT by WordPress.com and therefore the Blogger Plan will not eliminate them.
All ads on your site are from the WordPress.com WordAds program and therefore an upgrade to any of our plans will remove them.
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@fstat could you confirm if upgrading to the blogger plan now requires a compulsory new .blog domain rather than having the option of keeping the .wordpress.com extension as you said the opposite here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/upgrade-to-blogger-plan-and-keep-current-wordpress-com-domain/
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It has never been compulsory to register a custom domain in any plan. Fotis likely mistyped there.
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@themagicrobot Getting a few mixed messages from above members and staff contributions Re Blogger Plan. For my own sanity/understanding please confirm:
1) I can retain my same current free plan domain name https://name.wordpress.com/ NOT .blog
2) This plan will remove ALL advertising.
3) My current content/layout will not change apart from the absence of adverts.
4) I also understand this plan will allow for some basic CSS editing, which was not an option under the Free Plan ???
5) Finally, can I revert back to the Free Plan at a later date should I wish to ???Thanks to all for your help.
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@kiwozikonnections, if you get the blogger plan you can’t use a custom domain ending in .com, but I’ll concur that we won’t compel you to register a .blog domain.
It will remove ALL of our ads on the site. Otherwise the layout on your site will not change.
The blogger plan does not allow CSS editing.
And yes you can revert back to free as you like.
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@supernovia Thanks for the prompt reply. OK I’m confused – perhaps my bad wording.
1) I am not looking at a custom domain. To rephrase – can I retain my current https://kiwozikonnections.wordpress.com/ under the Blogger Plan ??
2) Re CSS – Under your Site Customization>Advanced Design Customization it lists “Blogger Plan” asBasic with the info icon quoting “complete control over CSS” – whereas the “Free Plan” shows zero control. I cannot equate this with your comments above. What “Advanced Design Customizations” are they referring to that the Blogger Plan has and the Free Plan does not ???Thanks
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1) Yes that should be fine, you can opt to not buy the domain that comes with the plan.
2) I’ll check in with marketing to what that means or whether it’s a mistake, but the info box you see is referring to the plans that have a checkmark in them.
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@supernovia
1) All understood thanks.
2) Yes please if you could clarify why “Free Plan shows . . . ” and then both “Blogger” and “Personal” show “Basic“, while “Premium, Business and eCommerce” all have the Checkmarks you refer to.The “Blogger Plan” suggests at least some of this statement is true [quote] Customize your selected theme template with extended colour schemes, background designs, and complete control over website CSS [unquote] ???
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I raised the point with staff a while back that https://wordpress.com/pricing/ isn’t clear regarding the “advanced design customization” column for the Blogger Plan and Personal plan. As far as I understand it, “Basic” actually means that there is nothing at all different provided to what you get when using the free plan. (There really ought to be a dash there!)
There is no mention of CSS customization on the Blogger plan or Personal plan here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/plan-features/ -
Officially, Basic is the same as free. Some themes do include their own customization options, but the advanced options are only available on Premium and higher.
Thanks for pointing that out!
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@themagicrobot Thanks for your input. . .much appreciated. I can see you have also struggled with misleading info in the past regarding both Domain Name Formats and Customization options for the Blogger Plan. I think I finally have a clear idea of what to expect now, thanks again.
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Officially, Basic is the same as free. Some themes do include their own customization options, but the advanced options are only available on Premium and higher.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Yep finally figured that out with the assistance of other members here who have already “pointed that out” to staff in the past. Would be nice if such ambiguities were corrected !
Regards
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