Investment Club – Premium Membership

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm

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  We are a new investment club that is in the process of working with a company named Ditto Trade. Our relationship with Ditto will consist of driving website content to subscribers who we then plan to charge a monthly fee. Before we commit to the wordpress.com platform and pay the $99 fee we wanted to throw a few questions by you to make sure we’d have the needed functionality.

  These are a few pieces we’d like to use in our website
  Performance database (live view of our investment fund)
  E-learning courses
  Instant chat
  Videos specifically Youtube channel embedding
  Username and password sign in for entire site
  Username and password sign in for Individual pieces of the site?
  Paypal account hook up to charge users for certain pieces of the site.

  If you could give us some information on these questions that would be most helpful. We’d like to make the transition to premium content ASAP.

  Thanks,

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

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:35 pm

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  Our relationship with Ditto will consist of driving website content to subscribers who we then plan to charge a monthly fee.

  Not allowed! Read this http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:38 pm

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  See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/

  Note that none of the plans allow you to run advertising or to upload your own themes or plugins. WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions. If you need a site that requires a custom theme or plugins — e.g., if you want to be able to sell things directly from your site, or your want a members only site, or if you want to install discussion forums — a self-hosted WordPress site might be right for you.

  WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Briefly stated what you want cannot be done here. You need to create an XML export file of your content. It will not include the theme as they cannot be exported. See 3 below.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  1. Hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/

  2. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  3. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  4. Purchase a site redirect upgrade from wordpress.com
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ or if you have domain mapping then update the nameservers http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

  5. Transfer subscribers and stats. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:39 pm

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  Hello,

  Can you please elaborate on where the separate business revenue being charged by the users is not allowed via your link?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:43 pm

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  I’d be happy to have Staff wade in and respond to this so I tagged this thread for their attention. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:47 pm

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  There is no FTP access and no plugin capability on free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce transactions with shopping carts and no blogger initiated advertising or paid or sponsored content is allowed.

  The only things you can sell on WP.com blogs are products that you, yourself create and/or services that you personally provide. For an online store with a shopping cart you need an independently hosted blog using WordPress.ORG software.
  http://wordpress.org

  Here’s what gets a free hosted WordPress.com blog suspended:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:50 pm

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  We do not provide the functionality for live chat or ecommerce, and while we allow you to have password-protected pages, we do not provide the level of functionality for paywalls that you are describing. Based on your needs, I think you will find a self-hosted WordPress site to be a better match for your needs.

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:55 pm

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  Thank you for elaborating.

  Does this policy stand for premium blogs as well? I see several premium blogs advertising merchandise for sale directly on their site. We intend to generate revenue from our publications through subscribers as well as host links to the third party business that pays us as a partner in their offerings as well.

  Thank you.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 6:58 pm

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  Does this policy stand for premium blogs as well? I see several premium blogs advertising merchandise for sale directly on their site.

  They are VIP hosted blogs. They are not blogs with premium upgrades and they are not blogs with business upgrades.

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:05 pm

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  I noticed on the wordpress.com page that talks about upgrading to premium status.

  http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/pro-bundle/?ref=newdash-footer

  Theres a blog named Salt Gypsy located on the right hand side that is an example of what premium access can grant you.

  http://www.shopsaltgypsy.com/

  On Salt Gypsy, a premium wordpress.com blog, they are selling clothing items. I’m guessing this is a VIP hosted blog?

  that seems to be false advertising since we are not allowed the same functionality unless we pay additional fees for a vip blog not mentioned in the premium upgrade page.

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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  I’m not sure where you are seeing a link to shopsaltgypsy.com, but that site is not hosted on WordPress.com and is not a VIP site.

  Please see http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ for a description of the differences between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites.

  Also please note that we do not allow third-party advertising on WordPress.com.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:24 pm

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  To make it simple, you need to buy paid hosting, install software from WordPress.ORG, and set up your site over there. WordPress.COM will not work for what you want.

  The VIP program here costs $30,000 a year. You can get the same level of functionality (but not support) for less than $500 a year if you just get hosting and use WordPress.org.

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:29 pm

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  The link to shopsaltygypsy is here:

  http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/pro-bundle/?ref=newdash-footer

  it is displayed on that page as a premium blog. Please confirm if this site is in fact a premium blog, as displayed on the above link. If so, this site offers merchandise for sale.

  While helpful, we are not receiving a clear answer. We do understand that a free wordpress.com blog is unable to host affiliate links for ecommerce. We are planning on paying the $99 annual fee for a premium blog. Can you please confirm if this will allow affiliate links or merchandise sales?

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  No, it will not. The functionality you want is not available here at any price point below the VIP program.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 7:34 pm

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  @raincoaster
  Yes, indeed and I thought I made that clear above.

  @41northinvestments

  Can you please confirm if this will allow affiliate links or merchandise sales?

  Absolutely not! I already posted this above. Please stop questioning and start reading what’s at the links I post, okay?
  Here’s what gets a free hosted WordPress.com blog suspended:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 8:11 pm

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  All,

  We posted the original question to seek help, not to invite argumentative language. Simply posting links is clearly not providing an abundant amount of help. We are more than capable of reading the links, what we’re looking for is clarification regarding further questions we had.

  In regards to a premium blog and ecommerce, we clearly found an example of a wordpress advertised blog as a ‘premium’ with ecommerce capability. This strongly contradicts the necessity for a VIP blog in order to conduct ecommerce via our website.

  At any rate, what is clear is the need to host our website on wordpress.org in order to obtain the ability to have affiliate links on our website.

  Feel free to amend any further links or possibly a site map.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 8:12 pm

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  The clear example is NOT hosted by WordPress.COM at all. It’s WordPress.ORG install and Staff (jackiedana) already told you that above.

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 8:19 pm

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  The below link is through wordpress.com and states:

  “Awesome Blogs with WordPress.com Premium”

  http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/pro-bundle/

  with a link to this wordpress.com premium blog with ecommerce capability as I understand it

  http://www.shopsaltgypsy.com/products/bespoke-surf-leggings

  How is that not a wordpress.com hosted blog?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 8:26 pm

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  Snap of shopsaltgypsy.com
  shopsaltgypsy.com Is Hosted by Server Central Network

  Hosting: Server Central Network host the domain shopsaltgypsy.com
  WHOIS: Click Here
  IP Address: 204.93.213.40
  Name Servers: ns1.systemdns.com, ns2.systemdns.com, ns3.systemdns.com

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  41northinvestments · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 8:32 pm

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  Look – I do not doubt you’re right, I’m pointing out the error on the webpage. Can you not admit the misleading nature of this? It has clearly been a root cause of our questions regarding affiliate links and ecommerce. I would recommend looking into a fix for this.