Is Post excerpting turned-off for the 'free for life' version of WordPress?
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I am using the ‘free for life’ version of WordPress at wordpress.com. I have noted several features are not included that I have available at a paid WordPress site that I administer. Is there documentation for the ‘free for life’ version that shows a feature comparison between the ‘free for life’ version versus the paid version?
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Please read this comparison very carefully http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Also read http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-orgWordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/
See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.
Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/Note that each upgrade applies to a single blog only and is for a single year only when it is due to be renewed.
Read Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/#important-notes-before-upgrading
Also note that premium theme purchases apply to a single blog only and are for the lifetime of the blog while hosted by WordPress.COM, and the Premium upgrade does not include any premium themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/
Neither the free plan nor the Premium plan allow you to upload your own themes or plugins. More to the point is that WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
See here for eCommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Store > My Upgrades
Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
Your options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options that require no upgrading.
(1) Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/Otherwise, no blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.com blogs. The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
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Hi there,
The excerpt feature is available to paid and free versions of WordPress.com. Payment doesn’t determine the availability of that feature. The excerpt feature only works with certain themes. However, the excerpt feature is available for your theme, Twenty Fourteen. The Excerpt module can be found to the left of the post editor, with the other publishing options in your sidebar.
For more information on excerpts, please visit our support page:
To check out the difference among our free, premium, and business plans, please visit our store page:
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
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Oh boy! I’m so glad you caught this. I was off the mark entirely. Thanks. -
@fitnessandgrace
Also note that this is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that automatically provide the excerpt instead of full post content on the front page. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410 -
No worries!
I didn’t really catch anything as much as it took me way too long to answer the question (kids). ;)
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Hopefully, we have covered it all and if we haven’t then fitnessandgrace can post here again. :)
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I do not find the Excerpt module in the Post Editor Publish Options box, or do I misunderstand where to look? However, the more tag comment included with the list of themes that automatically support excerpts provides an alternative. Note I am using a Static Home Page and separate Posts page.
I also see that my Posts do not include social media sharing or commenting, even though these boxes are checked in the Discussion and Shares and Likes windows below the Post Editor.
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Excuse me. I am still using the old WP Admin interface. I have the Excerpt option checked in the Post Editor Page Options, and I have entered manual excerpt in the Excerpt Window, but the Posts page displays the full Post.
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I also see that my Posts do not include social media sharing or commenting, even though these boxes are checked in the Discussion and Shares and Likes windows below the Post Editor.
I see your buttons and comment box at the bottom of this post:
I also checked your settings and everything is set up for them to display. You do not see them?
if not, a few things I would try:
First, please make sure that your browser is up to date by visiting http://whatbrowser.org/
If it is not, please try updating your browser or trying a different browser if the updated browser still doesn’t work.
Also, with your current browser, you can:
- Try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies: http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
- Make sure that you have third-party cookies enabled: http://en.support.wordpress.com/third-party-cookies/
- Try with all browser extensions or add-ons temporarily disabled.
- Try enabling HTTPS: http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/
Please let us know how each step goes for you, and which browser (and version of) you’re using if you’re still having trouble.
Thanks!
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I am very pleased with all this support!!! I have not yet had a chance to try all the suggestions
It is interesting that you can see the social media sharing buttons and comment window at the bottom of the Post. I have new WIndows10 laptop, but I am using Internet Explorer. I am using this option, as Microsoft Edge says something about my RSS feeds from my paid WordPress site being an unsupported protocol, http://wildrockiesraceteam.com/
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If you have another browser on your computer, I would check and see if you see the buttons and comment box on your site. I’d be curious to see if you can.
Keep me updated and of course let us know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!
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Both IE11 and Edge12 are the most current versions. Also, I see the same issues in Edge12: Posts not excerpting, even after assuring manual excerpt is present in the New Post Editor; no Comment Window nor social media sharing buttons at the bottom of the Post (although there is a Post RSS Follow link adjacent to the Post that I do not see in IE11)
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Great! Let me know what you find. Otherwise, I’ll see if I can reproduce the issue on my end. Also, if you haven’t gone through the suggested list that Timethief and I provided, be sure to. Many of the issues stem from the suggestions we listed.
Let me know. Thanks!
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I did all the things you suggested for IE11, and the same results: No Post excerpting; No social media sharing buttons nor Comment window in Posts (although they are and have been present in Pages).
I do now see the Post RSS Follow link adjacent to Posts in IE11 (perhaps I had not noticed it before?)
Also, IE11 on my wife’s Windows7 PC shows the same results.
Note we utilize ESET Smart Security.
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Great news! Even though excerpting is still not working, I am able to achieve the result I want with the more tag. Upon clicking on the Continue Reading link, the whole post comes up in a page (presumably the “Single Post” template) that now includes the Comment window and social media sharing buttons at the bottom. Apparently, the malfunctioning of excerpting has the side effect of utilizing some other page template. This should give the WordPress Gurus something to cogitate.
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Thanks for the update and glad that the more tag is working for you. I’ll keep you updated on our end if we find any link between the excerpt feature and IE11. Keep us updated as well.
Thanks!
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