Need help!!

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  sharingmoxie · Member · Feb 8, 2016 at 9:26 pm

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  How can readers follow my blog? I just set up my site today and there isn’t an easy way for them to follow me as in a ‘FOLLOW’ button! Have been getting views off of my facebook site, but even my own sister can’t figure out to how to follow my blog. This is ridiculous.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2016 at 9:32 pm

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  Hi there,
  Before you lose control of your emotions breathe deeply a few times and shelve that negative thinking, please. lol ;)

  Here at wordpress.COM subscribers control their own subscriptions and the frequency re: receipt of post. We cannot subscribe on their behalf or adjust their subscription settings for them. They have to act.

  First, see here for installing the follow blog widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Note that you can also use the Blog Subscription Shortcode https://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/

  For more on following see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/

  Hope this helps. :)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 8, 2016 at 9:34 pm

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  Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set up instructions like this one https://wordpress.com/themes/penscratch/ and a live demo site like this one https://penscratchdemo.wordpress.com/

  For creating a post in the New editor see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page in the new editor see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing in the new editor see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  For uploading images into posts and pages see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/adding-images-to-posts-or-pages/

  Here are more details about the options for uploading images http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/

  For troubleshooting images see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.

  A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.

  A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.

  What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/
  and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/