Need Information on Setting Up Pinterest Rich Pins on WordPress
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First off, I’m sorry for posting two support threads right after the other. They are separate issues and it seems I’m just having one of those days where I can’t make technology be kind to me.
I’ve been trying to utilize my Pinterest account more effectively in order to increase web traffic and engagement. Everything I’ve researched stresses that utilizing Rich Pins on Pinterest is crucial and they also stress using Rich Pins is completely free.
Well, I’ve looked high and low all over the web for an article on how to enable Rich Pins on your WordPress site, but 98% of them just advise installing the Yoast SEO plugin which is not available on a free WordPress plan. The other 2% gives me some lines of metadata code to use, which I’m pretty sure requires me to be able to access my website’s CSS (also not available for free WordPress plans).
I would just like to know if it’s at all possible to enable Rich Pins on my free WordPress website or if I have been wasting my time trying. I just keep going around in circles trying to figure this out on my own.
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Rich pins are not an option at wordpress.COM as far as I know. Blogger installed plugins can only be done by those with Business plan upgrades.
FTP access http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
Blogger installed plugins http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
Uploading Custom Themes or Third Party Themes
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/Business Plan http://wordpress.com/pricing
The Business upgrade includes:
• Google analytics
• Footer Credit Options https://en.support.wordpress.com/footer-credits/
• SEO Tools https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo-tools/
• The ability to install most plugins https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/ including woocommerce and the ability to install third party themes. https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#uploading-custom-themesYou could be confusing wordpress.COM hosted sites with wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
wordpress.org support
The wordpress.ORG support forum is at http://wordpress.org/support. The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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Thank you for the info. Unfortunately, I can’t afford a business plan at the moment but that is definitely a goal of mine. I’m just glad I know for certain that I can’t enable rich pins and can stop pulling out my hair trying.
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Sorry it wasn’t what you wanted to hear. I referred to https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pinterest-on-free-wp-rich-pins?replies=4
The only code that will work for Pinterest site verification of a wordpress.com blog is described here https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#pinterest-site-verification and you must be logged into Pinterest when you are trying to verify?
The Pinterest “Pin It” hover button will automatically appear on your WordPress.com blog if you have added Pinterest as a sharing button on your Settings > Sharing page and if you are also using the “Official buttons” for the style of the buttons (you can change it on that same settings page).
We can hover over any image in a post and pin it if we are logged into Pinterest. If you have enabled the official buttons for sharing, a “Pin It” hover button will automatically appear for your images. https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/ All we do after clicking the share button is choose one of the images displayed in the post to pin. It’s as easy as pie. ;)
See how to install the Pinterest browser button:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Microsoft Edge
https://help.pinterest.com/en/articles/add-pinterest-browser-button#WebAlso, note that you can embed from Pinterest https://en.support.wordpress.com/embed-from-pinterest/
And here’s the Sharing link https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/ -
Thank you for raising the Pinterest question @affrias. I’ve been trying to work that out too.
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