online business
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Hi there! My name is Lisa, i just created an account with WordPress yesterday thinking i could make it a website for my online business. but it seems the one i created is just for a basic blog. i read multiple instructions already. but i’m stuck on the 3rd procedure to go to settings and choose reading. i don’t see reading as one of the option. what should i do? please help me. thanks!
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Your detailed theme description page with set up instructions is at
https://wordpress.com/themes/snaps/
The support doc for the theme is at https://snapsdemo.wordpress.com/A blog is a website.
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, here’s a link to my step by step post too http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
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i’m stuck on the 3rd procedure to go to settings and choose reading
http://shopenligne.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php
You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page and posts on a different page.By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:The guide for creating a static front page is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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a website for my online business
See here please https://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/ for the plugins (Ecwid, Shopify or Gumroad) that are available only under the $299. US per year Business upgrade. http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.
(1) PayPal – 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/
Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page 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/(2) eCommerce site link- If you have 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
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