Opening A Store?

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  mondrosen · Member · Oct 3, 2007 at 2:11 pm

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  Hello.

  I was wondering, can I use my wordpress page to open a store. I want to put the items in my blog page. Is this allowed?

  Thank you.

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  chrislevinsonphotography · Member · Oct 3, 2007 at 2:22 pm

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  There’s no direct way to open or use a store in a WP.com blog; you’d need to open a store on another site like Yahoo and then place a link to it in a widget. It might be allowed but you’d need to contact staff to check first; the FAQs say you can have a discreet link to your business in the sidebar so it might be okay, but you’d have to check to be sure.
  http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2007 at 5:01 pm

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  /nod to cjwriter

  @mondrosen
  references:
  No advertising allowed on wordpress.com blogs http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
  Also wordpress.com blogs cannot be used to drive traffic to 3rd party sites – see section 2, 5th bullet http://wordpress.com/tos/

  If you want a commercial blog then IMO your best course of action is to hire a web host and download the free software from http://wordpress.org
  The differences between the two are summarized in these threads:
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/wordpresscom-vs-wordpressorg/
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700

  HTH :)