Opt-in to email list / Videopress upgrade necessary in wordpress.org?

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  tpmeli · Member · Mar 12, 2013 at 1:42 pm

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  I am considering shifting over to wordpress.org because I want a powerful opt-in page (to an email list, not to my blog) and I also want video-blogging for free.

  I was unclear as to whether I would need to ‘upgrade’ to video-press in order to do video as a wordpress.org. I do not believe this would be the case, however, I wanted to confirm that.

  I also wanted to confirm that there were no opt-in widgets that were connected with social media. This would probably create a huge impact on wordpress.com’s success if it had this capacity.

  Any suggestions?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 12, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  We don’t really have anything opt-in except for our subscription widget, though I suppose you could consider the Facebook Like Box and Twitter Follow widgets as opt-in too.

  VideoPress is necessary to upload videos to a WordPress.com blog, but not for a WordPress.org blog. However, you can still use VideoPress on a WordPress.org blog, as you’ll still get the player and unlimited bandwidth for the videos.