People are unable to like my posts
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Hi,
People (wordpress.com users) have recently notified me that they’re unable to like my posts. Any chance that I could get some help with that? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
KelseyThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It looks like the conflict is CloudFlare. Other things are broken as well on your blog, such as the admin bar up top and Custom Design.
We are unable to support using CloudFlare for your WordPress.com site for several reasons:
1. Their method of pointing your domain to your WordPress.com site requires using an IP address or specific server, which we don’t support. Your site does not have a static IP address or specific server. Instead, requests to load your site are shifted between several IP addresses and servers in order to balance the demand on servers. This means that specifying an IP address or server won’t work.
2. The features of their cloud-based infrastructure simply duplicate the infrastructure already being provided to you by WordPress.com, such as:
* CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) that deliver your site content from the location closest to your visitor
* Caching/optimizing files for faster loading times
* Security measures protecting your site from denial of service attacks and other forms of hacking/malware
* Site stats, including search engine terms and incoming link referrers, that are easier to read than Google AnalyticsYou can direct your domain back to your WordPress.com blog by changing your name servers to:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COMIf your domain is registered with us, you can change your name servers following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/change-name-servers/
If there are other features you were interested in using via CloudFlare, besides the ones listed above, can you let me know more about what you’re trying to do? I’ll be happy to help you learn more about the equivalent feature on WordPress.com.
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Hello Macmanx,
Thank you so much for your promptness and specificity. At the time that I started my blog, I was told that there was no way to have Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools with wordpress.com, and since I don’t yet have the money to invest in wordpress.org, Cloudflare seemed like a rational sidestep. I use Cloudflare exclusively for the Analytics and Webmaster Tools. If I can use those, I’d be happy to drop Cloudflare, although it has been kind to (and so has wordpress).
Thank you!
Kelsey -
Sure, you’ve always been able to use Webmaster Tools following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ :)
Google Analytics is not yet an option, but we do have our own built-in stats system: https://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/
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Ouf! OK. So, I have to choose between Like buttons or Google Analytics? Analytics allows me to track against Social Media, tells me cities, and is far more precise as to who I am attracting, how many users versus view and who got there how. I had no trouble until this weekend. Is there nothing that I can do to fix this? Your help has really been appreciated, although I confess to being rather upset about this news — I learned about Cloudflare from the forums as the only way to rig it.
Thanks, again,
Kelsey -
Unfortunately, with the cloud-based infrastructure of WordPress.com, we cannot guarantee that it will always work.
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