Photon

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  highexpectasteion · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 3:14 pm

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  Hi there is no option to disable photon. Is wordpress.com and .org different? I think it can only be toggled on .org?

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

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  jenlynnemc · Staff · Feb 10, 2017 at 6:26 pm

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  Hi There,
  Yes you are right, WordPress.com and WordPress.org sites are different. WordPress.com has a set of plugins, etc pre-installed for you. WordPress.com handles all updates as well automatically. WordPress.org sites are self hosted, so you choose what it installed, you must take care of your own updates, etc.

  For WordPress.com users Photon is installed already for you, but you would not have the ability to turn it off.
  Hope this helps explain.
  Thanks

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 6:29 pm

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  Hi there, what is it that Photon isn’t letting you do on your WordPressdotcom site?

  Sometimes linking from a secure HTTPS URL can solve the issue.

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  highexpectasteion · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 6:48 pm

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  I’m trying to put a crawler code on my blog so that it can be found by another host.

  They recommended that I disable photon, but I was able to submit one blog post that was found by the parent host site with it on. But I was only able to get that one to work. The others haven’t worked since.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 6:53 pm

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  That’s not possible on any blog hosted by wordpress.com. You cannot disable it.

  We have code restrictions at wordpress.COM. No tracking codes, no advertising codes, javascript or unsupported iframe codes can be used on any wordpress.COM hosted sites. The software will strip those codes out.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  Please see Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress https://move.wordpress.com/

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 7:17 pm

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  Photon CDN affects image caching. It doesn’t change anything concerning embed codes, which as @tt has pointed out is restricted here on WordPressdotcom. https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 7:20 pm

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  @justjennifer
  Hi there. After 2 weeks of blizzards and power outages, and a strong aversion to spending lots of $ to run a generator so I could have internet service I’m back. :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 7:23 pm

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  Welcome back to “civilization”! :)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 7:26 pm

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  Thanks. Snow is beautiful and fun to play in but power outages and cooking outdoors on BBQs and/or indoors on wood stoves in below zero weather sucks big time.

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  highexpectasteion · Member · Feb 10, 2017 at 7:32 pm

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  Right… How did the first blog post get linked but the second didn’t?

  Further more I have seen other people with the same .Com blog being able to link to the parent site just fine.

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 10, 2017 at 10:19 pm

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  @highexpectasteion photon is enabled always here; I’m guessing if you’re having a host crawl the site it’s hitting some kind of security issue.

  I’m trying to put a crawler code on my blog so that it can be found by another host.

  Can you clarify this? Let us know what you’re trying to do and we may be able to offer a better solution.

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 10, 2017 at 10:20 pm

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  Glad you’re alright, all things considered, @timethief :)