Plugins
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hi guys,
There is no “Plugins” option in my dashboard. Does that mean i don’t have Admin privileges? I should because i’m the only owner of the blog.
I want to install feedburner, or some plug in that allows people to sign up to have each of my posts automatically emailed to them whenever I post.
thx
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Howdy,
It is not possible to install plugins on WordPress.com, for security reasons. Plugins can only be installed on self-hosted WordPress blogs. If you are wondering how WordPress.com differs from WordPress.org, this support article explains the distinction:
WordPress.com has a lot of built-in features that were inspired by popular plugins. Chances are, the feature you are looking for is already there. If you don’t find what you are looking for, just let us know what you’d like to achieve with a plugin, and we’ll help you find a solution.
In your case, a subscription service is built-in, similar to Feedburner. Any user who’s not logged in as a WordPress.com user will see this Follow button on your site:
When clicked, they can sign up for email notifications for your new posts:
If they are signed into WordPress.com, they’ll see a similar Follow button in the bar at the top. Then your posts will show up in their Reader, and if they’ve selected email notifications they’ll get those as well (their choice.)
Best,
-Alex G.
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Thanks a bunch, Alex. I didn’t know of that built in feature, and it should suffice.
My last question is how do I format my blog so that the posts are centered with the header? See how the posts are further to the right in your screenshot? When I view it on my phone or my big computer screen it is centered correctly. But when viewed on either of my two macbooks it looks like your screenshot.
thx!
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Hi there!
I play with zoom a lot in my browsers, and change window sizes frequently as well, because I have some vision problems and multi-task a lot. :)
If you’ll zoom in and out on your site at different levels, or change your window size with your site open, you’ll see the site changes and that at some moments the alignment gets thrown off. This is a quirk that can happen with responsive sites (that change their display based on screensize/windowsize/zoom), and Mac’s retina displays can be weird with responsive too, because can think it’s really bigger than it is.
In that particular screenshot, I had the window at an odd size so the site was trying to compensate, but it got off.
User settings like that aren’t really something that can be accounted for precisely in code. Most visitors shouldn’t have issues seeing your site centered when they have the window open fully.
Best,
-Alex G.
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Haha, thanks. I try. :)
Let me know if you have any other questions, and I’m happy to take a look.
Best,
-Alex G.
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Alex, one last question. I want to put some text in the upper left corner of the homepage. Either something that says: Click the “follow” link in the corner to have each article emailed to you
or
A button or link that said: click here to have each article emailed to you.
The latter would be even better if possible. Just need it to fit in with my minimal design. Any ideas on how to do that?
thx!
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The latter wouldn’t be possible, because the “Follow” mechanism changes depending on whether the user is logged into WordPress.com or not. An HTML link can’t establish that, so you’ll need to use the method of enticing someone to click the already established “Follow” button.
An elegant solution would be the following:
Setup a text widget similar to this in Top Widget Area One:
Setup a “search” widget in widget area two (because we’re about to hide the default search function.) Skip this step if you don’t want people to use search on your site.
Add this Custom CSS:
.toppanel{ display: none; } .hide { display: block; } #search-wrapper { display: none; } .search-trigger{ display: none; }This will open up the widget areas by default (instead of being hidden by default) — but the default search wrapper makes it look weird.
End result looks like this on a test site:
Folks can then still hide the widget area if they wish, but you get your enticing copy for them to follow in some prime real estate.
Best,
-Alex G.
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Hi Alex, i’ve run into a couple more things I can’t figure out (I do spend quite a bit of time searching for answers online and experimenting before resorting to taking your time, I promise:)
1. I want to have an About page tab on my main page that people can click on to go to a page with info about me. I created a page (titled “About Christian), but can’t figure out how to have it linked to the main page.
2. How do I hyperlink the twitter feed I added in my text box up top?
thx!
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Hi Christian,
Not a problem at all. :)
For #1, your theme Ryu doesn’t add a navigation menu by default (to keep everything looking minimal.) You can add a custom menu using these instructions:
For #2, change “twitter.com/CollegeCIO” in your text widget to this:
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/CollegeCIO">twitter.com/CollegeCIO</a>Best,
-Alex G.
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