Pulling blog post into godaddy hosted website
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The ‘blog’ page on my website, which is hosted by godaddy, pulls in posts from my wordpress blog. See https://cardiganalexandertechnique.com/blog Unfortunately the featured images from the posts aren’t showing there. I previously used tumblr and the images did come through to the godaddy site then. Because of this and because godaddy tech support say there’s nothing they can do their end, I’m hoping there’s something I can change in my wordpress settings. Thanks in advance, Ian
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The media file links are in the feed https://cardiganalexandertechnique.wordpress.com/feed/ and if they do not display we cannot help you.
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I think I answered in reverse so let me try this again. This is wordpress.COM support. It is not wordpress.ORG support.
We provide support only for sites on our servers as they are the only sites we host. We host https://cardiganalexandertechnique.wordpress.com/ and the feed URL for published posts on it is https://cardiganalexandertechnique.wordpress.com/feed/
You can use the RSS widget on your wordpress.COM hosted site to display post text from any RSS feed. https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
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Hi, thanks for this. The coding found at the above link doesn’t mean very much to me. Please could you have a look and see if it looks like there is anything I can do differently with the images?
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I do not believe that you can do anything at all with code. The way the RSS widget for wordpress.COM sites is designed is to display text. https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
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P.S. Have you read Google’s position on creating duplicate content across domains “Syndicate carefully”?
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Thanks again for clarifying, I can live without the images being displayed. Re duplicate content, I have just tried to do what godaddy recommended when creating my website. They have a facility for pulling in blog posts from blog hosting sites like wordpress and tumblr because they don’t have a platform for hosting blogs themselves. What specifically am I doing wrong?: introducing the blog/ aim of blog etc, on both sites?
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Let’s ask Staff to assist you with sorting this out. I will type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Hi there,
All that is controlled from this side is your blog’s feed, and that contains links to all your images, as @timethief also confirmed.
How the feed is displayed on your GoDaddy site is in GoDaddy’s control, not ours, so if the images aren’t showing on that side there’s nothing we can do about it. We don’t have access to your site’s files over there to check if something is not working correctly.
The only suggestion I can make is to make sure all images are added inside your post content, not just as a featured image. Featured images are a WordPress.com feature and might not display on other services.
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Thanks very much Kokkieh, I’ll have a go at pitting in ages inside post. That could be just the thing.
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It’s sorted Kokkieh, your simple suggestion was all i needed :)
I’m just a bit concerned at Timetheif’s advice to look at google’s ‘syndicate carefully’ policy. I have only duplicated content on blog and main website so that the viewer can see who I am/ purpose of blog etc from main site and blog site if they happen to land there first. I’m not trying to gain any kind of seo benefit by doing this. I’m just trying to follow the procedure as suggested on godaddy webbuilder site for integrating blog feed.
Anyway thanks very much to both of you,
Ian
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Hi Kokkieh, While putting an image into the main body of the blog text solved my problem of images not displaying on the widgets on my website, images were then displaying twice on my blogs. So I decided to remove the featured image on each post so that there would hopefully only be one image showing. But there are still two images now on each post. please could you help me with this?
Thanks, Ian
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I’m just a bit concerned at Timetheif’s advice to look at google’s ‘syndicate carefully’ policy. I have only duplicated content on blog and main website so that the viewer can see who I am/ purpose of blog etc from main site and blog site if they happen to land there first.
While that might be your intention, search engines have no way of knowing that. All search engines see is that the same content exists on two different websites, and they could penalise you for that in terms of how they show your site in search results.
A better way to link your blog and your website would be to map your blog to a subdomain on your website. So your website will be on https://cardiganalexandertechnique.com/, and your WordPress.com blog will be at https://blog.cardiganalexandertechnique.com/. You’ll add the second link in your site’s menu, and if someone clicks on that they’ll get taken to your blog, instead of seeing your blog embedded on your website.
Doing it this way will require that you purchase a plan for your WordPress.com site so you can add the domain mapping upgrade, though.
So I decided to remove the featured image on each post so that there would hopefully only be one image showing. But there are still two images now on each post.
I checked your most recent post and it still has a featured image set.
https://cloudup.com/cnprAg68UhQ
But in this case removing the featured image is not the best thing to do, as that will prevent your blog’s front page from showing any images.
Instead, you can control this from the Customizer. Click on My Sites, then click the Customize button next to Themes, followed by Content Options. Under the Featured Images heading, untick the box saying “Display on single posts”.
This way you can still assign featured images that will show on the front page, but on single posts they won’t be visible.
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Brilliant re the single image pointer. I’ve sorted that now. The reason I went back to featured image is that when I got rid of featured images, a duplicate image of the ‘add media’ image was showing but, on the upside, the first of these images included the excerpt. Now there is no excerpt but I can live with that. I wouldn’t mind including it if it’s simple though.
Re a paid plan, how much are we talking and how easy would creating a subdomain be? Would there still be a page called ‘blog’ on my website?
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Now there is no excerpt but I can live with that. I wouldn’t mind including it if it’s simple though.
Are you speaking of your WordPress.com site, or the way it displays on your website? The theme for your WordPress.com site doesn’t display excerpts, only the thumbnail image and a title. As I said before, we don’t control how the embedded posts on your website display, though.
Re a paid plan, how much are we talking and how easy would creating a subdomain be? Would there still be a page called ‘blog’ on my website?
You can view all our plans at My Site ->Plans. You’d need at least the Personal Plan at $35.88 (£30.00) a year. Instructions for creating a subdomain and adding the domain mapping upgrade are at the link I gave above.
You’ll still have a Blog link on your website’s menu, but instead of going to a page where your blog posts are embedded, it will go directly to your actual blog instead. You’ll need to edit your menu on the website to link to the subdomain instead of to the current page.
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