Security Warning
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My blog site considerthisbyjd.com. When the site is accessed securely (https) the browser gives a certificate warning indicating that the server is identifying itself as wordpress.com. When reviewing the certificate, one will notice that it is in fact issued to wordpress.com. I would like to have a new certificate issued to considerthisbyjd.com to avoid any confusion. How I can accomplish this.
Thank you,
Jack D’Aurora
(email visible only to moderators and staff)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Which browser and version of it are you referring to please?
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Hi Jack,
Currently, there is no way to issue SSL certificates for all mapped domains. The certificate is assigned to your default WordPress address, but the URL is showing up as considerthisbyjd.com, which causes your browser to think something is weird. However, unless you manually type the “https://” all dashboard links to your blog should point to http://considerthisbyjd.com and display correctly. Are you manually typing this in? Your readers should all see the http:// version.
Best,
Jeremey
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Hi, Jeremy
Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I’m typing in http versus https. My concern was based on the possibility of someone mistakenly typing https, which would lead to the problem I wrote about. Since there is no way to address the problem, I guess I’ll take heart in the fact that the odds of the problem occuring for the average reader are rather low.
Thanks again,
Jack
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Not a problem Jack. Yes, the vast majority of your readers should just be seeing the regular URL.
Let me know if you have any additional questions!
Best,
Jeremey
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I have a problem with my blog. When people submit comments, the comments do not post. I get a copy of their comment in my junk mail, but when I log in to my blog, I do not see the comments.
In trying to investigate the problem, I have posted comments (as if I were a reader). When I log in, the comments I submitted are not posted.
Can you lend a hand, please.
Thanks, Jack D’Aurora
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Hey Jack,
Currently, you have several comments sitting in your spam folder and others in your trash. You can find these comments by navigating to Dashboard -> Comments and using the navigation links at the top. Are these the one’s you’re looking for?
Your discussion settings are currently set-up so that a commenter must have a previously approved comment in order for their current comment to be approved automatically. Otherwise, the comment will go into your “pending” folder where you must either approve the comment or send it to the trash. Additional details on managing comments can be found here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-comments/
Please let me know if the comments in the trash and spam folders are the one’s you’re looking for!
Best,
Jeremey
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Thanks for your quick reply, Jeremey.
This communication may be duplicative of what I sent a couple days back via an e-mail reply to your e-mail. In any case, let me first respond to your questions. I checked the comments in Spam; those are indeed spam. I checked the comments in Trash; those are things I put there. The comment I’m looking for is not to be found.
I changed my settings. Now, every comment must be maunually approved.
I tried again to post the comment from a friend who was unable to post the comment himself. The comment does not appear on my blog, but does show up in my e-mail as spam. Here’s what I received in my e-mail spam:
Name: Daniel McCormick
Email: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
Comment: Great observation and a strong endorsement for the debate in the Medicaid expansion in Ohio. My experience in both Medicaid and Medicare dates back 25 years. Medicaid is a program that neither the providers nor the public wish to participate in and many providers either refuse or highly limit the number of people they will “admit” as new patients. The reasons cited by Mr. D’Aurora are primary considerations. The entire “crisis” can be fixed with a quick two step plan that can save money and redeem the system. First is to open Medicaid to anyone without insurance and make it pro-rated to their ability to pay. Second, (or I should say simultaneously) all federal, state , and local government workers (including all elected officials) should have their gold-plated programs immediately shifted to the same Medicaid system. Within six months Medicaid would be fixed, we’d save a boat load of money, and have a system that reaches into every nook and cranny of America to take care the uninsured. Even I would be willing to sign up.Time: December 13, 2013 at 9:22 am
IP Address: 173.226.248.116
Contact Form URL: http://considerthisbyjd.com/2013/10/18/get-fair-pricing-back-in-health-care/
Sent by an unverified visitor to your site.I’m stumped. Any ideas? Note: until just recently, everything was working just fine. The blog gods appear to be working against me on this one.
Appreciate your help,
Jack
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Hey Jack,
You’re receiving that message because the form at the bottom of that post is a contact form (not a comment box). For example, at the bottom of the post you mentioned, there is a code for a comment box as seen here:
The comment box is actually farther down under “Leave a Reply”. So, if any of your readers submit a contact request, it will go to your email, but the comment will not get posted. They will need to submit the comment under “Leave a Reply”.
Does that make sense?
Best,
Jeremey
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Yo, Jeremey,
A couple thoughts. First, Do’h!!! I’m feeling a little stupid. Second, considering my poor understanding of what the Contact box is for, I’m lucky my blog has any posted commenets.
I have now deleleted the Contact box from all my posts. I entered my friend’s reply the correct way and–Praise Got–it posted just fine.
One final issue: after deleting the Contact box, I see there is no Reply box below my article, Get Fair Pricing Back in Health Care. To post my friend’s comment, I had to go to the top of my post and click “comment.” I would prefer that a Reply box appear below a post, because I’m concerned that not all readers will think about going back to the top of a post to look for that comment button. Or, am I missing something?
Please know I appreciate your help. Really!
Best,
Jack
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Hey Jack,
The reply box is still beneath your article. It is just below the comment you recently posted as shown here:
The “Leave a Reply” section sits at the very bottom of the page (below all current comments). Is that what you were looking for? Currently, there’s not a way to move it above the other comments. The idea is that the reader would read through the current comments and then possibly use those comments as reference in their comment.
Best,
Jeremey
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The “Leave a Reply” box appeared only after I posted the comment. In order to post it, I had to go to the top of my health care aritlce and click “Leave a Comment,” because the “Leave a Reply” box was not there.
If you look at other posts of mine where readers have NOT commented, you will not see a “Leave a Reply” box. So, it seems to me that the first person to comment has to go up to the top of my posts and click “Leave a Comment.” The second person to comment will then have a “Leave a Reply” box. My concern is that it isn’t intuitively obvious for the first commentator to go back to the top to post his comment.
Am I missing something? If I’m being a little slow, forgive me.
Thanks, Jeremey.
Jack
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Hey Jack,
The “Leave a Reply” section should pop up even if there are no comments currently on the post provided you have comments enabled. Comments can be enabled/disabled on a post-by-post basis so you could remove the comment section if you would like on a certain post. Instructions on doing that can be found here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
I checked out several of your other posts and the “Leave a Reply” section appears to be there even though there isn’t a comment yet:
http://d.pr/i/ojJv
http://d.pr/i/NrwXIs there one in particular that you’ve found where the comment box doesn’t appear until someone leaves a comment? If so, let me know the particular post, and I’ll investigate further.
Best,
Jeremey
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Got it. Thanks.
One final question (I hope anyway) about saving changes to my posts. I select a post and then select “screen options” at the top. I check both Discussion and Comments. I then hit “Update” in order to save the change, but the check on the Discussion box disappears. So, obviously there’s another way to save this kind of change, but I can’t find it. So, where’s the magic button that I can’t find?
Thanks,
Jack
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Hey Jack,
I was able to replicate this on my side for a brief moment, then the settings seemed to change. We store your Screen Options in cookie data so you can access the same settings from everywhere. It looks to be working correctly now on your site as well. If you’re still having trouble, can you check all three boxes as shown here at the bottom:
Save those changes. Then, uncheck them all and make any changes you want to make. Then, click save again. That seems to allow new settings to be saved.
Can you let me know if this works?
Jeremey
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Wow, this is really something. I checked every post, and the both the Discussion and Comment blocks were checked for each post. That wasn’t the case yesterday. So, either: 1) I was hallucinating yesterday, or 2) you did me a big favor and changed the settings for each post, or 3) the blog gods intervened on my behalf.
I’m going to assume the answer is no. 2. Even if that’s not the case, I want to thank you for all your help, Jeremy.
Merry Christmas,
Jack
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Hey Jack,
It took a bit for the settings to change on my side as well. I’m guessing it just takes a few minutes for the cookie data to update to your preferred settings. Regardless, I’m glad everything is worked out now!
Have a great Christmas as well!
Cheers,
Jeremey
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