Self-Hosted Blog Concerns.
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Hello, I recently started my blog over and I have a few concerns because I want to eventually have my own domain website. Here is few questions I’ve come across and please in your answer’s tell me which number you’re answering, please and thank you in advance!
1) Why if you go to a self-hosted blog, does the status bar (where you see your own stats, and notifications) disappear? Is it because it’s not a .wordpress.com site?
2) Why can’t you follow a self-hosted blog, where it shows up in your reader?
3) What is e-mail subscription and how does it differ from following a blog?
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We don’t provide support for any blogs other than those hosted by WordPress.COM and no sites that are not hosted by WordPress.COM have posts that automatically appear in the WordPress.COM Topics (Categories and tags) pages because they are not a part of the WordPress.COM community.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password -
1) Yes.
2) You can add any URL here https://wordpress.com/following/edit/ and have the posts appear in the WordPress.COM reader.
3) Is that being asked in the WordPress.COM blogs context?
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One can follow a WordPress.COM blog and have the post appear in the Reader but not choose to have copies of posts emailed to them.
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Timethief,
3) So ‘to follow’ a non .wordpress.com site, is to basically subscribe, and in no way they can appear on your reader? Because I have friends who chose the self-hosted route ( I do not know the first thing about running my own site, so I stick with .wordpress.com) and they don’t show up on my WordPress reader. -
But I just looked at your blog onecoolsitebloggingtips.com, a non .wordpress.com domain and you still have the status bar?
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Allow me to take another run at a this. Any WordPress.COM blogger can enter any URL for any site hosted anywhere into the WordPress.COM Reader https://wordpress.com/following/edit/ and the posts published on it will appear in their WordPress.COM Reader.
Posts on any blog that is NOT hosted by WordPress.COM will not appear on the WordPress.COM Topics (categories and tags) pages. Only posts published on WordPress.COM blogs appear on those pages.
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My blogs are on their own domains but are in fact hosted right where it says they are hosted on the bottom of the site ie. they are hosted by WordPress.COM.
If you intend to blog over the long term and are your prepared to pay the price for an annual domain mapping upgrade then read on.
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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Thank you! I understand now, you definitely made light of the situation. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
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Thanks for this awesome thread, it was exactly what I was struggling with. I understand all you guys said, now the one thing I don’t is… how the heck did you get that follow bar across your website timetheif? It makes it easy for people who use the WP.com reader to follow your site, even if it is a self hosted site that doesn’t show up in the wordpress.com feed/community. Please help!!
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