Setting up a menu in the Modern News theme
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This guide explains how you can add a Custom Contact Form to your blog.
We don’t allow plugins on WordPress.com for security reasons. Plugins are a feature only available for self-hosted blogs provided through WordPress.org.
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Can you explain the difference between what I’m doing and a self-hosted blog with WordPress.org?
Also, I added the contact form per your instruction (http://daniellaalpher.com/contact/), is there any way for me to take out the “Leave a Reply” part on the bottom of the page?
Thank you.
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You can disable comments for that page by following this guide:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/#enabledisable-commentsThat’ll remove the ‘Leave a Reply’ section you’re referring to.
You can find a good summary of the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here:
Let me know if you have any questions! :-)
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Hi, I’m not seeing a “discussion module” on the edit screen of that specific page… Where is it?
thanks for the link about com vs. org I’ll take a look at it.
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If you can’t find the discussion module, make sure it’s enabled in the Screen Options toward the top of the editor page.
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I don’t have all the screen options shown in the screenshot in the link you sent me. I only have seven: right now, recent comments, your stuff, what’s hot, Quickpress, recent drafts and stats. So no option to activate or deactivate a discussion.
What do you suggest? This is not directed personally at you but I hope I don’t have to wait another 24 hours for a response. I continue to be astounded at the way WordPress has set up its support.
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You’ll need to enable the Discussion module in the Screen Options of your editor page.
1) Please open this link:
https://daniellaalpher.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=45&action=edit2) Click on the “Screen Options” button at the top of this page.
3) Check the “Discussion” box
4) Scroll down to the Discussion module, and uncheck the boxes marked “Allow comments” and “Allow pingbacks”
5) Update your changes to the page
I hope this helps — let me know if you have any questions! :-)
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Hi I have a new question: When the site was being hosted by another company I had a functioning email account. Now that I switched to WordPress nameservers it isn’t working. What is the necessary incoming/outgoing nameserver info now for a POP3 account? Username?
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Continuing on the previous message: I saw something about WordPress not hosting email accounts but enabling other providers to. I’m using Bluehost. My DNS is mail.daniellaalpher.com but when I try to add it as a custom DNS record I’m getting an error that it’s the wrong format. What do I do?
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That’s correct — we don’t host email ourselves, but you can use a different provider.
We have full instructions for using Google Apps to host your email:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/If you want to use Bluehost for your email, you’ll need to obtain the proper MX and CNAME records from them, and add them according to these instructions:
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/ -
I believe my MX record is mail.daniellaalpher.com but when I try to add it I get an error message about it being the wrong format. I’ve double-checked with Bluehost and that is the correct record. Can you address this specific problem instead of the general how to?
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The correct format should be:
MX <pref> <host>.something like:
MX 10 mail.daniellaalpher.com.The above is just an example and the number may be incorrect, so please ask Bluehost for the exact MX record.
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I’ve checked with them and they still don’t understand what is missing. Take a look here http://daniellaalpher.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bluehost.jpg, that’s a screenshot of my Bluehost data. What do you suggest?
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Okay that work the record is saved. What happens now? Will the email account just start working again within 24 hours?
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Please try contacting BlueHost again, and ask them for the full DNS records that are necessary to get your email working.
It would be helpful if you’d let them know that you’ve mapped your domain to WordPress.com, and you’re using our name servers.
They should be able to provide you with MX records, and possibly CNAME or A records, to get your email working.
The following record is insufficient to get your email working, because it just points back to a subdomain of a domain that’s hosted here. In order for this to work, there would need to be another record that points to BlueHost’s servers.
MX 0 mail.daniellaalpher.com.If you can’t get your BlueHost email working, you might consider using Google Apps, as they provide free email hosting in most scenarios:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/
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I don’t want to use Google, if we can’t make this work I will move the domain to GoDaddy. But before giving up: the IP is 66.147.242.189. What do I do with this number…?
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