support for rel-payment microformat

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  herestomwiththeweather · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 6:47 pm

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  wordpress.com already has support for quickly associating microformats with links but the choices are restricted and do not include the rel=”payment” microformat. i think this would be a great addition to the choices and will help adoption of alternative currencies.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 6:57 pm

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  @herestomwiththeweather
  Are you referring to members making payments for upgrades? If so and if you wish you can suggest that to Staff. Here’s the link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  herestomwiththeweather · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 7:11 pm

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  no. i’m thinking about things like timebanking where visitors to my blog can easily make a payment to me. i manually created the link (with rel=”payment” attribute) on the right:

  http://herestomwiththeweather.wordpress.com/

  i just want wordpress.com to allow me to do that using the faster add a link feature which already has support for things like rel=”me”, etc.

  matt mullenweg expressed interest in starting his own bank on his blog. this simple change would make it a lot easier for people to do alternative grassroots banking.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 7:13 pm

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  If however you are new to wordpress.com and aren’t aware of the types of blogs allowed and not allowed here then reading these entries I link to below will be helpful.

  WordPress.com blogs cannot be used to drive traffic to third party sites and we cannot advertise on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. Therefore wordpress.com blogs cannot be equipped for ecommerce.
  types of blogs allowed and not allowed
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  no blogger initiated advertising
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

  So if you want to have a “commercial” blog then you will need to hire a web host and get a free software download from wordpress.ORG.
  wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG the differences >
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

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  herestomwiththeweather · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 7:15 pm

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  to be clear, this has nothing to do with dollars or commercial activity. it is for grassroots local economic development. thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2010 at 7:19 pm

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  Sorry. We were typing simultaneously above so my comment posted 2 minutes after yours. :)

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  herestomwiththeweather · Member · Jun 13, 2010 at 7:25 am

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  here’s a screencast to demonstrate the value of adding this microformat to wordpress.com:

  http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/2010/06/opentransact-rel-payment-and-openid.html

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2010 at 7:56 am

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  You need to talk with staff about this as they are the ones with the say over such things. The vast majority of us here in the forums are simply volunteers and have no sway over what features are supported here.

  Contact

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  herestomwiththeweather · Member · Jun 13, 2010 at 4:36 pm

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  thanks! i sent a message to support.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2010 at 7:03 pm

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  You’re welcome.