Switched from Weebly to WordPress

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  amplif1er · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm

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  Hi all,

  I switched over from weebly to wordpress(.com) because of the speed increase but I can’t migrate my embedded Nabble forum to a new empty wordpress page. Now I have to make a link behind a button to my weebly account which is ehhh not professional looking :)

  Please don’t tell me it’s not allowed because I was just finished, I don’t wanna start over again somewhere else, is it not allowed or am I missing something ?

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

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  amplif1er · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 4:54 pm

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  Ok, maybe I started on the wrong foot and didn’t sound so ‘nice’ :)
  The reason why I started so desperate without doing some research in the faq/forum etc is because I probably expected a bit too much for 100% free services.

  I started at 110mb, which has nice themes like Eclipse for example (if you like dark ones), but lacked a blog for free (news module without the possibility to receive comments/feedback).
  Afterwards I tried Yola and Weebly together but found weebly easier to work with, maybe the control panel software is a bit unstable but I came in a world where everything seemed possible for free… google adsense, many plugins etc., but the pages are loading very slowly sometimes (not all the time) and the blog isn’t powerful (lacking tools).

  Then someone recommended WordPress. Because I do have webspace on multiple sources (also for free without ads) supporting almost everything, I could easily upload my own blog/website with everything I need instead, but the problem is: I don’t understand how php works at the moment.

  So I tried wordpress.com and realized this blog has much more strenght.
  But the problem is that I had to post everything again and again when starting over somewhere else, so I thought ‘no not again!’ when I couldn’t paste the complete html code of nabble :)
  I think I have to leave the notebook behind for a week or so, better for my health :)

  greetings,
  Amp

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 5:26 pm

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  You are not going to be able to embed a forum in pages here at wordpress.COM. Because this is a multi-user platform, we all share the same underlying files, and that means that if a user would put some bad code into a blog here, it could potentially effect a very large number of blogs. For this reason, wordpress.COM limits what code we can use here. No iframes, no javascript, no forms, no flash.

  Depending on what theme you are using, there is a trick that can be used to turn a top navigation tab into an external link: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/ . Consider only the themes in the left hand column. If you are using a theme without top navigation, the pages widget in all themes works with this trick.

  The other option is to put an image or text link into a text widget and place it at the top of the sidebar linking to your forum.

  If you absolutely, positively, have to have the forum embeded in the blog, then you will have to bite the bullet and go self-hosted. Figure on $10 to $25 per month total cost. Depending on your bandwidth and storage requirements, it can go higher.

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  t3ck · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 6:28 pm

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  You could set up a free professional looking forum with http://freeforums.org and link to it from your blog

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  amplif1er · Member · Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40 am

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  solved it by migrating to wordpress.or on “own” free host :)
  http://Almost2012.tk

  Thanks for the help