Trying to use my .org site
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I am very new at this, but I was given an option of two sites and chose friendlyfishing.org. Friendlyfishingdotcom.wordpress.com was another I didn’t choose. But i’m some how working with it when i’m not trying to. I don’t understand its purpose or use. Lost, please help.
Thanks, DonnieThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Okay, no.
http://friendlyfishingdotcom.wordpress.com/ is your blog. You deleted the “placeholder” post that was there, so when you go to the main page you get a 404 error. Write a Post (not a Page) and that error message will go away and never return.
Because of the way the registration is set up, it appears you may or may not have mistakenly bought the domain name friendlyfishing.org as well. It doesn’t resolve, so it appears you didn’t. If you really want the URL http://friendlyfishingdotcom.org then you will need to buy it via your Dashboard Upgrades page. It’s cheap. $17 a year for both the name and mapping it to your blog.
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I bought the domain friendlyfishing.org last night at that price. When i’m logged into wordpress.com I am able to go to that page and it has a gray option bar, as on this site. I go to that site, then click on dashboard (thinking i’m going to be working on my page), but instead i’m working on the friendlyfishingdotcom.wordpress.com page. Now I’ve read since then that it helps to be more technically minded with a .org site, then with the former ‘dotcom’ site, among other things. Please feel free to elaborate on what i’m missing or fill me in. Any help is welcome. Thanks raincoaster!
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@stoufferd2, you setup http://friendlyfishingdotcom.wordpress.com/ on the stoufferd2, but it looks like you setup a different account named stoufferd with the friendlyfishing.org domain registered and mapped to http://friendlyfishingdotorg.wordpress.com/
So it seems part of the trouble is you’ve setup two different accounts and you might be confusing the naming of them.
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I have only been doing this for a couple of days and took one Computer Science class in college. Should I be using the .org option or consider .com? From what I’ve read so far you have more freedom to do what you want with .org, but it also helps to be technically knowledgeable about software and building a site if you do.
I also want to create forums where people can talk, or is that not possible under wordpress.com? I’m just trying to get a sense of what my limitations are… -
@stoufferd
This entry describes the differences between free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and free software WordPress.ORG for self-hosting. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/In the case of a free hosted WordPress.COM blog you cannot embed a forum into it. You can get a free forum on the internet and link to it from the blog.
In the case of a free software WordPress.ORG for self-hosting you must hire a web host, install the software and a theme, and plugins. In that case there are plugins for forums you can use.
Though i click installs have made WordPress.ORG blogging easier than it was before please take note of the following.
(1) For self-hosting figure an average monthly total cost (including cost of a domain name) of about $10 to $25 generally, but that all depends on storage and bandwidth requirements.
(2) You will be responsible for all upgrades, installations, backups and troubleshooting. If you install a theme or a plugin that negatively affects your blog, then you have to figure out what went wrong and fix it.
(3) WordPress.ORG support is not the “hand-holding” kind of support you get on this forum. The turnaround time for getting answers to questions is not “quick” like it is here at WordPress.COM. There’s a learning curve involved. If you are not skilled at WordPress.COM blogging, and also lack the skill sets required to self host your own WordPress.ORG install then acquiring those skills first is recommended.
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