Unlimited Private Users: a quick query
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Hi All,
I have two blogs running at present under the same username etc., and I have the following package on one of them:Custom CSS
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“This upgrade allows you to add custom CSS to customize any theme on this current blog”Q. Can I upgrade from that package so that I can customise CSS on my other blog too? I see this package:
Unlimited Private Users
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“Add as many users to your private blog as you like. This upgrade removes the 35 user limit on private blogs.”I’m not sure what that means. Hoping someone can clarify.
Thanks!
JohnThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Oops, sorry “35 user limit”. Must mean the number of people than can separately log-into the blog.
I suppose then, if I want two CSS customisable blogs, I just have to buy two licenses?
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Yes, the CSS upgrade is per blog, so if you want to customize two then you will have to buy two upgrades.
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Thanks, ‘pity they don’t offer an incentive package. Oh well.
I haven’t found a template that’s customisible without paying extra.
Is there any disadvantage to just running WordPress on my own server – and doing whatever I want with it? Or is it all plusses? I presume it’ll all link into the WordPress Blogosphere just as well as the .com versions do.
John
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Well, it’s definitely more expensive to buy hosting than it is to buy the CSS upgrade for two blogs for a year. But if you own a server and you’re already paying for a server-type internet plan, you should be fine.
And no, it will not link to the WordPress.comosphere. It exists entirely separate from that. You will not have the global tag pages, etc. This forum will not be able to help you. You will have to look over at WordPress.ORG for your answers.
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Hi Raincoaster,
Yes, the hosting co. has WordPress installations ready to go on the server. If it’s not going to perform well as part of the ‘.comosphere’ – sort of cut-off – that’d definitely concern me.Sounds like the .org version might be more like a self-contained blog-based CMS.
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More or less, yes. Think of it as a blog free-floating in space. It will work for posting like all the rest of WordPress, but you can install plugins, new themes, stuff like that. Use javascript or flash all you want. But if anything goes wrong, you’re more or less on your own, and it’s up to you to build connections to the rest of the blogosphere.
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Self-hosting Pro: You can do anything you want.
Self-hosting Con: You can do anything you want (including completely b0rking your blog – I fix b0rked blogs on a regular basis). OMFG!!! My blog blew up, everything is gone, people are dying!!!
You have to do all upgrades (making sure not to overwrite any customization or you have to do it again), you have to do all backups, you have to do all troubleshooting and repair. If you install bad code that b0rks your blog or introduces a security hole someone drives a backhoe through, it is on you.
There are a lot of bad themes, plugins and code out there and if you install something that brings down a web host’s server, your life can begin to really suck. A friend’s underage son brought down his web host server and the parents got a bill from the web host for over $5,000.
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Hi there.
I’m still lauging at the last two replies lads! We have a very popular site run by the Irish Jesuits and it’s been customised beyond recognition with LOADS of brilliant features and widgets. Trouble is – it occasionally goes belly up along with other things on the server! Like you said. Sometimes because a 3rd party plugin has been updated – then blammo!Yup. .com for me. $15 well-spent I’d say!
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Oops, one more question. Do I have to be decided absolutely on 1 theme before upgrading for the CSS? Or do you pay per blog as opposed to per theme?
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Ah, I tried switching themes on my other blog and I DIDN’T lose my customn CSS. The same CSS applies to any theme you pick (assuming the tags are the same in each theme).
So I can upgrade and decide whenever I like which theme to go with.
John
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The CSS upgrade is per blog, so you can change themes as often as you want, but CSS is THEME SPECIFIC and most times when you apply CSS from one theme to another, it will break your blog. If you have customized a particular theme, and then you switch themes, you will have to customize the new one all over again.
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That’s grand – thanks. I found a way of getting the comments to display at the top of the post – via CSS if anyone’s interested?
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