Upgrading to premium plan
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Hi there,
I have just created myself a blog using the free wordpress version. However I now wish to upgrade to have my own domain and I’ll need more features. I’d just like to know if the premium plan will cover what I need and how to do certain things.
1. I want to have a comments section for each article at the very bottom – is this possible with premium? Further to that, people would have to make accounts on my blog and sign up.
2. When ‘subscribes to stay updated’ do I have access to there emails, can I export these emails?
3. I want to make my own unique email – (email visible only to moderators and staff). I want it connected to my gmail. How do i do this?
4. For each article I have a ‘contact me’ form for anyone that needs help – this will need to go directly to the new email address – how do i do this?thankyou,
tom -
Yes, you would need to upgrade to use a custom domain. But as for comments, subscribers and a contact form I don’t believe anything will be different whether you have a free plan or a paid plan. Also WordPress.com doesn’t offer email hosting although there are workarounds: https://wordpress.com/support/add-email/
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Hi there,
1. I want to have a comments section for each article at the very bottom – is this possible with premium? Further to that, people would have to make accounts on my blog and sign up.
As mentioned above, comments are a built-in feature available on all WordPress.com sites. It doesn’t require any upgrade.
Whether or not someone must be logged into a WordPress.com account to comment depends on your site’s discussion settings. But user accounts on WordPress.com are handled on the platform level, not the site level.
If you want people to be able to register accounts specifically for your site, and only those people to be able to comment, you’ll need the Business plan so you can add a membership plugin to your site instead.
2. When ‘subscribes to stay updated’ do I have access to there emails, can I export these emails?
You have access to the email addresses of email-only subscribers at My Site ->Manage ->People ->Email followers and can export them from there as a CSV file which you can then upload to a newsletter service like Mailchimp.
But you do not have access to the email addresses of people who subscribe to your site via a WordPress.com username account. Those are listed under People ->Followers and we only reveal their usernames/public display names to site owners. WordPress.com followers cannot be exported.
3. I want to make my own unique email – (email visible only to moderators and staff). I want it connected to my gmail. How do i do this?
The only way to connect an email to your existing Gmail is to set up a forwarding address, but that will be a receive-only address – Gmail doesn’t allow you to set up an alias so you can also send from such an address.
Setting up an alias you can send from requires Google’s G Suite (originally called Gmail for Business). You can buy that directly from us:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/adding-g-suite-to-your-site/
4. For each article I have a ‘contact me’ form for anyone that needs help – this will need to go directly to the new email address – how do i do this?
When you set up a contact form you can specify which email address you want submission to go to. By default it will go to the email address on file for your WordPress.com account.
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