Weaver Extreme Theme
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I use Weaver extreme for a WordPress website hosted in France.
I wish to use my personal website (Chelvertoncom.wordpress.com) for archiving recent material from my business website and to use the free Theme called Weaver Extreme.
Is it possible, please, and if so, how??
Stephen
WP.com: Yes
Jetpack: No
Correct account: YesThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello Stephen,
It’s totally possible to use the Weaver Extreme theme with WordPress.com, and in order to achieve this, the site would need to be on the business plan.
The full features of the business plan can be found here: https://wordpress.com/pricing/
As you’re looking to create an archive, are you looking to duplicate the current site? If yes, it’s possible to move a copy of the site over to WordPress.com on the business plan, as per these steps: https://wordpress.com/support/import/import-an-entire-wordpress-site/ (which may be the way to go, if you’re looking to use the same theme)
Alternatively, if you’re looking to move just the content via Tools > Export, and then this can be imported to WordPress.com via these steps: https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
I hope this proves useful.
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Thanks – sorry for delay in response.
I use Weaver for a WordPress site, hosted by OVH in Paris (https://sorigny-comitejumelage.com – a paid for domain & host) and find Weaver very good.
Hence I think I am right in saying that you must have a paid for domain in order to use Weaver.
Since I am retired now and finally closing my own company’s website after six years of retirement & closing the company (chelverton.com, hosted by IONOS) my aim was to close the site and save costs.
It would seem that is not possible – or is it? I think I am missing something, somewhere. I would appreciate your advice. Thanks in advance.Stephen
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Hello there,
It is possible to close the site with OVH… in this sense it would not be visible.
It sounds like you’re looking to merge the two sites onto Chelvertoncom.wordpress.com? Is that correct? If yes, we can talk you through steps on how to perhaps merge two sites into one with WordPress.com.
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No – I do not wish to merge the sites – keeping a copy of the one I plan to delete (chelverton.com) is more of a vanity project – just keeping the last version for possible interest when I am even older :-)
It is simpler I think simply to print each page as a PDF & combine the files into one with the same hierarchy shown by bookmarks. It is no longer important, in the sense that the company is already closed at the end of 2015 and I expect to be moving house / downsizing this year. So the road name where I live and the website I created for my company in 1989 has become completely irrelevant to erstwhile suppliers, clients and associates. (There used to be a product called webzip for that).
The Twinning site https://sorigny-comitejumelage.com/ is still live and I am still web master (although we are try to find a replacement for me). Unfortunately my OVH login to WordPress is (email visible only to moderators and staff) & was unsure if I can change that to my Gmail address without locking myself out. The issue of the registered gravatar persona confused me further.
What I was asking the forum how to do it, and at the same time thinking that I might continue with a new site with very basic info on what the chelverton.com company was for old LinkedIn friends and colleagues or any new social contacts I might have later (to replace so many lost [AKA dead] friends and colleagues during the last three years.
Sorry about the length of the reply but that is the context. I appreciate your interest is clearly Weaver and I do appreciate your replies but I understand if you may wish to stop our conversation. However, since you are much more knowledgeable about the WordPress structure and rules than me, any final comment would be welcome. For example, I am relaxed about deleting my Gravitar persona and the test page or two I created – in other words happy to stop the conflict with the Twinning site and then change the logins to OVH and the hosted Twinning site. Does this make sense?
Thanks again,
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Hi @seh5516 , thanks for that additional context. It sounds like a lovely way to stay connected, and I can see why you’d want to hold onto that work. Let me see if I’ve understood your needs here:
- You have a site, chelverton.com, that will soon be archived/deleted because you’ve retired. You’d like to keep a copy of that just for the memories. It uses the Weaver Extreme theme, so you’d like to use the same theme on your archive if possible.
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https://sorigny-comitejumelage.com/, will remain live. But you currently log into it with an email address that will soon be retired. You have some concerns about replacing that email address with gmail, especially regarding what will happen with your Gravatar.
Does that catch the gist of what you need, or am I missing anything?
Regarding the site you want to copy: I’m not sure what to advise yet. You absolutely could install the Weaver Extreme theme here, but it would require the Business Plan, because outside code complicates the security and management services we include with all our plans. Would keeping that theme be worth it?
As alternatives, you may be able to create a similar look and feel with the themes we have here. It would require work and creativity to get it just so, and just so would still probably not be exact, but it would only use our code, so we’d take care of it for you without a Business Plan.
Or, you could continue to run your own installation of WordPress for that site. If you’ll share more about the reason you want Weaver Extreme, we may be able to recommend the best option.
Regarding the email address, you actually have two accounts plus a Gravatar tied to one of the accounts. So if I were in your shoes, here’s what I’d do:
- Go ahead and update the email address at WordPress.com now; confirm the changes
- Go to Gravatar.com next, and add the old address as secondary.
- At Gravatar.com, set your profile image for each address as you’d like (probably just use the same one for both). This will effectively give you one account with a Gravatar that works for either email.
- Since sorigny-comitejumelage.com is a separate copy of WordPress, that’s a separate account still. So I’d log into wp-admin there and update that account email address as well.
- Unless my goal were to cut off the old email abruptly, I’d probably add several years to the domain, then switch to using an email forwarder from the old address to gmail. That way I’d still get any mail that strayed that way. If you had the domain here, for the cost of its yearly registration, you could have an email forwarder and make the domain forward to the free site. Let us know if that interests you.
Please let me know if I’ve misunderstood any of this, and again if you can clarify more about the motive to use the Weaver theme on the archive site, we’ll be better able to advise.
Cheers!
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Hi again – my latest news:
- <<You have a site, chelverton.com, that will soon be archived/deleted because you’ve retired.>> Correct. When I have completed the changes to the 200+ logins I have with ‘me’@chelverton. com or (email visible only to moderators and staff), moved house physically away from the Chelverton area and saved a copy of all the current pages, I will be ready to archive or delete the site.
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https://sorigny-comitejumelage.com/, will remain live.>> I have changed my user login to my Gmail address (by adding it to the profile, making it the primary & deleting my chelverton address). I have tested and I can now login to the Sorigny WordPress site using a name or my Gmail address with a new password. The chosen Gravatar image (the same) now displays again as Admin, when I have logged in.
(For reference, the cost of the domain and hosting this site is done by the association of which I am a member; I work on it free of charge).
As I mentioned, when ready, I wish to delete chelverton.com and not have the cost of keeping the domain, paying for it and the hosting. I am sure that I and my partner will not be ready to close the chelverton.com domain & hosting this February, so it will be renewed for a year.
Whether or not create a personal site or blog I will decide a little later this year. Then the question of using Weaver will arise again.
Finally, I must thank you again for clarifying what to do with Gravitar, the Sorigny site and the Chelverton site. Having succeeded with that, I can continue with the preparations to complete my aims. A big thank you !!
StephenPS Good luck with your work / career & future ! If you are still with Weaver in a few months time, we might converse again. S
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