What is the simplest way for visitors to my blog to be able to submit images?
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For the past four years, I’ve been curating The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies as a gallery show at Drawger.com, where it was a lot of fun and very popular. It’s been written up on boingboing.com and other sites, and I feel it’sd time to expand it. So, I’ve just moved it to WordPress a week ago. I have over 300 images I’ve brought with me that I’ll be posting in various categories here. The images have been submitted by visitors to Drawger.com, where they were able to submit (pending my approval) an image for posting along with a short description. That’s just what I want to allow here, along with visitor comments. I’ll be announcing the Museum’s new home here as soon as I’ve gotten a better handle on your learning curve. Anyway, I want anybody to be able to come to the blog, send me an image, and add it to the posts. But I also want to limit their control as much as possible. Sorry I’m so wordy with this, but I’d appreciate any help! I’m a newbie here, and the dashboard’s a bit confusing. Thanks so much in advance!
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Apologies for the inconvenience, but there is not an option to allow users to submit images to a WordPress.com blog as you have described. WordPress itself is very extensible though, and I would recommend checking with the WordPress.org community to see what plugins might be best for what you want to do.
WordPress.com and WordPress.org are a bit different. WordPress.com does not offer the ability to install plugins, but you can install plugins if you have a WordPress.org setup. See http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ to learn about the differences. It does mean moving again though, so I’m sorry about that!
You also may be able to keep using an outside service like you did before and then just insert the images into your blog post using the URLs from that service.
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Hmm. Thanks so much for your info. I was under the impression that there would be this option on Wordspress, but, alas, not to be the case. So, I need to get the hell out of Dodge, as they say :-), which means I am leaving WordPress. I’ve already canceled my Typekit subscription. But that brings us to a more important and basic question: I had registered the custom domain “museumofforgottenartsupplies.com” with WordPress, and had paid the $17 recently by credit card. I’m not looking for a refund. I know the time has passed for that, so not a problem.
BUT… (two questions here) (a.) Once I’ve canceled my site, am I free to use that domain name on my own if I want to elsewhere?; and (b.) since my site will be permanently removed from wordpress, please assure me that my credit card won’t be billed another $17 and so on each time 12 months comes around!
Thanks in advance, DesignSimply!
Yours Lou-ly,
Lou Brooks -
(a) Yes, the domain is yours, you can use it elsewhere if you’d like.
(b) To make it so you aren’t billed automatically in the future, go to your Upgrades -> Domains page and make sure the auto renew option is disabled.If you want to switch to using a different web host, what you’ll want to do is just update the name servers for your domain to your new host.
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