WordPress blog startup problems
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Trying to sign up for a new blog, sick of the Google sterility new change in google blogging, but so far WORDPRESS is worse. Can’t get it working in my own domain, and when I tried to start a free blog here at WordPress.com it kept on bombing, telling me cryptically to ‘try again’ though I completed everything properly.
The Yahoo version of WordPress is even worse, full of arcane garbage which never worked when you filled out the fields, telling me that the Yahoo PHP files were too old or something. So I’m in the forum in the hopes of getting answers. Right now WordPress looks very complicated and bad, and I’m not a happy camper.
If you own a business you don’t have time for dysfunctional stuff like this.
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To the stupid support bot — I don’t HAVE a blog, I tried to GET one. The reason is stated in the TITLE and in the content of the post.
Wow, if this is how the forum works, maybe I should stick with Google.
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Strange, because the process of getting a free blog on WordPress is one of the simplest things most people do all day.
Go here: http://wordpress.com , press the big orange button and follow the instructions.
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Stranger still, feartheseeds, that the email sending me your post, was also dysfunctional, not accepting my login when I was already logged in.
Yeah, the big orange button. Yeah, and it didn’t work. Three times I did it over and over, even typing in my first post as my profile.
This is not good. But for now, Google Blogger is still using its old interface, and so long as it does, I can let WordPress slide. Which I’d like very much to do, as each time I try to do something related to it, glitches happen. Quite strange, why people like it.
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…not accepting my login when I was already logged in.
If you’re logged in, you’ve already created an account. Go here:
https://en.wordpress.com/signup/
Fill out the form, click the button, and presto, you’ll have a blog to go with your account.
But, if you read what the SupportBot told you to read (instead of attacking it), you’ll notice that there’s a difference between WP.COM and WP.ORG. If you were using Yahoo “webhosting” and trying to use Yahoo PHP files, it seems like maybe you don’t know the difference.
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I’ve been having recent issues with WordPress.com as well, however, the problems disappeared when I installed the most recent Win 7 updates. Don’t know what OS you are using brainouty, but that might solve your problem. I was getting an invalid url message in Chrome, and an error in IE that said they were unable to connect to the url. Give it a go…and don’t let the frustrations overpower the good things in your day.
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feartheseeds, I fear you’re the one not reading my post. The problem is a) when I tried to set up an account RIGHT HERE at WordPress, it didn’t work — three times. I write HTML code, been using internet for 11 years, so I know how to set up an account, could even write my own blog code. So this is a bona fide problem with WordPress.
As for the Yahoo hosting problem, it was VIA YAHOO that WordPress interfaces, and it demanded an upgrade in order to set up the blog, a request that shouldn’t be given to the user, but to YAHOO as the host.
So it is irrelevant, what’s the difference between org or com. What’s relevant, is that someone isn’t minding the store. And with this, I leave off posting.
To behrm, I’m on XP Professional with SP3, and that shouldn’t be relevant, either. XP has been out for a long time, and if the kinks aren’t worked out by now, then I surely don’t want to waste more time on a blog which doesn’t even have a functional signup, tie-in with Yahoo, and an emailing of posts which also doesn’t take me to the forum, but instead to some other page so I have to keep on navigating back here.
Thank you all for your time. This is enough to turn me off WordPress, and I won’t come back. Will write up my own blog code if I have to.
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Try updating Windows. Some bloggers who were having similar problems updated Windows and now their blogs work fine.
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WordPress.com does not have anything to do with Yahoo, though you can host a WordPress install using Yahoo as your hosting provider and the software available at WordPress.org.
For that, this link may be helpful:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/wordpress/wordpress-03.htmlThere is a difference between self-hosted WordPress blogs and the ones we host at WordPress.com. If you were having difficulties setting up your site through Yahoo, then it’s not an issue for WordPress.com, but instead, an issue for Yahoo.com.
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I’ve been having problems, too.I started wanting Yahoo to host my WordPress blog because I already pay for a website there. I was having all sorts of problems including not getting the template to update or change. http://www.walk-magazine.com/blog/. It looks horrible and I’m having difficulty getting it to accept my changes.
I finally ended up setting up a free blog on WordPress. It wasn’t easy, but it worked. I even transferred my Blogger blog over. So today I decided to transfer the free WordPress blog over to Yahoo blog mentioned earlier. That should be easy, right? I exported the WordPress blog. Accessed the Yahoo account. Imported the files and it failed — repeatedly.
At least from following this discussion, I think I should be contacting Yahoo.
Regardless, I do not think WordPress is easy. I find it difficult to find what I’m looking for. Sometimes I expect links that aren’t there. I just find that things are not intuitive to me. Maybe it is because Blogger is so super easy that someone with limited experience can do it.
Any advice for working with WordPress on Yahoo would be appreciated.
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Any advice for working with WordPress on Yahoo would be appreciated.
We do not provide support for WordPress on Yahoo here at WordPress.com. We provide support only tor those who have free hosted WordPress.com blogs on this forum.
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