I’m afraid WordPress will be blocked in China
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I’m afraid WordPress will be blocked in China! Moving my blog at Windows Live Spaced to WordPress.com is a good thing, but I’m a little worried, because I’m really afraid that WordPress is going to be blocked in China, just like blogger, youtube, twitter etc.. If this assumption comes true, all my posts is going to be lost! So I’m a little hesitated to use WordPress as my permanent space.
[Edited title to more clearly reflect thread content] -hewsut
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The title of your thread is misleading.
I clicked because I thought China threatened to block WP.com effective a certain date. But no, you are just afraid (and I understand why you would). See here, you might be reassured:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-server-blocked-in-china -
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@jacobliu One thing I would suggest is exporting your blog via Tools->Export from the dashboard here. Be sure you have all your pictures backed up somewhere on your computer as well.
China is not currently blocking us, but we don’t have any control over what they do unfortunately. Exporting your content as mentioned above will provide you a safe backup.
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Today, I logged onto my WordPress account to find that my site is <i>mostly</i> blocked in China now – as in instead of the site properly displaying its themes and the placement & color of text and widgets, it instead looks like total 狗屎 (chinese for dog feces), with everything aligned to the left, in simple blocks and black texting.
Needless to say, I was rather angry, especially since this is my third blog that has been blocked in China (after Blogger’s fall, and then Google’s ‘Sites’ here in China).
But luckily, WordPress is cool enough to still be usable if you employ a simple little trick – use a proxy, even a free online one. Blogger doesn’t work with this, but, praise the Buddha, WordPress’s Dashboard can still function through a proxy. The one I’m using to currently see my site and Dashboard once again in MARVELOUS technicolor and proper layouts is CTunnel.
Look it up on Google (if that’s not blocked yet), and then if my little proxy is blocked soon, then it’s time to upgrade to either a proper domain without WordPress in the name (they block the blogs with a http://www.sometihng.WORDPRESS.com in it – without the ‘wordpress’ in the domain name it’s totally fine) or it’s time to finally subscribe to a proper VPN Proxy service to get over the Great and Terrible Firewall of China. Happy Climbing!
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I am going to Shenzhen in December and concerned about wordpress not working. Any updates so far for the beginning of November now.. and the current status? Is there an alternate blog one can use in China for fellow friends/followers to read up on while away on a trip?
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It was unblocked during the Olympics, but is blocked again from all reports.
You have to use a proxie, or perhaps find one of the larger hotel chains that have been allowed to bypass the blocks for their guests.
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My friends in china told me last week that my WP blog is inaccessible. All I want to say in chinese is that 共产党我操你妈！！！
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I take it that you dished this thread out of the forum searchbox because you were angry and wanted to swear in Chinese at the Chinese government. We cannot help you with the actual issue and we do not offer emotional support.
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My blog janoklark.wordpress.com is now blocked after being forced to migrate from MSN spaces. I’ve exported the blog from under proxy, but I don’t know what to do with the .xml file. I can host from my webpage but hmm…I’ll have to figure out how all this works.
The CCP doesn’t seem to be too heterosexual these days.
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Translation: Falls harmoniously.
It isn’t wordpress’s issue. Would you rather they bow to Chinese pressure and kill any blog that says anything that China doesn’t like?
Get a grip man.
Try Blogger.
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Here is the link to a wordpress to blogger utility.
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Proxies are not always workable plus DNS pollutions caused by CN gov which are not publicly admitted. So now I just have to leave my blog blocked but sometimes log in via VPN.
Miserable, but what else can we do? A magic nation, as most of my friends will say.
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