WordPress.com 3 Plans
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Anyone who has done any of the 3 Plans can answer my queries below:
Looking at your 3 Plans I saw only the Business Plan can use
ecommerce. Can this eCommerce use PayPal BUY NOW button for this Plan.I may be interested in the Premier Plan and please answer the questions below.
Q1. If I register my Domain like http://www.specialasianfood.com at WordPress for $18.00 what about my the other Domain registered at http://www.ipower.com? or I can also Map It – would it still be the same as my Domain?Q2. Do I have to choose My Plan first and than activate My Website ? Where can I activate for Public viewing in WordPress.com? Would I be able to edit my website later after activation?
Q3. How do I use Akismet Stats, Links, All Links
I would appreciate if any expert can explain on the above
You can also email to (email visible only to moderators and staff)Sophia Lim
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I absolutely do not recommend registering your domain with WP. They tacked on a bunch of extra fees that more than doubled the cost. I thought they were one-time set-up fees, so I paid. But they charged them again the next year. When I didn’t want to pay, they wouldn’t let me transfer the registration to another registrar. By this point, I had redirected the domain to another hosting company. Since they wouldn’t let me transfer the domain, I basically had to abandon it for about a year, until it fell back into availability. Then I registered it elsewhere.
Go find a cheap webhost. Usually, domain registration AND the WP content platform is included.
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Hi there, let me try answering your queries.
Looking at your 3 Plans I saw only the Business Plan can use
ecommerce. Can this eCommerce use PayPal BUY NOW button for this Plan.You can use the PayPal button on all the plans, including the Business/eCommerce plan! Business plan additionally allows you to integrate stores like Shopify.
For PayPal button integration, please read this guide.
Q1. If I register my Domain like http://www.specialasianfood.com at WordPress for $18.00 what about my the other Domain registered at http://www.ipower.com? or I can also Map It – would it still be the same as my Domain?
You can either register a new domain or map your existing one. If you map a domain, it will start pointing to your blog and you will retain the same address. Domain Mapping costs $13/year — a detailed article on setting it up is available here.
Q2. Do I have to choose My Plan first and than activate My Website ? Where can I activate for Public viewing in WordPress.com? Would I be able to edit my website later after activation?
You can experiment with a free blog, or go for a full-featured trial of the Business plan. Latter will require you to enter payment details but you will not be charged until the trial period is over, which I believe is 14 days.
And yes, you can absolutely edit your blog whenever you want! :)
Q3. How do I use Akismet Stats, Links, All Links
All the blogs hosted here at WordPress.com have Akismet built-in and activated. You can approve/reject/filter comments from Dashboard > WP Admin > Comments.
Hope that helps! :)
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They tacked on a bunch of extra fees that more than doubled the cost. I thought they were one-time set-up fees, so I paid. But they charged them again the next year.
I think you were charged for the extra features because you had bought one of the Premium/Business bundle plans. They include domain, as well as other features including CSS customization, additional storage etc.
You also have the option to buy only a domain name. You are charged annually for domains everywhere, and that’s also how it works here. If you go this route and add only a domain to your blog, you won’t get charged for any extra features — only the domain name.
I’m sorry you had a bad experience but personally from my experience, the process is quite clear and transparent, you are shown exactly what you’re buying and what’s included in it.
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ehtis@indylibrarytech – this is your email ehtis ?
Thank you for your response to my email of 13 Aug 2015. You are better than WordPress Staff at least you answer to my questions. I will now answer you below.
A. 1 My Domain is registered with Two Cows Resgistrant and serviced by http://www.ipower.com (I will just let it remain there as it will be renewed on expiry 10 Oct 2015) I will use “Map It” from WordPress – go to Domain and do it from there.My webhosting with Ipower.com will expire on 28 Sept.2015 and that is the reason I am learning and constructing my website here at WordPress and hope to finish quickly.
A2. I do not want to use the Business Plan as I am still a novice learning WordPress. Do you agree that I can activate to view publicly once I sign up the Domain http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com as Primary Domain and then “Map It”
I also will be directed to URL http://specialasianfood.comA3. I am constructing my website on the Free Plan. Do you know about “Links”. Perhaps I will discuss with you on a separate email.
A4. I have tried doing Paypal on my website many times and the BUY NOW button with bank logos were not displayed. I will tell you how I login and you can explain to me the right way.
I login to Paypal>Profile>My Sellers Tools>Paypal buttons Update I have my 3 pdf cookbooks under drop down Action. I edited and created the button and was given e.g. The Asian Chinese Cookbook ID:LPGJVJGDQCZH2
Dot Merchant ID
1. I copy and paste the Email Code (as WordPress does not allow Embed HTML Code) and edit in Text Editor but I cannot see in Visual the Papal BUY NOW buttonI will send you the Email Code and WordPress Code in separate email as I cannot go and copy and paste here now.
2. I want to edit BUY NOW button under each of the cookbooks in the right Sidebar – show me the method step by step so that I can see the invoice page and Paypal credit card page
Thank you for your attention and reply.
Sophia Lim
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Hi ehtis
Email Code from Paypal
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LP6JVJGDQCZH2Email Code from WordPress
<img src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif” alt=”Buy Now Button with Credit Cards” />You can see the difference – there is no BUY NOW button and BUY NOW Button with Credit Cards in the Email Code from PayPal
Sophia Lim
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ehtis@indylibrarytech – this is your email ehtis ?
Nope, that’s not my email ID — you were automatically sent an email because you were subscribed to this thread. We can’t email you directly, your address is stripped off by the forum software to keep your privacy intact. Only Staff can view it.
Do you agree that I can activate to view publicly once I sign up the Domain http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com as Primary Domain and then “Map It”
I also will be directed to URL http://specialasianfood.comYes, that’s absolutely possible. If you’re the owner of specialasianfood.com, you can use Domain Mapping and then set it as the primary domain for specialasianfood.wordpress.com.
I am constructing my website on the Free Plan. Do you know about “Links”. Perhaps I will discuss with you on a separate email.
I’m not sure what you mean by links here, but if you can elaborate it a bit, I or someone else will surely chip in to answer you.
I have tried doing Paypal on my website many times and the BUY NOW button with bank logos were not displayed.
I just tried it with your code and it works! Two ways to use it.
- You can either add a text widget to your sidebar and paste it there (preferred).
- Or, paste it directly in a post using the Text/HTML editor.
Here’s the code you should copy/paste:
<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LP6JVJGDQCZH2"><img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" alt="Buy Now Button with Credit Cards" /></a> -
Hi ehtis
You can type in your URL and see my website http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com temporary as I have not finish constructing. I am using the Free Plan Please do not change anything there – you must inform me.I have decided to move my domain to WordPress from Ipower when my webhosting expires on 28 Sep 2015.
1. I copy and paste my PayPal Email Code and HTML Code to my WordPress Free Plan right Sidebar Widget but it do now show the BUY NOW logo. Even I Customised also cannot show.
Please give me the right method. When I click The Asian Chinese Cookbook I want to see the Invoice page and PayPal Credit Card page2. I click on The Asian Cookbook on the right Sidebar it shows the Recipes Table of Contents. I think it was previously linked that way.
Otherwise can I paste my PayPal HTML and Email Codes from menu Cookbooks page ?Thank you for your attention and reply.
Sophia Lim
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