http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ WordPress.com Forums User Favorites: timethief en Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:41:19 +0000 http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/different-author-names-for-different-accounts#post-311402 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:32:24 +0000 maherlewis 311402@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>I have a work around if anyone is interested - </p> <p>1. I opened another account and I sent an invitation to this new account.<br /> a. Logout from your current account<br /> b. Open a new account<br /> c. Change the display name to whatever you like by going to "User" -&gt; "Profile"<br /> d. Log out from this account<br /> e. Login to your fist account and send an invitation to the account that you just opened. Here are the instructions to send invitation <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/adding-users/" rel="nofollow">http://support.wordpress.com/adding-users/</a></p> <p>2. Now, open the post of the second blog, click on edit, scroll down to the bottom where you will see "Post Author"</p> <p>3. Select the author that you want.</p> <p>The advantage of this is that, now you can write posts using two different names without having to switch between accounts!<br /> :) </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/different-author-names-for-different-accounts#post-311394 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:52:29 +0000 maherlewis 311394@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Here's the reply that I got from support... in case someone else wants to try the same thing<br /> ---------------------------<br /> Public display names are specific to accounts, not blogs. So - to have different display names, you would need to register another account and transfer one of those blogs to that new account. You could then modify the public display name in that account.<br /> ---------------------------</p> <p>I think having a feature where public display names are specific to blogs would be useful, as I could have one blog for my business and the other, personal and have separate "public names" names for them, that way I don't have to keep logging in and out of the accounts. But I guess I must be the only one who would want such a feature, else such a feature would have been there! :) </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/different-author-names-for-different-accounts#post-311388 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:30:45 +0000 maherlewis 311388@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>The blog address is maherlewis.wordpress.com </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/different-author-names-for-different-accounts#post-311387 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:29:35 +0000 sambauers 311387@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.</p> <p>This support forum is for WordPress.com hosted blogs only. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you need to seek help at the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">WordPress.org forums</a>, not here.</p> <p>If you don't understand the difference, you may find <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/">this information</a> helpful. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/different-author-names-for-different-accounts#post-311386 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:29:34 +0000 maherlewis 311386@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Hi,<br /> I have 2 blogs under the same account. For the first blog, I want the author to be "maherlewis" and for another blog, I want the author to be "maylewis". how do I do that.</p> <p>Changing, the display public name affects both the blogs.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-309763 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:00:29 +0000 timethief 309763@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>@everyone<br /> Thanks so much for your kind words. No hurry right on over to my blog <a href="http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com</a> and read all the great stuff I've prepared for you. ...lol :D </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-309761 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:55:54 +0000 osomuerte 309761@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Excellent information. I am eager to see the results. -Oso </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306641 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0000 otahminao 306641@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>thank you </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306595 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:54:38 +0000 funkink 306595@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Very helpful timethief, good for you </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306594 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:48:40 +0000 radiomovies 306594@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Thanks for the clear article - excellent and simple steps to follow.<br /> Cheers<br /> Philip </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306545 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:45:36 +0000 raincoaster 306545@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>You don't. You can see it because you're the owner and signed in, but nobody else can see it. If you don't want to see it, sign out. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306542 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:13:59 +0000 wwwnewsonline 306542@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>When posting, how do you take edit out, next to the time? </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306529 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:30:08 +0000 timethief 306529@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Okay then maybe I will. After all the bloggers who post here and others like them are the reason I have the blog. :) </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306474 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:59:10 +0000 raincoaster 306474@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Well, everyone else links to your blog; you might as well go ahead. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306435 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:09:47 +0000 smokeybones 306435@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Thank you very much for your help timethief, I will follow what you've said and let you know how it went. Truly appreciate the help :-) smokeybones </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306374 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:59:57 +0000 timethief 306374@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>@raincoaster<br /> Thanks. It's actually in a post on my blog but I was worried that if I posted the link to it here that I might be breaking a rule or something. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306371 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:56:58 +0000 raincoaster 306371@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>I've already referred several other people to it. Brilliant stuff! </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306370 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:56:21 +0000 timethief 306370@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>@sensuouscurmudgeon<br /> Thanks. :) I hope smokeybones returns to read this. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306278 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:30:33 +0000 sensuouscurmudgeon 306278@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Very informative, timethief. I didn't know about the DMOZ Directory. Thanks. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306029 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:12:29 +0000 timethief 306029@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>This is a lengthy and very detailed answer so please bookmark it. I found your blog here <a href="http://mrlnavy.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mrlnavy.wordpress.com/</a> - well done. </p> <p>(1) Find <strong> technorati </strong> <a href="http://www.technorati.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.technorati.com</a> on the web. Register and create an account, claim your blog(s), tag them, and register your favorite blogs. You will find that the site has excellent instructions to help you work through all the steps.</p> <p>(2) Also be sure to register your blog so you get the attention of <strong> search engines. </strong> It is said that Google's directory comes straight from the DMOZ Directory so look into getting your blog site listed in it. The DMOZ has strict guidelines as to who is listed. Submission info can be made here <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dmoz.org/</a></p> <p>"If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, Google, Netscape Search, Yahoo Search, and hundreds of other sites. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule."</p> <p>You should *NOT* submit your site to Google, Yahoo, and MSN more than once every 30 days.</p> <p>(a) Although <strong> Google </strong> says that manually submitting your pages to their index is unnecessary, they have an interface for you to do so. <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/addurl/" rel="nofollow">www.google.com/addurl/</a> But don't be surprised if it takes weeks for Google to acknowledge your site's existence. Also register for a Google webmaster account <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5uhnzq" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/5uhnzq</a> </p> <p>(b) <strong> MSN </strong> will seldom visit a website unless invited by submission. <a href="http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx</a></p> <p>(c) <strong> Yahoo </strong> frequents sites more than MSN but less than Google but will dramatically increase visits after submission. <a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit" rel="nofollow">http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit</a></p> <p>(3) If you have assigned categories and tags to your post they will already be appearing on the wordpress.com tag pages in order of the date/timestamp <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/tag/political-issues/" rel="nofollow">http://en.wordpress.com/tag/political-issues/</a></p> <p>(4) The best way to get comments is to visit other blogs that are on subjects directly related to the subjects that you blog about and leave meaningful comments. When you do this the bloggers may reciprocate by clicking your username which will be linked to your blog and arriving on your blog. </p> <p>(5) Here’s how to link your username to your blog in your blog Dashboard –&gt; Users –&gt; Your Profile. Then scroll down to where it says ‘Primary Blog‘ and fill in the address of your blog and then click ‘Update Profile‘.</p> <p>Once you’re done click “Update Profile”. Voila! Now every time you sign into the forum we can all click on your username and your blog will be linked to it. And every time you leave a comment on a blog your username can be likewise clicked and your blog can be instantly located.</p> <p>Note that there is a complete record of every post that you make to the forum on your forum profile page. Also note that when you mark a forum threads as “favorites” that you will find them listed on the forum profile page too. And everyone in the forum can access your forum profile by simply clicking on “Member” next to your username.</p> <p>Best wishes for happy blogging. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-to-blogging-2#post-306024 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:52:00 +0000 smokeybones 306024@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Hi, I am new to blogging and have made several comments on my new blog. How soon will my comments go out to the world? Is there a way I can check to see if my blog is being viewed by the public? i've received no comments yet. Thank you very much for your help.</p> <p>Smokeybones</p> <p><a href="http://mrlnavy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/" rel="nofollow">http://mrlnavy.wordpress.com/wp-admin/</a> </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304480 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:28:11 +0000 snarla 304480@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Is there a way I can find out how many visits a particular post has had. I mean, that isn't one of the top posts?<br /> What about how many people visit just because they have my site bookmarked and they check it periodically?<br /> Thanks </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304412 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:43:04 +0000 matt 304412@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>1. If you're not logged in we may count your own visits to your own blog.</p> <p>2. There are a lot of search engines out there.</p> <p>3. One is from your stats (referrers) and the other is from Google Blogsearch.</p> <p>4. So the page doesn't take too long to load, but no good reason other than that.</p> <p>5. Have you tried looking at Summary Tables? It's linked from "Blog Stats" box.</p> <p>6. A visit is a pageview. Better stats are on our roadmap.</p> <p>Pingbacks look that way because they grab the title of the page. No good reason other than that. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304315 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:40:49 +0000 davidderrick 304315@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>To Timethief -- Thanks. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304313 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:37:45 +0000 raincoaster 304313@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Ah, now I see, my apologies. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304312 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:36:49 +0000 davidderrick 304312@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Because you told me they were in the wrong place, Raincoaster. So I moved them! I don't "keep reposting" them and, incidentally, I can if I want to! But I appreciate these are more of a WP staff issue, but I thought others might have views.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304291 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:41:45 +0000 raincoaster 304291@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>Why do you keep reposting the same questions?</p> <p><a href="http://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/davidderrick" rel="nofollow">http://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/davidderrick</a> </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-304234 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:28:41 +0000 timethief 304234@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>I'm sorry but we volunteers in the forums can't provide answers to your stats questions. You will need to contact staff. <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/contact/" rel="nofollow">http://support.wordpress.com/contact/</a> </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/6-questions-about-stats#post-303714 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:50:05 +0000 davidderrick 303714@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>There are a bunch of things that don’t make sense about WordPress stats. Here they are. I’m sure I’m not getting it: maybe others can clarify.</p> <p>In no special order:</p> <p>1. WordPress says: “Just a note: we don’t count your own visits to your blog.” But they do, sometimes. Sometimes, I go back and edit an ancient post that nobody ever looks at. A couple of minutes later, there it appears on the list of visited posts. This doesn’t happen always, but it DOES happen occasionally. Why?</p> <p>2. How can some people possibly reach my blog via some of the words allegedly used as search terms? Somebody got to my blog by putting “Germany” into Google?</p> <p>3. “People clicked links from these pages to get to your blog.” In what way is that different from “Incoming links?” This is an obscure distinction and needs clarifying.</p> <p>4. Why have a daily “Top Posts &#38; Pages” list limited to 25? There is absolutely no reason why a complete list should not be offered each day. Some blogs get many visits to older posts.</p> <p>5. It’s nice to look at the monthly stats to get a sense of how your blog has grown right from the day it was launched. But why limit that record to 16 months? That means that to get a full historical chart of your blog you have to do your own spreadsheet? (I know you get a rather clumsy-looking summary under “Summary Tables” that does go back to the start.) There’s plenty of space on the screen to offer more than 16 months, but even if there weren’t, why couldn’t WordPress offer limitless horizontal scrolling? (Is there some reason why horizontal scrolling is little utilized on the web? We’re all supposed to think of scrolling in vertical terms.)</p> <p>6. Why don't we get a lot more information about who visitors are, where they are, and what is being measured and how? What counts as a visit? And one more point, not related to stats.</p> <p>Why do pingbacks look like this?</p> <p>Newer post « Blogname Says:</p> <p>This is confusing and ugly. Why not just a heading that says: “The following posts on Blogname link to this post”. Followed by a list of the posts. </p> http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-make-a-line-break-ie-hard-return-or-new-paragraph#post-181138 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:43:15 +0000 actinginla 181138@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <p>I have been trying to figure out how to add a space &lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; at the top of my image in the text widget, (with no title for the widget) for about 5 minutes...and found it here!</p> <p>I have stopped wasting time trying to figure things out, the answer is always here.</p> <p>Thank you so much for all your help "thesacredpath"!</p> <p>Webmonkey has a list of basic html codes that I printed and often refer to, very useful.<br /> <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/</a> </p>