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marcusspeh on "Adding Google Analytics"

marcusspeh — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:28:29 +0000

I have recently gone back from WordPress.org (self hosted WordPress software) to WordPress.com (http://marcusspeh.com), after self hosting for years. In all this time I've had Google analytics and I very rarely apart from the ego boost, did anything with that wealth of data. In my view, WordPress is well advised to stick with their decision, and I don't think it's bad marketing at all: folks who have commercial interests have no reason not to self host—the degrees of freedom available (and the work to be done accordingly) are simply immeasurably higher. In order to make the step from SiteMeter, StatCounter and other small-scale data aggregators traffic to the behemoth Google, you'll need to want to invest a lot more time than the average blogger is willing to do. And every minute that you poke through the data haystack is a minute that you're not spending on creating content: which arguably is why people come to you at all. And of lecture!

jonburke on "WordAds or Google Ads on My Blog"

jonburke — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:21:38 +0000

Can you please sign-up for an account here: http://wordads.co/signup/

cvindonesia on "WordAds or Google Ads on My Blog"

cvindonesia — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:55:30 +0000

can u share how to get ad-control in setting , thanks

yodaman5556 on "Reblogging posts"

yodaman5556 — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:58:38 +0000

@ardpete

I am not saying that he stole my work. I am saying "Why is does it credit both me and starscraper99?". The re-blogging feature is crediting me for my work, but the WordPress.com theme is crediting starscraper99. The re-blogging feature should over-rule the theme.

Sorry for the confusion.

ardpete on "Reblogging posts"

ardpete — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:52:58 +0000

He's not stealing other peoples work, he's not taking credit for it, he's showcasing it to people not already following your blog, do you know what Tumblr is? That whole place is built for reblogging other peoples posts, just to get the word out to others.

Starscraper99 is the username of the person that reblogged your post, it's not signifying he's written it, if he was stealing it, if he was he could just copy and paste your blog and make a new post and you'd never know.

If anything you should feel flattered that whoever starscraper99 is, found your work worthy to share with others.

yodaman5556 on "Reblogging posts"

yodaman5556 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:46:40 +0000

I have since emailed WordPress.com staff about this and they basically said that nothing really could be done about it.

littlerubberpellets on "Adding Google Analytics"

littlerubberpellets — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:49:51 +0000

There are Tumblr themes that allow you to just add the tracking code, and then the actual javascript isn't handled by the end user. Is it possible wp.com could slip in similar functionality?

I haven't been able to transfer from wp.com to my own hosted install yet because my theme here isn't available for hosted installs. But simple things like this are really making the service a pain to use.

yodaman5556 on "Reblogging posts"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:56:08 +0000

@raincoaster
I am pretty certain that it is just part of the theme because it doesn't look like it was added in.
The person who re-blogged my post has a blog called Land of Reblogs which is everyone else's work on his blog. It is quite sad to see someone that has to steal someone else's work because they can't be bothered writing their own...

davidcoallier on "Adding Google Analytics"

davidcoallier — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:14:17 +0000

I use cloudflare.com for my DNS hosting and they allow me to add a Google Analytics App (With my UA-XXXXXX) code.

Works fine with hosted wordpress.com sites.

raincoaster on "Reblogging posts"

raincoaster — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:21:22 +0000

A DMCA notice is what you send people who have stolen your words. If the person has actually added in the information that they wrote that stuff, you have a DMCA claim. If it's just the theme adding their "Posted by" then you don't; it's just a misleading thing from the software, an accident.

yodaman5556 on "Reblogging posts"

yodaman5556 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:04:01 +0000

@raincoaster
Yes, that is what I originally thought it was, because it looks like it. What is a DMCA notice? Sorry for asking, but I really don't actually know...

raincoaster on "Reblogging posts"

raincoaster — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:33:41 +0000

That is probably an automatic notice built into the theme which indicates who posted in on that blog, not who wrote it originally. If it isn't, then you have a case for misrepresentation and copyright violation, and you can lay a DMCA notice on them and force them to change that or take the post down.

yodaman5556 on "Reblogging posts"

yodaman5556 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:14:11 +0000

After I had published a new post on my blog, BrickExtra, someone reblogged it on their WordPress.com blog, Land of Reblogs-which is all just someone elses' posts. That's all fine, but when I looked on his blog to see whether the reblog credited me, I found that if i went to his home page, there was "Reblogged from BrickExtra" underneath the title, then I clicked on the post title and it took me to the page for the post. Underneath the title was: "by starscraper99" and then below that was "Reblogged from BrickExtra" when the post clearly wasn't published by starscraper99.
I have read this support article about reblogs, but what i still don't understand is why someone can come along and effectively copy and paste my post onto his blog. There is a benefit though, and that is that i get more coverage, But could someone at WordPress.com fix this flaw, because someone else is still crediting himself for all the work i did.

Basically, could someone get rid of the "by starscraper99" on the page for the post, so that people know that it was actually by me on my blog.

yodaman5556 on "Polldaddy poll not showing up on sidebar"

yodaman5556 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:12:34 +0000

I have just tried looking at it on a different computer and it looks fine. So maybe it was just my browser and/or computer???

thesacredpath on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

thesacredpath — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:35:35 +0000

You are welcome.

svends on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

svends — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:34:16 +0000

Thank you!

thesacredpath on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

thesacredpath — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:31:29 +0000

A while ago, because of a web big-wig being impersonated here on wordpress.com, wordpress made a change. If someone is trying to comment with an email address that is either tied to a wordpress.com account, or is tied to a gravatar account, they are going to have to log in to prove that email address is actually theirs. Impersonation on the web has been becoming more of an issue and that is part of the reason you are seeing virtually all places that allow comments requiring that you log in somehow or register with their site.

You can at settings > discussion disable the requirement for a name and email address, but those fields will still appear on the comment form and if they enter an email address associated with gravatar.com or an account here, they will STILL have to log in.

You can tell everyone, perhaps with a canned paragraph at the bottom of your posts to NOT enter an email address or name if you wish (after making the change at settings > discussion). Of course that means telling who said what will be difficult.

I'm afraid with the growing number of gutter dwellers on the web, things like this are going to be the norm from now on.

svends on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

svends — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:30:09 +0000

I found out something: people are able to comment, - so i was a bit wrong there - but only if they don't fill in their mailadress. If someone who is not logged in, gives a comment and adds his email, they are always asked to log in.

I find this a problem because most visitors who try to comment, will give up if they must log in, because they don't know they're not obligated to fill in the email...

svends on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

svends — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:22:54 +0000

Thank you for your assistance, but as I said, my settings are correct. I do understand what they mean. I have left them all open (except for 'allow people to comment'). right now, people can not comment on my posts if they are not logged in...

yodaman5556 on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:12:34 +0000

This WordPress.com Support article should help you:

http://www.en.support.wordpress.com/who-can-comment/

twistedt on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

twistedt — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:09:33 +0000

Dashboard, Settings, Discussion, Other Comment Settings, Un-check - "Users must be registered and logged in to comment"

yodaman5556 on "Adding Google Analytics"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:07:53 +0000

I now use Sitemeter, which provides free stats and information with just putting a widget on your WordPress.com blog.

yodaman5556 on "Polldaddy poll not showing up on sidebar"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:04:04 +0000

I have tried making the poll as narrow as possible and it still doesn't work. The narrowest i can make it is 150px, but i don't know how big my sidebar is though. I have put polls on my blog before and they have worked, so i don't know why it doesn't work now.

yodaman5556 on "Polldaddy poll not showing up on sidebar"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:59:30 +0000

I have created a Polldaddy poll and pasted the WordPress.com shortcode into a text widget on my sidebar, but all i see is the title of the widget and below it is nothing. I am using the Mystique theme.

svends on "viewers need to be logged in for commenting"

svends — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:55:54 +0000

My setting are correct: i want viewers to be able to comment without having to be logged in and even without having to give their mailadress. But still, anybody is asked to log in when trying to comment.
Does anyone have an idea what to do? Thank you.
(I try it in english because there aren't many reactions on the forum in my own language)

alnaba on "WordAds or Google Ads on My Blog"

alnaba — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:44:09 +0000

welcome

yodaman5556 on "Adding Google Analytics"

yodaman5556 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:29:17 +0000

Go here:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/10/02/visitor-tracking-on-wordpress-com-blogs/

timethief on "Adding Google Analytics"

timethief — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:17 +0000

Scroll down to "Vistor tracking" on this page http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/

hakanertr on "Adding Google Analytics"

hakanertr — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:43:35 +0000

Do you know any other solution to get professionnal analysis without javascript?

You can use Statcounter stats in free wordpress.com blog. Also, it's one of the best statistics site.

timethief on "Importing pictures from net or own computer"

timethief — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:35:48 +0000

Simply put how do I cut/paste pictures onto my blog?

The answer to your question is you can't cut/paste pictures from your own computer into your blog and have them display. The pictures have to be uploaded into the blog so they are on WordPress.com servers and yodaman5556 has provided links to relevant support documentation so you can accomplish that.