WordPress.com Forums » Tag: .com - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/com-1 WordPress.com Forums » Tag: .com - Recent Posts en Thu, 23 May 2013 21:45:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thesacredpath on "Going from .org to .com" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/going-from-org-to-com#post-544957 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:04:10 +0000 thesacredpath 544957@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, first off, lustrass.com IS lustrass.wordpress.com with the domain mapping. When you get your account at the new web hosting company set up, you will go into your domain management here and point the nameservers at the new web host. They will give you the DNS information. It will take about 24-72 hours for the DNS change to propagate through all the nameservers on the internet although typically it happens in 24 or less. Once you point the nameservers at the new host and disable the domain mapping here, your existing blog here will revert back to lustrass.wordpress.com and will still be intact.

After the domain has stabilized, you can install wordpress at the web host and then transfer your stuff over to the new blog.

One note on themes and plugins: KNOW your source. There is a growing number of places that are taking standard themes and plugins and inserting malware and virus's into them.

Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware.

]]> monastyling on "Going from .org to .com" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/going-from-org-to-com#post-544948 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:17:24 +0000 monastyling 544948@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have a complicated question and I'm going to try my best to explain it cuz I need answers:
- I started a blog in wordpress.com called lustrass.wordpress.com
- I found out it's cheap to map a domain through WordPress to I upgraded to lustrass.com
- I studided wordpress and found out how cool the plugins were, so I decided to self host my blog:
- I downloaded wordpress.org on my local machine
- Went to my old wordpress.com site and using tools I was able to export the content of my old blog, to the newly hosted one.
Question: Since I don't want to lose lustrass.com which is hosted on wordpress.com, how do I transfer my wodpress.org hosted on my pc to the other blog?

]]> thesacredpath on "Transfer from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-from-com-to-org-for-the-use-of-plugins#post-522924 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:18:32 +0000 thesacredpath 522924@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ During the import process you are asked if you want to bring over attachments and as I remember you click a button. I don't know if "unattached" files come over or not.

]]> auxclass on "Transfer from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-from-com-to-org-for-the-use-of-plugins#post-522907 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:50:39 +0000 auxclass 522907@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Your pictures and attachments (pdf files for instance) should also transfer - read the find print on Export and Import - the last site I moved the files came along - a couple of glitches but went well - double check the transfer to make sure everything worked before you delete anything

]]> beforethecoffee on "Transfer from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-from-com-to-org-for-the-use-of-plugins#post-522906 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:45:32 +0000 beforethecoffee 522906@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ hi thesacredpath, is it possible to transfer image files in the move. From the support article it says:

"2. In the new blog, go to Tools → Import → WordPress and upload the file you downloaded in step 1. Make sure that you choose the option to Download & import file attachments."

]]> thesacredpath on "Transfer from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-from-com-to-org-for-the-use-of-plugins#post-516766 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:49:41 +0000 thesacredpath 516766@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This will get you started.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

]]> speedexposure on "Transfer from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfer-from-com-to-org-for-the-use-of-plugins#post-516727 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:09:21 +0000 speedexposure 516727@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How can i transfer my blog from .COM to .ORG for the use of plugins. I'm sorry if this has been posted already but I am at work on my phone and it's tough to check the whole forum

]]> timethief on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475311 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:28:17 +0000 timethief 475311@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmmm ... I published a post on this very same topic Self Hosting: What's Your Hurry?

]]> christiangrblr on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475306 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:20:45 +0000 christiangrblr 475306@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks a lot guys I gave it a lot of thought and I am staying. It just seems to overwhelming to me right now. I am new and after the second day I already did the mapping and domain registration. I mainly love the forums here they are great to share things. Thanks a lot!!!

]]> raincoaster on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475292 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:53:20 +0000 raincoaster 475292@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When you say you want plugins, are you saying you want to play with code? Or are you saying "I want certain functions on my blog and as far as I know they're only available via plugins?" Because those are two DIFFERENT things. We have a lot of people saying they want to leave to use All In One SEO, but if you do, the SEO you have is actually LESS than you have by staying here.

]]> pornstarbabylon on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475291 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:51:32 +0000 pornstarbabylon 475291@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If someone doesn't like the look of the page, tell them to mind their own business! It's your blog. What you like is what's important.

Do you know how to self-host and handle everything when it goes wrong? Or do you have the money to pay someone to handle all the technical problems when the site WILL crash? A person should only move to make money. But a person should first have the blog traffic first to even justifying running ads or the more important seeking sponsors. Several thousand hits a day+.

]]> raincoaster on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475289 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:50:00 +0000 raincoaster 475289@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Unless you're getting over 50,000 views per month, and can afford $600 for setup and $600 per month, forget WordPress.com VIP.

]]> phoxis on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475273 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:48:08 +0000 phoxis 475273@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It is better to map the domain to wordpress.com than moving to wordpress.org. Private hosting might prove tpo be difficult as you need to do all the administration, and management. And you are getting 60 pageviews which is not enough to go for a wordpress.com VIP blog. You need to have a lot lot lot more page views per day for example like 5k page views or more. wordpress.com vip costs a lot and you need that much traffic. Give the time to stabilize, you have just started, create more content. In my opinion wordpress.com has very good collection of plugins to make a good blog. Also the you wordpress.com has a good range of themes.
I dont see any cause to move to private hosting at this moment, and and i dont see absolutely any cause to move to wordpress.com VIP blogs.
Let a year pass and see your traffic trent and the readership. If you have e domain and you have enough budget to map the domain (10$ appx) then i would tell you to map now. I have experienced some fall in traffic after mapping the domain. Previously i have some 150 to 180 page views, now it is 100 or below. Better map it now.

Probably other volunteers could provide you with a better suggestion .

]]> christiangrblr on "what should I do??" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-should-i-do#post-475249 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:28:59 +0000 christiangrblr 475249@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you think I should do it?
Hi my name is Christian, the creator of tehbigwebtheory.com
I am currently using the free hosting supplied with wordpress.com and a domain name I bought of godaddy.com . I want to move to wordpress.org because I have been getting a lot comments about the look of the page, I also want the plugins supplied with .org . I write high quality content daily and after a week I am at about 60 page views daily. I am very motivated to continue with this blog until I have absolutely nothing more to write about. Which probably wont happen. I have a pretty good niche and am still trying to find my voice. Some say they like the informal writing style and some don't. I want to get a little bit more formal and clean up the website. All I want is for you to tell me do you think I should wait for the possibility of becoming a VIP on wordpress.com before I can finally add the things I want or do you think I should convert to .org . Note I have no training in things like DNS and FTP but if any of you can suggest good tutorials that would be appreciated. I am till scared to take the plunge into the unknown but also want my blog to be a success thanks for reading tell me what you think!

]]> leoahrens on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472188 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:11:07 +0000 leoahrens 472188@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Got it! Thanks for the help!

Support Staff Response
Dear Leo,

Thank you for contacting Online Support. You can upload and test this and view your site via preview dns but it will not be live till you change the nameserves to ours.

Preview DNS lets you test your website prior to launch to ensure it displays and behaves properly on our hosting servers before modifying your domain's DNS record. This is beneficial when you are setting up a website for a domain that is currently active, either in your account or with another hosting provider.

When you enable Preview DNS, a subdomain is created on our server that temporarily houses your website. If Preview DNS is applied to http://www.coolexample.com, the preview URL is http://www.coolexample.com.previewdns.com.

NOTE: If you have multiple domains on your hosting account, preview them using http://www.coolexample.com.previewdns.com/path where path is the folder for your other domain.

Any internal links in the code are translated to point to the Preview DNS site. This process ensures that all paths can be tested appropriately prior to pointing your DNS record to our hosting servers.

NOTE: Some features such as Flash® and JavaScript do not work with Preview DNS.

To Enable Preview DNS or Preview Your Site

Log in to your Account Manager.

In the My Products section, select Hosting.

Next to the appropriate hosting account, click Manage Account.

In the Account Summary panel, click View to display your primary domain's DNS information.

If Preview DNS is not already enabled for your account, click Enable. If it has expired, click Renew.

If Preview DNS is enabled, click Preview my site.

NOTE: Preview DNS expires after 14 days but may be reactivated at any time.

To Make Your Site Live

Next to Primary Domain DNS, click View, and then click Make this site live.

NOTE: If your domain's DNS record is not under our control, you will not see the Make this site live button. You must manually update your A record with your hosting account's IP address for your site to publish to the Web.

Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.

Sincerely,
Ben P.
Online Support Team

Customer Inquiry
Name : Leo Ahrens
Phone : 8016498253
Domain Name : LeoAhrens.com
ShopperID : 26774498
Shopper Validated : Yes
Browser : IE Version : 8.0
Other : wordpress.com
Issue : Hi Godaddy,

Ok so I have my wordpress.com blog right now, Leopahrens.wordpress.com. I also
have a domain name LeoAhrens.com that is used for my blog. I recently
decided to pay for a couple months of web hosting on GoDaddy.com to
try wordpress.org out and see if it worth paying extra money for. So I
want to be able to work on a .org website but I don't want to get rid
of my wp.com site until I'm positive I want to pay the extra. Idealy I
want to make my .org site while my .com site is up and running under
my domain name, then switch when the site is ready. Is there any way I can do that?

Basically my question is; Is there anyway I can set up a wordpress.org
blog while using my domain name (leoahrens.com) for my .com site? I
can't afford to buy another domain and I don't want to have my website
go offline for the time it takes to make my new site.

Thanks
-Leo

]]> thesacredpath on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472030 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:51:39 +0000 thesacredpath 472030@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, what you wrote here would be fine. I think they will get the idea.

]]> leoahrens on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472028 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:39:41 +0000 leoahrens 472028@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you think I should just send them what I wrote here? Was this understandable enough?

]]> thesacredpath on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472024 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:34:12 +0000 thesacredpath 472024@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The thing is, you could switch the domain name over to the .ORG site, and then make your blog here at .COM a subdomain of that domain using CNAME, but that would break all the links to your blog here on the search engines and such. You could set up a redirect possibly at your new web host, but that can get messy sometimes.

Perhaps send a message directly to staff here and see what they say: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ .

]]> leoahrens on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472023 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:27:34 +0000 leoahrens 472023@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry I had the title backwards!!! It should say .com to .org switch!!!

]]> leoahrens on ".org to .com switch. Need Help!!!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/org-to-com-switch-need-help#post-472022 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:25:39 +0000 leoahrens 472022@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ok so I have my .com blog right now, Leopahrens.wordpress.com. I also have a domain name LeoAhrens.com that is used for my blog. I recently decided to pay for a couple months of web hosting on GoDaddy.com to try wordpress.org out and see if it worth paying extra money for. So I want to be able to work on a .org website but I don't want to get rid of my .com site until I'm positive I want to pay the extra. Idealy I want to make my .org site while my .com site is up and running under my domain name.

Basically my question is; Is there anyway I can set up a wordpress.org blog without using my domain name (leoahrens.com) for my .com site? I can't afford to buy another domain and I don't want to have my website go offline for the time it takes to make my new site. Also if I took the domain name (leoahrens.com) off the .com site would I be able to use it again on the .com site without paying the hosting fee?

Sorry for how comfusing this is. I'm hoping someone can figure out what I'm talking about though.

-Leo

]]> timethief on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453586 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:27:04 +0000 timethief 453586@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's a no go. We cannot access the template files, let alone, edit our templates at wordpress.com as tis is a shared blogging environment. We are all working on a multiuser blogging platform and that means that very blog "wearing" the same theme is, in essence, using the same template. Consequently, only Staff can access and edit those templates because whatever changes they make will be evident in all blogs "wearing" the same theme.

As I have both wordpress.com blogs and a wordpress.org install I can tell you right now that you are not going to find an of-the-rack ready to go wordpress.org theme that's coded to include two images in the Title line (a text field) of any theme. If you hire a coder then you may be able to get what you want, but I guarantee that search engine spiders are not going to be expecting to find images in what is a text field and what is in fact THE most important link in your entire blog. IMO mucking about with THE most important URL in your entire blog and risking search spider confusion when they discover images in a text filed is an ill thought out plan. Why don't run that "idea" by Matt Cutts of Google and see what he has to say about what the search spider response would be and what consequences may ensue?

]]> raincoaster on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453585 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:26:41 +0000 raincoaster 453585@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, I see what you mean. Like I said, the solution is to learn CSS and then buy the upgrade and make the change. Even if you were at WordPress.org you'd have to make the change to the CSS yourself anyway; that's how it's done.

]]> powerofperspective on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453579 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:23:38 +0000 powerofperspective 453579@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ok, so when i say title bar, i may be using the wrong term.

What i mean is the coloured bar at the top of the page above the image, where it says in my blog:
Power of Perspective
Empathy-Centred Life Fulfilment Coaching with Laurence Davies

Sorry for lack of terminology and posting confusion!

]]> timethief on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453578 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:06 +0000 timethief 453578@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ lol ... not to worry

I believe you mean a favicon AKA blavatar and that is possible. See the link I posted above.

]]> powerofperspective on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453576 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:18:57 +0000 powerofperspective 453576@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Holy shise

I thought my last post got lost.

*embaressment*

]]> powerofperspective on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453575 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:18:07 +0000 powerofperspective 453575@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Fair comment

What i want to do is put two images in the title bar above the header image, where the blog title is. A logo and a picture of me.

It would certainly be far better a solution for me if it were possible to do that on wp.com
I focused my question towards transfering to wp.org because my understanding is that it just isn't possible to put images into that title bar.

If anyone knows different, I would love to know!

]]> timethief on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453571 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:13:22 +0000 timethief 453571@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The title bar is where the URL for your blog goes. This link is THE most important link in the entire blog. Why you would want to inject 2 images into that URL is beyond me.

Perhaps what you really mean is you want a favicon/blavatar > to appear in the upper browser bar just before the http://
If that's the case then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/

]]> raincoaster on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453568 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:05:04 +0000 raincoaster 453568@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The title bar is for text. If you already knew CSS well and bought the paid upgrade, you could probably do this, but not if you don't already know your CSS and have the upgrade.

Do NOT buy it if you don't already know CSS, because you're on your own with it. We've had a rash of people saying "I bought the upgrade to change this one thing, now what do I do?" and basically, their option is to wait an indeterminate amount of time till one of the two bloggers who knows CSS here answers or to go to Google.

Also, my two cents: that would look REALLY messy.

]]> timethief on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453565 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:56:14 +0000 timethief 453565@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, you cannot place images in the title bar. Do you mind me asking why you want to do that?

]]> powerofperspective on "Transfering to wp.org but keeping the domain" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/transfering-to-wporg-but-keeping-the-domain#post-453548 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:31:31 +0000 powerofperspective 453548@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Fair comment

What i want to do is put two images into the title bar; a logo and a mug shot of my face

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