Bloggers could indicate organizations, on a configuration page, by means of web service URL's. A web service function response could include organizational metadata for blogging platforms' user interfaces. Then, per article, bloggers could indicate which organizations that each blog article is pertinent to. Organizations could then receive pings for article events, from numerous bloggers, and link to or present the blog articles from numerous bloggers on their websites.

A use case is consumer advocacy. Consumer advocacy groups, e.g. the Better Business Bureau, can each independently spider and index blog articles and tweets, where blog articles and tweets can have keywords or folksonomic tags, e.g. "bbb" or "#bbb", and can each utilize that data and make that data available on their websites. With the described feature of indicating organizations to ping, per article, consumers', parents', teachers', and scholars' commentary, feedback, and opinion, about digital textbooks and curriculum, for example, could be specifically routed, as indicated by each blogger, empowering bloggers and adding value to numerous organizations' websites including those of consumer advocacy groups, teachers' and education-related organizations.

In addition to the use of hyperlinks for indicating discussed items, for example opening digital textbooks to specific pages and object configurations (http://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html, http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/), some bloggers might want to also utilize hypertext quotes or multimedia clips in their blog articles during fair use scenarios.

The new blogging platform feature of pinging one or more organizations as indicated per article could additionally benefit scholarly and scientific communication. Scholars and scientists with blogs could utilize the new feature to indicate which scholarly and scientific organizations to ping for specific blog articles. The blog articles of many scholars and scientists could then be linked to or appear on a number of scholarly and scientific organizations' websites for Web users to discover, read, and interact with.

Kind regards,

Adam Sobieski

http://phoster.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/digital-textbooks-and-curriculum/

Yours,
Monica

There is no upgrade you can purchase form WordPress.com that changes what I posted above. However, there are no eCommerce restrictions if you hire a web host and set up your own self hosted WordPress.org install. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

Could you please tell me if I could create an online shop using a free platform from WordPress ? If so, what should I use ?

Thank you !

Monica

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Well, I put a little too much:) but I think some great, if you put at least some, like the Ghostwriter I'd be happier.
Hope you enjoy and would like to include it as a theme.
Thank you

It's a simple looking theme with amazing customization options.

I may expand my reviews to other platforms soon, such as DS games, PS2/3 games, etc.

But one question though: Why don't they add those Sandbox skins into the Theme list ? There aren't many people know the existence of these skins, me as an example.

The Add Buddy thing is currently active on BuddyPress, which is owned by and works just like WordPress.

I mean, guys, you guys gave us a dashboard system and blogging tools that surpass any other blogging site out there imo, and I appreciate that. The only thing missing here is the "look". (btw, if we have the function to add buddy then it would be nice) That's why wordpress.com is still a bit underrated.

I feel that we need a theme design contest for wordpress.com as I believe that there're a lot of talented designers among us.

If this sort of site is possible and going to be made, this can be a good structure, I guess?

User creates theme > Uploads into the system > Moderators (Volunteers/Staff) check for errors/malware/viruses/other crap > when there's no such thing, its approved, or not, reject > theme appears in platform for all to download/apply into blog immediately ('Activate')

Unfortunately a bunch of people like to hide malicious code in themes. That's why the official theme directory has an approval process, and why we recommend against downloading themes from untrusted sources. Some of the theme download sites are run by the bad guys.

Why not consider having a theme sharing platform for WP Users? The main idea is: People can just browse through user-uploaded content (which, maybe, has to go through some sort of WordPress QC) and then apply it for use in blogs everywhere in WP (.com/.org applicable)

To detractors: I know there's one right here at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/, but it only allows users to download approved WP themes. But the main difference in my idea is a platform for people to get more themes, that people who don't pay can use.