PLEASE NOTE: Questions about wordpress.com use, account, setup, features, and support are off-topic for this site. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging service version that runs on the WordPress platform. It allows a limited number of plugins and themes, although one can pay to have more options.
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What is the Plural of WordPress?
I mean, for what I remember of my english classes it should be WordPress', or not?
Would this be a Meta Question?
Or a English Language & Usage one?
[update]
What I ended up writing (in an ...
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Formatting Code Snippets on Free WordPress.com Account?
I've got a WordPress blog on WordPress.com. When posting something I'm including some sample Java code in the <code tags, is there any way I can have this formatted better? Such as syntax ...
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Math notation on WordPress.com?
I am a new user with WordPress, and I would like to use mathematical formulas. I have been reading the mathjax pages for hours, such as this one and quite a few others. This may be a bad question, ...
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Things to take care when moving from hosted wordpress to self-hosting
I have a hosted free wordpress blog. Now I am thinking to move that blog to self-hosting.
What I already have /know/tried:
1: I have a domain name purchased from a companyA.
2: I have hosting ...
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Redirecting traffic from old “.WordPress.com” blog to privately hosted WordPress blog?
I've got a blog hosted on .wordpress.com, ie the free version.
I'm thinking of re-activating my hosting package so I can have my own WP installation, and therefore have more customisation options ...
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1answer
279 views
Can I integrate Google Analytics with my blog, hosted at wordpress.com?
I have a blog hosted at wordpress.com. How do I integrate it with Google Analytics?
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974 views
Moving WordPress.com theme and widget settings to self-hosted site?
Possible Duplicate:
Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted site and autoforward visitors?
How can I move theme and plugin (widget) settings from a WordPress.com site to a self-hosted ...
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1answer
246 views
What plugins are in use on wordpress.com
is there a list of plugins that are in use on WordPress.com somewhere?
It would be very interesting to see how they have implemented specific widgets and functionality.
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Can I use AdSense on a free wordpress blog?
Is it possible to use AdSense on a free .wordpress.com blog? I can't see any way of doing this in the configuration.
There are options to add text widgets etc, but nothing for adds?
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Import and export links from WordPress.com to private site
Is there some way to export/import links from a wordpress.com site to a private site? I have a rather large directory of links. I fetch the opml file and the category levels are there, but when I use ...
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2answers
802 views
Making the Post/Page Content Editor Box Bigger?
I'm having difficulty in creating a big post since the editor box is quite small. I want to make it bigger. Can I?
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How to search and replace text in all posts of a wordpress.com blog (NOT wordpress.org one)?
I have some texts that need to be replaced in every posts in my blog. Is it possible to do that?
ps
(I need to tag this question as search-and-replace but not enough reputation to do that. Please add ...
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2answers
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How can I install a plugin on a Wordpress.com hosted blog?
I used to have a self hosted wordpress blog but I switch to a wordpress.com one. I can't seem to find the plugins area.
Any help?
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2answers
991 views
Who owns the content posted on .wordpress.com blogs? [closed]
If I sign up for a Wordpress blog that is hosted for free by Wordpress here, who will own the content I post, and how much storage will I have? I know I could ask their customer support, but I don't ...
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1answer
104 views
Ads Restricted on WordPress.com?
I am creating a WordPress blog myself - downloading it and installing it myself - as well as buying a domain name and hosting it using something like simplynames.com.
I read somewhere though that you ...
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395 views
Getting Rid of the WordPress.com Toolbar on Other Sites?
I recently started a WordPress blog, and now I get an ajax-loaded toolbar showing up at the top of tonnes of pages. It's all links to my WordPress accounts and blogs and stuff. It's fine that it ...
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1answer
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Using WordPress publicize with main account and editor user accounts
I have a y.wordpress.com blog and I contribute to another x.wordpress.com under the role editor adding post contributions.The owner's account is set to publicize to Twitter any updates he/she makes.
...
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1answer
714 views
How to insert current date/time in the content of a post?
I'm making a list of suggestion here. I need to insert current date/time for each of my suggestions - they are added accumulatively.
If you have any idea on doing that, please share.
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How to know the theme name of a wordpress blog?
I visit http://ltty.wordpress.com/ and want to know the theme name (so that I can use :) for my blog). How can I get it?
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WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
This question might seem a little silly but I was wondering what is the differences between WP.com and WP.org?
I know the main differences like you can't edit a them file without paying for it, you ...
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Creating external apps Wordpress / How they work
I was wondering how does external app works for wordpress.com or wordpress.org.
Directly connecting to the wordpress database seems a bad idea to me.
Questions
How can I create an app or get / ...
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1answer
233 views
Post-by-mail similar to WordPress.com or Posterous?
A standard WordPress installation has very basic support for posting via e-mail. Is there a plugin that gives the same functionality as WordPress.com (especially attachment handling)?
My client is in ...
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4answers
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How can I transfer followers from Wordpress.com to a self-hosted Wordpress?
Recently, I performed a domain migration from a wordpress.com domain to a self-hosted solution. The primary complaint was the loss of followers gained through Wordpress ( ...
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Prerequisites Skills to learn WordPress
I'm new to WordPress and I was going through skills sets on some of the projects that are to be built in WordPress. The prerequisties that were mentioned are listed as below:
HTML (obvious)
CSS ...
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Widget code is not working on WordPress.com Hosted Blogs
I have developed a JavaScript widget which works fine when I embed it in any of my html pages. The code is something like this
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
var asset_host = ...
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how to implement a site like this in wordpress?
I want to develop a site like
http://www.webpresent.biz/
Should I develop in wordpress?
How much effort is required?
Plugins available?
Help would be appreciated.
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1answer
84 views
Is there any way I can put google ads on wordpress.com?
I know they do not allow plugins on wordpress.com and hence no ads. I know I can put adds on own wordpress site hosted on my own domain. But I really like wordpress.com and the ease you can create ...
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2answers
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How much effort to migrate from .com to .org
I am launching an education and awareness site on Federal budget. Obviously less effort to use .com and can get going faster -- but would like characterization of effort required to migrate later to ...
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Wordpress WP_Query() Not working properly
We would like to know that how we occur error when we implement this code in our sidebar.php
$categories = get_categories();
foreach($categories as $category)
{
...
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1answer
531 views
Blog in multiple languages on WordPress.com?
Does wordpress.com support multiple languages at the same time? I know it does support changing the main language, but I can't find anything about how one would go about setting up multiple languages ...
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1answer
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Can I move to wordpress.org and continue to be included as a wordpress.com favorite blog?
I'm listed as a wordpress.com favorite blog. If I move over to wordpress.org, will I continue to be listed as a favorite with wordpress.com?
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1answer
47 views
How to get the deleted category id?
I want to do some action at the time of deleting a category using that category id. Is it possible to get the category id?
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331 views
Adding set of custom fields to Wordpress Post in Dashboard
I am working on a WordPress site and while creating a new posts we have certain number of custom attributes which are always part of the post, as of now we need to manually add those all custom fields ...
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1answer
691 views
Reblog wordpress.com posts on self hosted
I'm currently collaborating to a wordress.com blog and would like to use the reblog feature to mirror my posts there to my main blog that is a self hosted wordpress installation.
My understanding is ...
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If I backup my wordpress blog, how can I back-up all the external images I've embedded?
As in - some of the images I've uploaded - like the ones at http://astroclimatology.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/interesting-dif-between-surface-temperature-and-p850-temperature/ - use images from a ...
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1answer
161 views
CSS/JS files in WordPress
In web development, I get used to place css/js files under separate folders (css folder, js folder ..etc).
What I am experiencing in WordPress is that I cannot access these folders in WordPress Admin ...
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1answer
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image in my post disappeared after I upload website to remote server
Before I upload my website to server, I created post with images which are uploaded to media, their url are, for example: http://localhost:40952/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/study_in-En.gif
After I ...
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1answer
230 views
What's a good RSS Importer?
I'm looking for a good RSS importer to use on my WordPress installation. The current one isn't importing images properly, and I don't want to fix it.
It needs to be an automated importer. Where I ...
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1answer
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in
After installing this videozoom theme i'm getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in /home/moviesa1/public_html/test99 dot ...
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1answer
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Can't sort Posts in wordpress Dashbaord
I'm using WordPress 3.1., and I can't sort the posts in the Dashboard/admin area by date or post title.
Edit: i just noticed it only happens with this theme im using, how could this be fixed?
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“table of contents” text widget for WordPress.com
I have searched online for a "table of contents" generator for WordPress.com but in vain. I can find plugins for WordPress.org. I am looking for WordPress.com. Is there any text widget that creates a ...
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1answer
179 views
How to change the language of a wordpress.com blog?
I'm using my wordpress.com blog (not wordpress.org) and want to change the language of the blog. How can I do this?
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1answer
337 views
“Connect” my personal website to wordpress.com
I used to have a blog on wordpress.com, now I've created my own site (using wordpress of course), on a privately hosted domain. I used to have a lot more traffic hitting my blog on wordpress.com than ...
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Is there an alternative to [sourcecode] tags to add code samples on a wordpress.com blog? [closed]
I have a programming blog on Wordpress.com that uses [sourcecode] tags for the syntax highlighting, however I got a comment from someone saying the scrollbars don't appear on an iPad. I've also ...
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1answer
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Make tag links point to global wordpress.com pages [closed]
Is there a way to make those „tags” links under each post to point to global tag pages (http://pl.wordpress.com/tag/blah/) instead of the blog-local pages (http://blogname.wordpress.com/tag/blah/)?
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Mapping multiple URLs to same page in wordpress
I just came across this page with almost similar requirements as mine
Multiple endpoints to same page
i have to achieve same functionality but i also want to pass some parameters to the page where ...
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Setting up wordpress on a hosting server for the first time
I'm moving a wordpress CMS installation from one host to another. Pretty straightforward I think. I have moved applications running on a Tomcat server but not wordpress. Is the following correct -
...
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How to totally get rid of Category in my blog?
I prefer using tags and have no interest in using the categories. All my posts now are labeled with a category named "Uncategorized" and I want to turn them off! I want no more categories at all. How ...
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Is it possible to use wordpress.com with a custom domain without switching nameservers?
I want to move my blog to wordpress.com but I do run my own nameservers and I need to do it. Is it possible to use wordpress.com pointing the IPs of the hostname to it but not switching the ...
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Does wordpress.com appears in the URL if I buy custom domain service from WP.com
Let's say I buy a custom domain myblog.com and I host at wordpress... if I access the dashboard page on my blog, will it have wordpress.com in the URL?
I want to be able to manage my blog behind ...
