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WordPress is a singular without plural. A second instance would be a fork that could not use the same name, because the name WordPress is a trademark of the WordPress Foundation.
Like Jesus, just more rules.
If WordPress had a plural it would be WordPresses, like in mess or mistress. But the prerequisite for that would be that WordPress becomes either a ...
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This method isn't always fireproof, but you can often look at the source code (right click on white space in the blog), and look for the word "themes." For instance, in the case of ltty.wordpress.com, this line appears:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://s2.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/inove/style.css?m=1285721595g" type="text/css" media="screen" />
...
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You have a couple of options. First, you can always click on the bottom right corner of the post edit box and drag to resize:
However, you can also make it so that the post box is larger by default. Go to Settings > Writing, and change the value for size of the post box:
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wordpress.com supports code syntax-highliting.
You can read all about it here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/
for your specific example use:
[sourcecode language="java"]
package com.jameselsey.domain;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import com.google.android.maps.GeoPoint;
import android.app.Application;
/**
...
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Hate to play grammar police here; but using the plural form of WordPress in the example you've given is incorrect.
The correct form would be `...WordPress projects...' not '...WordPresses projects...'
After all you deal with a couple of WordPress projects, not WordPresses projects.
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You can't disable categories altogether, but you can prevent WP from displaying them:
in the post editor screen within the admin interface, use screen options to hide the category picker.
in your theme, remove category-related lines.
This won't, technically, disable everything category-related from showing (WP may still output, say, category RSS feeds ...
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This is irrelevant if you're self-hosting your site.
WordPress.com is a free hosting site run by the company Automattic. Since it's run by a private company, they set the rules and restrict advertising.
WordPress.org is the homepage of the open source project called WordPress. You can download WordPress from this site and install it on your own server. ...
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Yes you can. It's [code] *your code here* [/code] and you can even hint the language: [code lang="php"]<?php echo 'test'; ?>[/code].
This is the method I prefer (quick to write). There seem to be other ways as the following resource explains: Support: Code » Posting Source Code (wordpress.com)
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From the TOS:
By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove ...
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First off, check if the theme is available in wordpress.org themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
If it's not, find the name of the theme developer and contact them. Many developers of wordpress.com themes are happy for people to use their themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. The developer's name and contact details can be found by looking at ...
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Animated gifs will not be animated when resized. I see that you're using the full sized image, but there are parameters added to the src attribute (probably due to some plugin or your theme):
From the source:
<img class="size-full wp-image-4604" title="Koch snoflake progression" alt="" ...
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Not an easy question to answer. That stuff is mostly private and they seem to use greatly modified versions of some public plugins.
wordpresscom tag in repository has several.
Also see this topic for more ideas and places to check List of plugins used on WordPress.com
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WordPress features a very rich XML-RPC interface that you can work with from external applications. It provides you access to most of the functionality you'd have directly in the admin - write posts, edit posts, edit comments, create/edit categories, manage site options, upload files, etc.
As a matter of fact, certain third-party applications are already ...
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Hi @Nam Gi VU:
I'm pretty sure that's not possible directly.
What you could do would be to export all posts to a text file, use a search and replace in a text editor and then import them back in deleting all the posts before you reimport them. Be careful to change a copy of the export in case your search and replace corrupts the file and makes it fail to ...
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Should I host on my Linux hosting account or Windows Hosting Account?
Is there any pro/cons one over other?
It's a matter of preference and know-how. Choose one you find easier working on. If you are new to both, I'd suggest going with Linux — as most tutorials and docs on the web assume that you are on a Linux box. You can't go wrong with either, and ...
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You are probably looking for Jetpack comments system. If so, you can install Jetpack plugin and then activate the Comments module, if it is not activated by default upon plugin activation. After plugin installation, you may also need to connect to your WordPress.com account to enable any (or all) Jetpack features as indicated in the installation ...
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If you don't want to redirect your users from example.com to example.wordpress.com, but really want example.com to be new domain name for your WordPress.com blog, you can buy Domain Mapping for $12 per year if you already have your own domain.
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Hi @Nam Gi VU:
In general, this is not really a WordPress question. I'll answer it because I tend to be lenient about how related questions need to be but there's a good change another moderator will close the question and if they do I'll agree.
Basically since WordPress.com does not provide this feature you need to use a 3rd party service that will read ...
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Didn't try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation:
How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )
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WordPress.com does not allow you to post javascript.
From WordPress.com Support:
Users are not allowed to post JavaScript on WordPress.com blogs. JavaScript can be used for malicious purposes. As an example, JavaScript has taken down sites such as MySpace.com and LiveJournal offline in the past. The security of all the blogs is a top priority and until ...
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The article you linked to covers everything you need to know. I will just clarify what you do not understand and what is outdated.
Site Redirect
The domain mapping is done through wordpress.com to do a 301 direct, which tells search engines that you have moved permanently to a new address. It is outdated now and superseded with the site redirect upgrade ...
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Colloquially, this is definitely meta, but whether it is in stackexchange technical terms, I don't have an opinion on.
As for the actual question, I'd say it's "WordPresses".
I have never given this consideration when it comes to WordPress, but if you'd check "press (noun)" in a dictionary, it should give you "presses" as a plural. And if that's the case, ...
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If you're going from WP to WP, then you want to use the built-in exporter and importer. Your links should come along with it. I'm not sure about the categories with it, but this might help http://ellejohara.com/blog/making-the-wordpress-opml-tool-slightly-more-useful/
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Adsense relies on Javascript and you can not use Javascript on a free wordpress.com blog. So you can not use Adsense. Next to that, delivering adds is something that wordpress.com reserves on it's own to do, so what you want to do might conflict with their terms of service as well.
As for any wordpress.com related question, please pose that question to ...
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No, wordpress.com does not support multilanguage blogs. The solution would be to make one blog per language and link them via the sidebar.
Reference: Multi-language blog on wordpress.com
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This is WordPress .com blog - running on provided service. It has no installable themes but choice from number of themes, provided by service. I can't find official list of themes available there so no idea if there is version for self-hosted blogs available.
For self-hosted version of WordPress (commonly referred to as .org) you can usually find theme name ...
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Add the following code to your user stylesheet:
#wpcombar
{
height: 2px !important;
overflow: hidden !important;
}
#wpcombar:hover,
#wpcombar:focus
{
height: 28px !important;
}
This will shrink down the toolbar to a 2px line. You may use display:none to remove it completely, but then it will not be accessible when ...
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WordPress.com is running the same code that you can download for free at WordPress.org ... the biggest difference is that .com is run by a for-profit company and .org is maintained by a non-profit community.
WordPress.com, as a for-profit enterprise, has certain features disabled (for security purposes) and certain features limited so that users can buy in ...
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You have at least three different ways:
1) Edit directly in the database. The content of the post is stored in post_content column of wp_posts table. Since you are running your own WordPress, you should have full access to that. Just use SQL to do search and replace. Remember, the table content is sort-of HTML, so may have tags and/or escaped characters
2) ...
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Wordpress.com is a hosted blogging service based, of course, on Wordpress. You can register and open your blog, choosing from a variety of themes. It's running the latest version of WordPress.
Wordpress.org is the site where you can download WordPress, themes and plugins and install it in your own server.
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