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Just starting out? Some things you’ll want to think about.
Without a doubt the most popular post on this website is Blog Privacy and Subscribers, published in 2011, and it remains generally accurate about how Privacy works in spite of the many changes here on WordPress.com. Choosing your site's Privacy setting is no longer included as one of the first steps when signing up for a … Continue reading Blog Privacy and Subscribers-5 more things to know
You've signed up and created your very first WordPress.com website. Congrats, but now what? Two of the biggest challenges new users have when starting out on WordPress.com are choosing a theme and learning the basics of site set up. WordPress.com helps you select an initial theme based on the information you provide about what your … Continue reading Build Your WordPress.com Site-The Tutorials
With the upcoming Automattic Annual Get-together (Automattic being WordPress.com's parent company), many of the support options usually available to even those WordPress.com users with paid upgrades will be temporarily closed or minimized and support requests will be channeled to the Community Support forums for assistance. Yikes! Those of us who regularly volunteer in the Community … Continue reading Use the Support Search, Luke!
WordCamp Jerusalem took place this past Wednesday and welcomed a very nice turnout. I'll write more at length about the full conference a bit later. What I want to write about now is a not uncommon perception that I encountered during WordCamp. During one discussion about using WordPress to help change the world, I ventured to … Continue reading Just don’t mention the “c” word
https://twitter.com/Quillcards/status/298015292729225216 Not just the "how" but also the "why." Excellent advice. Planning is the key and this is true for WordPress.com bloggers as well.
More companies are making their way to WordPress.com to build their web presence either as a blog or as a full website (as long as e-commerce is not the primary function of the site). And what's not to like? On signing up and agreeing to the Terms of Service, a company gets a free or … Continue reading Doing Business on WordPress.com
