Category Archives: WordPress.com

Hosting your image elsewhere for you blog?

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Here’s a question I had come my way.  “Can I embed my photos from Flickr in my WordPress site instead of uploading them to WordPress?” Yes, you sure can.  Here is why I wouldn’t do that. 1.  Having your own website and using WordPress is something you do so that you have total control over your web presence.  If you are embedding from an external site you are going to … Continue reading →

Moving from .com to .org

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Many people start up a blog with WordPress.com and then down the road discover they need additional functionality which is not available with the .com platform.  Moving their site to a self hosted .org site can be pretty intimidating and painful if you don’t know what you are doing. Actually – it can be pretty painful if you do know what you are doing. WordPress will now move your content … Continue reading →