Comments on: Need WordPress.com Help – Ask Nicely

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:35:03 +0000

@ Barbara: I'm trying to figure out what you are asking, and don't forget that the WordPress Support Forums and WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, are the ideal places for you to find the answers you need. Home is a web standard link to get to the front page of a site (a blog is a website). Why would you want to get rid of it since it is expected to be there. That is the way to get back to the parent page of the site. You can replace the front page of a WordPress blog with a "static" Page by designating the front page in Settings > Reading > Front Page Displays if you want the traditional chronological view of the front page to be a specific Page on your blog. If you are on WordPress.com, that is the limit to the controls you have over the WordPress Theme. If you want more control over the design and content elements, you may want to get a self-hosted WordPress blog. Does that answer your question?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:57:57 +0000

Lorelle, I am completely new to blogging and am struggling to get up to speed fast enough to get our church site online. I have chosen to go down the WordPress road because of its interactivity. However, I need the time to get used to it and work out how it all works.Consequently, I have decided to do a mix and match version – with a traditional website as the main site and a blog in there for the comments bit. The problem is simple: when I link to the WordPress.com page that I have set up, I get a page that has that page and also ‘HOME’ page on the navbar. How do I get rid of ‘HOME’ page to just keep the one showing that I want and also, how can people get back to the parent website? I apologise if all this is not as clear as it should be but look forward to any help. Many thanks, Barbara

By: Does WordPress have sensitive support or not? | iScatterlings

Does WordPress have sensitive support or not? | iScatterlings — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:44:58 +0000

[...] Click here. [...]

By: Asking Questions-- Place of Stuff

Asking Questions-- Place of Stuff — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:45:37 +0000

[...] Fast forward again to 2006 and Lorelle has written an article on her blog dealing with much the same things on the WordPress.com forums. So what has changed? Answer: absolutely nothing. Despite technology moving on, despite search engines becoming better and indexing more and more pages, despite there being more and more people providing help to others on the internet, nothing at all has changed. Forum and message board and mailing list members still refuse to search, they still refuse to ask decent questions and give information on the problems they are having, they still blow up at people who are truing to help them and still, despite the fact it’s crap and old hat, they still troll and spam the boards. [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:30:04 +0000

Did you ask for help in the forums or check out the list of support options above? There you would find your answer.

In a nutshell, the content area is wider than the area alloted it. When you widen the sidebar, without narrowing the content area, they overlap. Depending upon your design layout, they will overlap or shove each other around. You lost in a shoving contest. Poke around at the structure to change the dimensions to make room for the content area.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:15:06 +0000

When I write a post it goes directly to the bottom of the page. I modified the sidebar and index files so I could have some amazon ads and what not. I tried uploading the old ones but its not really working. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

http://www.bcollectin.com/

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:03:26 +0000

You are welcome, timethief. You do know you can write them on your own blog and if you trackback or point me to them, I’ll do you a favor and point them out when I can. Don’t forget that you’ve become quite the expert on WordPress.com things, too.

By: timethief

timethief — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:30:28 +0000

Thanks so much for publishing this Lorelle. I have other tips I will submit to you when I have an opportunity to write them down.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:26:59 +0000

I am one of the moderators of LinuxQuestions (no link – that’d be crass ), and we have exactly the same problem. On any forum, people will always think that “help plz” or “problem” are suitable titles and then will get mad because their question gets ignored.

In the end all we can do, as long standing members, is to educate them and hope they get it eventually.

Or ban them

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:46:52 +0000

No typo. I believe there are one (or is it two? That’s why I put 98% not 99) paid staff now handling WordPress.com issues in the forums. And they were volunteers for a long time before becoming staff. They also have other tasks, so some of their time on the forum is their own, too. For instance, Podz is paid to help with WordPress.com, but he still volunteers on WordPress.org’s Support Forum.

There are now paid staff who work with WordPress and Automattic, and the number is growing. But currently, the majority of all technical and “customer service” support is FREE by FREELY working volunteers. We get nothing but your rare appreciation for what we do. We do it for the doing, not the reward.