How do I disable trackback notifications on a WordPress.com blog?
Go to your site’s dashboard. Then navigate to Settings » Discussion and disable the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” option:
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Prevent images on self-hosted WordPress from being served from WordPress.com
Photon is the part of jetpack that uploads your images to wordpress.com so they can be served from their CDN. You can turn it off here: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules&module_tag=Photos%20and%20Videos
Post-by-mail similar to WordPress.com or Posterous?
Try Postie. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/ It has lots of features (including handling attachments and inline images)
Feature Differences between WordPress.com and Hosting on your Own Server?
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 … Read more
How can I transfer followers from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress?
Self-hosted blogs use RSS for subscriptions. As far as “liking” goes, that only makes sense within the quasi-social-network environment of WordPress.com.
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
WordPress.com is web service. WordPress.org is software product. Think bus vs car. You can ride both, but bus is owned by someone else and what you can do with it is limited.
How to import only certain comments from post[s]
How to import only certain comments from post[s]
Redirect all blog links from WordPress.com site to new domain
You could use Site Redirect from WordPress.com (https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/) to achieve this. While this is a paid for service, it is relatively cheap and you will likely only need to pay once. Nice site, and as redirects are essential for SEO, it is well worth the effort and small cost to get this right.
API for Post Stats for Self-Hosted WordPress using JetPack [closed]
There is indeed a Stats API that will allow you to access stats from a WordPress.com or a Jetpack site. You can read more about it here: http://stats.wordpress.com/csv.php http://phoxis.org/2011/04/24/wordpress-com-stats-api/ http://wpgr.org/2013/03/02/rendering-jetpack-stats/ Jetpack uses this API to populate the Top Posts widget: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jetpack/tags/2.5/modules/widgets/top-posts.php#L223
What plugins are in use on wordpress.com [closed]
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