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.
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
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
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 you need it.
You can from now on download all free themes on wordpress.com. On theme’s page look for “Download [name] for your self-hosted WordPress site” link in sidebar, under “Stats & Info”. Konstantin Obenland announced that in a tweet today.
Your stats and subscribers are stored on WordPress.com, and associated to your site URL. The WordPress.com account used to connect Jetpack to WordPress.com doesn’t matter. If you disconnect Jetpack from WordPress.com and then reconnect with another WordPress.com account, all the data associated to that site URL will be back in your dashboard. You won’t lose … Read more
Nope, you only need it to activate. I use it on 4 sites with same account.
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more