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
The easiest way to do this without losing your traffic is to use the WordPress.com Site Redirect. It keeps the yourblog.wordpress.com address active and points traffic to your new yourblog.com domain. You would be essentially paying the registration fee for your old domain at $12.00/year. Periodically through this process you should be informing your readers … Read more
She could install a plugin like DJ Email Publish on her self-hosted blog. This will republish any post she creates to any blog that accepts e-mail posts. This will allow her to write a post using any method she chooses on the self-hosted blog, and it will reappear on her WordPress.com blog.
There is no way at all to remove the uncategorized category from a wordpress.com webblog. It’s not even possible with a self hosted wordpress w/o extensively hack the theme and the core. The uncategorized category is a placeholder for a post not having any category. You can’t even delete that category to not have any … Read more