It sounds like you are logging in as a subscriber rather than as an admin.
Thanks for getting back to me, but I’m still hopelessly lost and have tried finding answers through support and forums to no avail. So, I’m hoping you will continue to give me some help.
First I can’t even figure out how to login to my wp.org admin. When you go to wp.org there is no login page and the one I did find, again, just gives me this profile thing — no dashboard.
I have downloaded wp from an independently hosted site to .org but the instructions I’m getting from both about activating the site are so confusing. I created an acct with wp.org, but it is unclear if it is as a for subscriber or a site user (as you suggest the problem is) is unclear. I don’t know why this is so difficult for me, but any help you can give me would be most appreciated.
I’ve also tried exporting my .com site to my .org site with the instructions for exporting the xml files, but when I do so I get the msg that you can’t export xml files, only jpegs etc. So why do the instructions tell you you can”! I’m guess that again, it’s because I’m on a subscriber site rather than a user.
If you have the patience to check this out, the instructions are here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/
And if you don’t have that patience, and I can’t imagine why you would, can you can point me to someone who will walk me through this on the phone — for pay? Sigh, I guess I will have to do that. I’d really hoped I could figure this out myself as it is a new small biz, but I guess you get what you pay for. Thanks again for any help you can give me. Cheers, Gretchen
I found that “WordPress for Dummies” by Lisa Sabin-Wilson to be very helpful for me – she starts at beginners and works you through Theme development.
The more detailed your questions (with a link to your site if appropriate) will help people to understand what information you need. A good headline helps also.
The Codex can be intimidating – I have found that WordPress.com has some nice tutorials with nice screen shots for some subjects.
Gretchen,
It seems you may be confused as to the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org.
WordPress.com is a place where you can host a blog run by wordpress for free by registering an account.
WordPress.org is a site where you can download the latest version of the free wordpress software for use on your own site on a server of your choice. No registration or wordpress.com account is necessary.
If you had your domain redirected to your wordpress.com account, you’ll have to change that first.
