Too many problems for a newbie

  • gerceginkitabi

    (@gerceginkitabi)


    7 years ago

    I’m using WP with cPanel on my host and domain. I’m a newbie and I don’t have much time and resources to learn web design or coding or such. I migrated my WP.com blog to an independent domain and literally everything got worse.
    1) Why is editing interface different (worse) than I use in my wp.com blog? wp.com interface was frustrating enough.
    2) I cannot edit my previous posts. I have no idea what’s going on. HTML tab works fine but I cannot edit the post in “preview” tab.
    3) I cannot comment on my own post! It wants me to fill in nonexistent boxes.
    4) Could you tell me how do I make my website Google-free? I don’t want Google analytics, Google fonts or anything Google related because I don’t want surveillance bothering my visitors. Yet a lot of plugins seem to be related with Google. I still want to be able to run email notification for subscribers. Google crawlers and indexing are welcome. Anything beyond that I don’t want.
    Having these problems, I refrain from paying for anything atleast for now, especially without money-back guarantee. I should be able to solve these issues without having to pay. Thanks in advance.

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  • a2hostingrj

    (@a2hostingrj)

    7 years ago

    1) Why is editing interface different (worse) than I use in my wp.com blog? wp.com interface was frustrating enough.

    What do you mean by that? Is there a problem with Gutenberg or the Theme Editor?

    2) I cannot edit my previous posts. I have no idea what’s going on. HTML tab works fine but I cannot edit the post in “preview” tab.

    If I understand correctly, this is not a clean install, but a migration. Are you sure everything was transferred correctly?

    3) I cannot comment on my own post! It wants me to fill in nonexistent boxes.

    Were you using any anti spam or anti bot plugin?

    Davood Denavi

    (@binarywc)

    7 years ago

    1) Why is editing interface different (worse) than I use in my wp.com blog? wp.com interface was frustrating enough.

    I think that you need to install the Classic Editor plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/ my understanding is that WP.com is making it harder to stay on classic editor

    2) I cannot edit my previous posts. I have no idea what’s going on. HTML tab works fine but I cannot edit the post in “preview” tab.

    Make sure you have migrated correctly as a2hostingrj has said but also make sure you have the aforementioned classic editor plugin installed.

    3) I cannot comment on my own post! It wants me to fill in nonexistent boxes.

    I’d suggest trying to debug using the Health Check plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/ after installing the plugin see if you can comment on your posts while in troubleshooting mode. If you can then chances are everything did not migrate correctly or there is plugin/theme conflict that needs to be figured out.

    4) Could you tell me how do I make my website Google-free? I don’t want Google analytics, Google fonts or anything Google related because I don’t want surveillance bothering my visitors. Yet a lot of plugins seem to be related with Google. I still want to be able to run email notification for subscribers. Google crawlers and indexing are welcome. Anything beyond that I don’t want.

    Google Fonts are usually related to your theme, but can sometimes be included with plugins too. There is no tracking that is done when you use google fonts. https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/. As for Google Analytics that is only going to be enabled if you enable it. So no worries there.

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