cathwood

Perfect, thank you ??

Ah, the old 5 more points when Buddypress is activated!

Thank you very much mbrsolution.

On a related note it’s not actually possible to get a score of 470 is it? Because you can only have one or the other activated in the ‘rename login page’ settings. So if you chose Cookie Based Brute Force Prevention and had every other box ticked, the score would be 460.

I’m not going for the max score, by the way, but clients ask me about this quite often so I’m getting my facts straight.

I am at this forum because I don’t want a wordpress.com hosted blog. I want my blog hosted by my own host, ie the company that hosts my existing website.

Is that what you mean by self-hosted wordpress blog?

From what I understand of moshu’s last reply, this is possible and I should therefore be able to have cathwood.com/blog.

I think the problem is that I am so new to the whole blog program thing that I don’t know the right questions to ask. I have spent so many hours trying to figure it all out that my brain is fried.

Plus, now I see that the questions I pasted above refer to wordpress.com. Maybe that’s why I’m confused.

I might try the free install option and see if I can get any joy in that way.

Thanks tinem, by the way!

I am not surprised I’m talking nonsense – I did say I was very confused! I’ll try not to take your admonition too personally, however.

I came to the nameserver conclusion as a result of these three Q&A’s, which I have copied and pasted from the WordPress site:

Q: How to I map my wordpress.com blog to a subdirectory of my current domain such as https://domain.com/blog ?

A: I’m sorry, but subdirectory mapping is not available. You could map to a subdomain as described below.

Q: I own domain.com, and want to map a subdomain of that to my WordPress.com blog. Is that possible?

A: Yes. You will need to add a DNS CNAME at your DNS provider before the domain mapping will work. You should not change your nameserver information if you just want to map a subdomain. The CNAME should look something like the following:

subdomain.domain.com. IN CNAME [your-blog].wordpress.com.

Once that DNS entry has been added login to your WordPress.com Dashboard, click on Options > Domains and enter subdomain.domain.com into the box. If everything is setup correctly, it will allow you to map the subdomain to your blog. If things are not quite right the system will let you know and provide suggestions on what you need to do to remedy the problem.

Note: You cannot map only the “www” subdomain since we remove the www from all the URLs at wordpress.com.

Q: I own domain.com, can I map that to my wordpress.com blog?
A: Yes! Here is what you need to do:

Go to your domain registrar and change the nameservers to the following, being sure to remove any existing nameservers that may be there:
ns1.wordpress.com
ns2.wordpress.com
ns3.wordpress.com

If your registrar needs the IP addresses:
72.232.101.25
69.90.211.204
207.7.108.237

Then you need to wait. DNS propagation could take up to 72 hours – though it is frequently less.
Go to https://dnsstuff.com
In the top right is the DNS Lookup box – enter your domain name. If it says our nameservers, you can proceed here. If it does not you need to wait some more until it does.

In your blog click Options > Domains
Put your domain name in the box, click ‘Add domain to blog’. Your domain should then appear as a choice below that button.

Along from the domain name it will say “Put blog here”
Click that.

I am still confused.

Hi moshu,

I have been growling around that site all morning, and I cannot find, in there, the simple answer to my simple question. Call me a novice, but there you go.

The question is, what URL will come up when someone goes to my wordpress blog from my website, which will be cathwood.com?

It seems that I can’t get cathwood.com/blog, because then I would have to point the nameservers to wordpress rather than to my existing host. But I’m not sure what I’m going to get instead.

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