One of the things that motivated me to attempt blogging again was reading about the Wordland.Social client, intended as a dead-simple tool for writing a new blog post. However, setting this up for a new, self-hosted blog has proven more confusing than I expected so I wanted to jot down a few notes.
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I signed up for a shared hosting service through Nixihost.com and installed WordPress and its recommend plugins through their pre-existing Softaculous tool. This generated a plethora of different user accounts. As far as I can tell, these consist of:
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Nixihost User Account
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Nixihost CPanel User Account
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Nixihost Webmail Accounts (optional)
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WordPress User/Admin Account
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What makes the above somewhat confusing is that Account 1 can be used to authenticate for the other 3 Accounts, which obscures the fact that there are technically multiple usernames and passwords.
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Adding to this, Wordland relies on a plugin called Jetpack to handle user authentication, per the creator's well documented (and understandable) aversion to managing such services.
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Jetpack is a plugin that can be linked to a WordPress.com User Account. WordPress.com is an all-in-one service for building and hosting websites that use the free, open-source WordPress software.
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Jetpack appears to be a very big plugin with lots of paid features, but thankfully the free plan is good enough for Wordland.
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To set up Wordland, I logged into my hosting provider (Nixihost), navigated to the "CPanel" tool suite, and then navigated to the installed copy of the WordPress software. Again, the Nixihost User Account's credentials allowed me to authenticate to all three of these accounts.
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Opening the Jetpack plugin, I followed the prompts to log-in to my (ancient, disused) WordPress.com account.
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Finally, I opened Wordland and followed the prompts to log-in using my WordPress.com account. I have a little widget that allows me to pick between my dormant WordPress.com-hosted blog and my new Nixihost-hosted blog.