{"id":1281,"date":"2006-05-19T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T05:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/get-a-wordpresscom-account-without-a-blog\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:21:29","slug":"get-a-wordpresscom-account-without-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/get-a-wordpresscom-account-without-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a WordPress.com Account Without a Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting development has occured in the WordPress.com community. Now you can get a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress.com<\/a> Account without actually getting a wordpress blog with it.<\/p>\n<p>Why would you want a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/sans-blog\/\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress.com username without a blog<\/a>, they tell you why<\/p>\n<p>    * If you wanted to <strong>leave comments<\/strong> on blogs that require sign-in<br \/>\n    * If you read a blog that uses our not-yet-released <strong>members-only feature<\/strong><br \/>\n    * If you are a writer on <strong>an existing blog<\/strong>, but don&#8217;t want a blog of your own<br \/>\n    * If you just want an <strong>API key<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd your subdomain is blocked, e.g. username.wordpress.com just incase you decide to create a blog later. <\/p>\n<p>I know this is very useful because many times I have not been able to post comments to wordpress blogs due to lack of a wordpress.com login. And I did not want to create another blog just to post a comment.<\/p>\n<p>In another instance, I activated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/akismet-spam-karma-wordpress-plugins-stop-comment-spam\/\">Akismet anti comment spam WordPress plugin<\/a> on this site, and it required an API key to activate it, which could only be obtained when I created a WordPress.com account. <\/p>\n<p>So this feature is very welcome and will surely help the community to grow better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting development has occured in the WordPress.com community. Now you can get a WordPress.com Account without actually getting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}