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Help! Getting WordPress.com Support
WordPress.com offers a number of avenues for reaching helpful, individualized support, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine the best place to ask your question.
This document details the various types of support offered for WordPress.com and WordPress.com-related services, and how to take advantage of them. It will help you get straight to the right source, so that you can get the quickest, most accurate answer to your question!
Where should I go for support?
- If you have a paid upgrade, please use the "Contact Support" form. If we have chatters available, you'll be able to chat with us live. Otherwise you can submit the form and we'll follow up by email.
- If you do not have a paid upgrade, please post your question in our community forums.
- If you specifically need help with CSS (changing the fonts, colors, hiding or rearranging aspects of your theme), please ask for advice in the CSS Customization forum.
- For help with a premium theme, please post your question in the premium support forum for your theme.
- If you have a Business upgrade, you can access live chat support from your blog's Dashboard Monday through Friday, from 7:00am to 7:00pm Eastern time, or email our staff.
- If you have any questions about your WordAds account, please contact the WordAds team.
- If your comments are being marked as spam, please contact our Akismet team.
- If you have a self-hosted WordPress.org site, please use the WordPress.org forums for support, or contact your web hosting provider. If you need help with the Jetpack plugin specifically, please contact Jetpack support.
For more detailed information, please read on.
Before you reach out to support, you might want to check out our many help resources to see if your question is already answered there.
Our Support site has a lot of great documentation to answer your questions. We have videos, screenshots, and walkthroughs detailing many of the questions and problems users encounter while using WordPress.com. Search through the documentation and you'll likely learn some extra tips as you go. For tips on how to troubleshoot you might want to check out How To Be a WordPress.com Detective.
The WordPress.com Forums are a great place to get support as well. Staff are active members in the forums, but there are a lot of volunteers ready an willing to help as well. Most of the forum volunteers are veteran WordPress.com users who started out just like you. They'll surely have some tips and tricks to help with most questions.
Premium Theme owners, be sure to visit the dedicated Premium Themes forums where theme authors provide customization tips and exclusive support.
For CSS questions, there's a designated CSS Customization forum. The forum is monitored by volunteers and WordPress.com staff who are especially well-versed in CSS, and this will typically be a more detailed and helpful source of CSS support than the normal support channels.
Be sure to make use of the forum's search feature to locate previous discussions that could provide the solution to your problem.
Have more questions about the forums? Check out this support document.
Contact WordPress.com Staff
WordPress.com support staff are "Happiness Engineers," because our goal is to engineer your happiness! If you host your blog or website here with WordPress.com, we are happy to help you with any questions or problems you might have.
Please contact our Happiness Engineers via the "Contact Support" form. If you have any paid upgrade in your WordPress.com account, you'll be offered a choice of whether to ask your question publicly or privately.
If you choose public, your question will be posted in the Staff Answers forum, where it will be answered by a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer. These questions are publicly visible, but only you and WordPress.com staff can reply on the thread.
If you choose private, your question will be posted in a private thread that can only be viewed by you and WordPress.com staff. Nobody else will be able to view the exchange.
We value all of our users equally and very much want to help everyone. However, there are a lot of you! We are continually expanding our staff so that we can provide more comprehensive support.
Currently, however, private support is only available to those users who have at least one paid upgrade. However, if you do not have an upgrade, never fear! You can still receive help in the WordPress.com forums, as discussed above. WordPress.com staff are also active in the forums, helping all WordPress.com users regardless of upgrade.
Timeline for Answers to Support Requests
We answer all questions in the order in which they are received. We try very hard to answer all support requests within 24 hours, but sometimes we do get a bit behind. If you have not received an answer to your question, please don't submit a duplicate request. We will get to you as soon as we possibly can, and submitting multiple requests slows things down.
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In particular, the more specific details you can provide about exactly what you're doing and seeing on your end, the better we'll be able to understand and diagnose your problem. Please be sure to include the following:
- The URL to the blog you are having trouble with.
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- A detailed description of what went wrong, what you have tried so far, what you were expecting to happen, and what you would like to happen.
- Your username and the associated email address if you are having trouble with a user account.
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Live Chat Support
If you have the Business upgrade, you have access to priority live chat support.
You can access live chat by going to My Sites → Help and clicking on Contact Us towards the bottom of the page. Fill out the form and click on Chat with Us underneath.
Keep in mind that we may not be available to chat right away if all of our operators are busy chatting with other users. In this case you will see Submit Support Ticket instead of Chat with Us. You can send your request by email or wait for few minutes until you see a pop up message on your screen informing that one of our operators is available to chat. The button will automatically change to Chat with Us. You don't need to refresh the screen. The message will pop up and the button will be switched automatically once an operator will become available.
Occasionally, we do offer live chat support for other (non-Business) users. If live chat is available, you will see a pop-up box to contact us.
Phone Support
We do not provide phone support. All support is done through online communication.
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Dubai World Expects Debt Restructuring in Months
Dubai World, the state-owned company seeking to renegotiate the terms on $23.5 billion of debt, said it expects to complete the restructuring process in the "coming months" after a meeting with its creditors in the emirate today.
"As is customary at this stage of the process, this was an informational session and no resolution was sought in the meeting," Dubai World said in an e-mailed statement. "Creditor banks will now have the opportunity to review the information provided before responding to the proposal. The company expects to complete the restructuring over the coming months."
Dubai World made the presentation to about 70 banks at the Atlantis hotel after a group of its seven biggest lenders said May 20 they agreed to its broad terms. The terms accepted by the main banks were unchanged when presented to other creditors today, two people who attended the presentation said.
Dubai World, the holding company whose real-estate unit Nakheel PJSC is building palm-shaped islands off the emirate's coast, and its main creditor banks agreed in May to alter the terms on $14.4 billion of bank loans and $8.9 billion of government liabilities to resolve a crisis that roiled global markets last year. It said banks would be paid $4.4 billion in five years and another $10 billion over eight years at below- market interest rates supported by assets sales.
Asset Sales
Dubai World presented forecasts of cash flows for the group today and said it will sell assets if operating cash flows are insufficient to repay debt, a banker who attended the presentation said. It didn't reveal which assets it would sell when, and said that decision would depend on when each asset's price recovers and by how much, the banker said, declining to be identified because the discussion was private.
Dubai World and its consultants, including Chief Restructuring Officer Aidan Birkett as well as the bank coordination committee, said in their presentations that the debt restructuring plan outlined on May 20 was the best option available for banks to ensure loan repayments, said the banker.
A Dubai World spokesman declined to comment.
Dubai World controls DP World Ltd., the world's fourth-biggest port operator, private equity firm Istithmar World PJSC, and Economic Zones World, an operator of business parks such as Jebel Ali Free Zone. Istithmar bought New York luxury retailer Barneys in 2007 for $942.3 million, while Dubai World acquired a $5.1 billion stake in U.S. casino company MGM Mirage in 2008.
Interest Rates
In the May 20 proposal, Dubai World offered banks various combinations of interest rates and principal repayment options depending on whether they lent in dollars or dirhams. Banks will be paid 1 percent interest on the loans maturing in five years. Lenders have three options under the eight-year maturities, with at least 1 percent interest over the life of the loan and varying additional rates from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent at maturity. Two of these options also have shortfall guarantees.
"We don't like it -- the pricing is low," said Suresh T. Vaidyanathan, head of operations at Bahrain-based Alubaf Arab International Bank BSC. "They said you take it as it is, otherwise we will go to liquidation. They made a presentation on cash flows. There is excess cash and there will be a big payment in kind" after eight years when the loan matures, he said.
A special court set up by the Dubai government in December to oversee the financial restructuring of Dubai World can enforce the agreement if the proposal receives the support of banks representing more than two thirds of the value of loans.
Dubai's Debt
Dubai and its state-owned companies have racked up $109.3 billion of debt, according to International Monetary Fund estimates, as the emirate transformed itself into a tourism, trade and financial services hub to diversify its economy. About $15.5 billion of that is due this year, the IMF said.
Dubai World's bank coordination committee, which negotiated with the company on behalf of the other lenders, represents about 60 percent of its bank loans, it said in May. The committee comprises local lenders Emirates NBD PJSC and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC and foreign lenders, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd.
Nakheel, which held a separate meeting with its lenders July 14, said a group of its creditors negotiating on behalf of banks "unanimously supported" a proposal on altering the terms on $10.5 billion of loans and unpaid bills. Nakheel expects to complete the restricting over the "coming months," it said.
Nakheel plans to offer creditor banks an interest rate of 4 percentage points more than benchmark rates on new loans as part of the debt restructuring, two bankers with knowledge of the plan said July 13. In return, lenders would agree to extend the life of the loans by five years, they said.

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