It might seem that getting a blog site into China should no longer be that hard… after all, WordPress.com, Blogger.com and Typepad.com have all managed it, right?
Well yes, they have, but I’m guessing that it wasn’t initially that easy for them, and they’ve gone through some pretty tried and tested channels to make sure it’s the case. It probably helps to have some good Valley links who’ve done it before… and who know who to talk to.
But that may well not be the case for plenty of WPMU sites, and especially so for those that use ‘blogs’ in the title… for example, Edublogs – which, as you might have guessed by this post so far is… blocked in China.
Now, of course there are tried an tested ways for Chinese internet users to circumvent these blocks… but that’s not what we really want is it… we want our users, especially when a lot of them are in Beijing, to be able to carry only blogging regardless.
Heck, we even offer a variety of Chinese language options.
So… can anyone help out with some advice as to how to get WordPress MU sites unblocked?
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August 5, 2008 
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I just realized I have a member in Hong Kong and she manages to post fine. Not sure if that still counts tho.
Last time I knew, wp.com was still blocked in China.
According to my users ‘in the field’ wp.com isn’t blocked by edublogs.org is.
I honestly wouldn’t know where to start. There used to be a test site at http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org but it appears to be offline now. These may be some information in the faqs though.
It does appear that you are blocked but wordpress.com isn’t:
http://www.websitepulse.com has a checker from a machine inside china – the edublogs.org domain doesn’t even resolve.
My WPMU in China not blocked.
china’s internet censorship is going insane. It block almost any site which feels isn’t useless. Luckly blogger is accesible in china.
I use http://www.highspeedvpn.com/ to get on WordPress blogs when in China. It`s pretty fast and not so expensive ..