Free Blog Sites: WordPress.com
WordPress.com is certainly the largest of the WordPress-based free blog sites. Here is the feature set at WordPress.com:
- Plugins: No
- Themes: 60
- Commercial Sites Allowed: No
- Virtual Hostnames:Yes
- Domains: Yes
WordPress.com is a fast host. Average page load times are about three to six seconds for a single post page. Account setup is fast and easy. Users can use either a virtual host (blogname.wordpress.com) or point an existing domain to WordPress.com.
Once logged in, this is standard WordPress. It’s powerful and flexible, but can also seem a little overwhelming to new bloggers. The text editor built into the WordPress software is the best in the blogging community. You can use either the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) visual editor, or the code editor to create your own HTML markup.
The theme selection is nice, taken entirely from the WordPress themes directory that is linked within all WordPress installations. Most of these are very popular themes, so your page might end up looking like thousands of others across the Internet.
The lack of plugins is disappointing. WordPress Plugins are what make the software great. Any piece of software can put text on the Internet. You don’t even need a blog or CMS program to do that. Plugins are extra programs that be added to WordPress to increase the functionality. On my personal website, I used over thirty plugins. Even more non-technical users tend to install a handful of the most useful plugins.
Commercial sites are not allowed on WordPress.com. The site’s terms of service make it clear that links to affiliate programs such as Clickbank and Amazon Associates are not allowed. While this is fine for a personal or hobbyist website, that makes WordPress.com entirely unsuitable if you are interested in making money from your website.
[Full disclosure: I own Emerald Nova, a free WordPress-based blog host. I won't review my own site, except to post the basic facts.]
November 1, 2007 at 1:34 am
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June 20, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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July 20, 2010 at 8:09 am
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