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WordPress.com VS WordPress.org

WordPress.org VS WordPress.com Theme Control Full Control Limited Control You have full control with your custom or commercial themes. Feel free to modify or customize to your liking. You can only choose one of the free themes on WordPress and are barred from modifying the theme. You can only purchase a premium theme from the WordPress.com website. Domains Register Your Own Domain Free or Paid You have to pay for your own domain name, which range in price from $10 - $15 / year. WordPress.com comes with free/default domains with the .wordpress.com in the URL. You can upgrade to your own domain without the .wordpress.com for $18 / year. Hosting Choose Your Own Hosting Host With WordPress.com Like with domains, you have to pay for your own hosting, which ranges in price. Hosting for a low traffic blog căn be as little as $40~/ year. With high traffic blogs, hosting can be very expensive. WordPress.com blogs are FREE for up to 3GB of space. Upgrades include 13GB of Space for $99 / year and unlimited for $299 7 year. Plugins Plenty of Plugins No Plugins Allowed WordPress.org has tens of thousands of free plugins available and you can upload as many plugins as you want. You are limited to only the nearly two dozen built-in plugins. No free or custom plugins can be uploaded. Monetization Limited Freedom Freedom To Monetize 2$ You have full monetizing freedom on your website. Show as many ads from any ad network that you want. More importantly, you get to keep all ad revenue. You can not have ads on your website unless you have moderate to high traffic. You can then apply for 'WordAds' where you have to split your ad revenue 50/50 with WordPress/Automattic. Maintenance Maintenance No Worries You are responsible for keeping up maintenance on your website, including backups, moderating spam and updating plugins. You do not have to worry about maintenance when using WordPress.com. Automattic keeps up with all updates, optimization and backups. WordPress.org or WordPress.com While, for the most part, you won't be forced to upgrade if you go with WordPress.com, you really can't build a professional and money making blog without important features such as plugins and complete theme control. Honestly it is smarter and more cost effective to go with WordPress.org, unless you are planning on creating a casual blog that you will not spend too much time on.

WordPress.com VS WordPress.org

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A simple comparison of the two WordPress platforms, which compares important features like theme customization freedom, ads and hosting.

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