Comments on: WordPress.com or WordPress.org

By: Jennifer Rodgers

Jennifer Rodgers — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:04:46 +0000

You are so right!! I have just found out about wordpress.org!! Yes where have I been – don’t answer that. I am making the move this week….and adding all the tracking features etc.

Thaks

By: Angie Zerbe

Angie Zerbe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:49:39 +0000

Good stuff Gina. We used this comparison chart to help us decide:
http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html

Ended up going with Blogger for the time being – it just was too quick & easy to get going to say no at this point.

By: Joe Heidler

Joe Heidler — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:00:54 +0000

Thank you very much for this informative post. It explains a lot of things that I have been wondering about on my blog at http://bestroofer.wordpress.com/. I think that it is time for me to make a change. Great info. Thanks again!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:34:49 +0000

Thank you everyone for the fantastic comments. I was glad I was able to help some people. Fantastic questions on Twitter as well.

The most important thing by far is the domain name. How it is hosted and what you switch around are things you can do whenever, but your domain name is EVERYTHING. Which brings me to your comment Collentine. You absolutely can have your own domain name with WordPress.com. A lot of people do not know that.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

By: @collentine

@collentine — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:04:41 +0000

another big difference is being able to have your own domain name on your .org account.

By: bryan willmert

bryan willmert — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:44:29 +0000

3 months ago i switched from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. there are many themes which you can choose from in many different places.. from there i love the control of my own site.. i set my wife up on the .com side but after helping her with .com, now i want to get her on .org as well!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:47:38 +0000

This is great information. I am in the process of switching over to WordPress and am glad to know the real difference between .com & .org to save me some valuable time! Thanks

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:18:50 +0000

I didn’t realize how much I was missing by not being on WordPress.org. If you’ve not already started a blog, just start there. First go to GoDaddy.com (it’s what I use) and register a URL. Then go to WordPress.org and create an account. From there, it’s pretty self-explanatory.

By: V.

V. — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:15:24 +0000

Made the error of going with .com initially and it was pretty difficult to figure out how to convert to a hosted site and to .org a few months later as I understood the .com limitations better. Great post to help readers and blog-interested folks understand the limitations of going with .com

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Very good, now I know the difference