WordPress is a blogging and content management  software and yes, there are two types.  WordPress.com is a blogging platform and your site would be hosted for free on the their servers.

With WordPress.org the software is still free, but your site is self-hosted with a paid hosting service such as  HostGator for example.

This information is very important because you don’t want to spend weeks or months building a blog or website on the wrong platform for your purposes.

Both are free to use and in functionality, both platforms are very similar, but there are some very important differences.

Here are my top 5 reasons for choosing to use
Wordpress.org for your online business
over WordPress.com

1. You own it. You can do anything you want with it (assuming it’s legal of course).  With the .com version they own it.  Your site is on their servers.  They control what you can do with it and if they don’t like what you’ve done they can… Continue reading →