Comments on: Self Hosted WordPress.org vs. Free WordPress.com [Infograph]

By: joanpique

joanpique — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:25:07 +0000

For webmasters is much better self hosted, for people who don’t know anything of programming or design, or people who don’t care about personalizations, the free hosted is the choice…

I have my self hosted wordpress with a personalized theme, and from wordpress.com (free hosted) i only envy the comment form with facebook, twitter, openid, avatars support, suscribe to comments/posts and the effects in the form…

Anyone know any tutorial for making something similar in a theme (without a lot of plugins)?

By: Alfonso Brodsho

Alfonso Brodsho — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:22:36 +0000

I agree. Self hosting is the way to go.

By: Debra Leigh Wilson

Debra Leigh Wilson — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:26:00 +0000

Nice quick and dirty comparison between the two. I went straight to self-hosted when I first moved to WP simply because I wanted my own domain and was unaware that you could get one through them at the time. Still, I’m glad I did as I love having full control over everything. I don’t know what I would do without the Atahualpa theme. <3

By: Daniel Peiser

Daniel Peiser — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:25:59 +0000

you’re right, I was seeing the old one

By: WPBeginner - WordPress for Beginners

WPBeginner - WordPress for Beginners — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:06:37 +0000

I think you are still seeing the old version. Please retry. Just cleared all caches.

By: Daniel Peiser

Daniel Peiser — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:06:36 +0000

it’s informative, but I feel that a few icons/images would make it more appealing and linkable. There’s a mistake in the credits at the bottom (WPBeginer with one N)

By: wpbeginner

wpbeginner — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:45:50 +0000

@gmw Certainly, if you don’t care about matching your brand identity with a custom theme, look and feel, then go with a free WordPress.com. Last I checked, most major companies have matching look and feels for their blogs, so their users don’t feel alienated when they visit the blog pages. However, we are in the works of correcting the statement.

By: gmw

gmw — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:06:18 +0000

“Free WordPress.com is not for your brand. If you want to start a corporate blog, then you need the Self-Hosted WordPress Software.” This part needs to be corrected!

Nothing kills a theory better than a fact. Go to http://jumpforward.wordpress.com. This is a FREE WordPress.com blog. No VIP upgrade. No domain mapping upgrade. No CSS upgrade. This blog is associated to the following website: http://www.jumpforward.com.

Those of you who have been watching ABC’s Shark Tank reality show, might recall seeing Jump Forward’s co-founders negotiating for venture capital back in 2009. Clearly not a pair of fools who want to blog about their stamp collection.

Supporting a blog that has the potential for significant traffic spikes is no small concern. For a startup company who needs a blog in addition to their core web application, offloading those concerns to a cloud hosted service is a VERY LEGITIMATE OPTION. Often times the CEO is also the head of marketing, part-time programmer and system administrator. In this scenario WordPress.com can be a Godsend. @Alex’s comment “Blog it and forget it!” is right on the money.

Are there trade-offs? Absolutely! You document many of them well but to suggest that a free WordPress.com site cannot fit into a successful corporate business model is both misinformed and misleading.

By: wpbeginner

wpbeginner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:35:52 +0000

@photomatt Matt, we would love to correct anything that is wrong. Just shoot an email. Granted, this graphic is pretty outdated now.

By: photomatt

photomatt — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:59:14 +0000

There’s so much wrong and misleading in this graphic I’m amazed it’s on a site that claims to know about WordPress, no credibility.