It has been understood that many wordpress beginners getting confuse about the differences between Wordpress.com And Wordpress.org , The main reason for this tutorial is to give rise, all wp users to choose a particular blog to use in those two blogs.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WORDPRESS.COM AND WORDPRESS.ORG
1- In Wordpress.org All Plugins Allowed
In wordpress.org you can upload any free, paid or custom plugin that you want. This Allow you to maximize wordpress's potential as a CMS.
- In Wordprss.com No plugins Are Allowed
You cannot upload any free, paid or custom plugins. There a lot of built-in plugin-like features.
2- Wordpress.org Support Full Themes
You can use custom/commercial themes, and all other free themes that exist. You can modify, customize or do any thing you like with your site.
- In Wordpress.com Limited Themes Support
You are limited to free themes that exist in wordpress theme respiratory. You cannot modify the Css, or Other codes within the themes.
3- Wordpress.org Is Not Part Of Network
Because your site is independent and not part of wordpress.com network, your post do not get extra traffic from wordpress.com network.
-There Is Extra Traffic In Worpress.com
Wordpress.com as a network may feature your post in their blog of the day section or tag. This will result in extra traffic to your blog that you normally wouldn't get.
4-There is Maintainace In Wordpress.org
You are responsible for keeping your site update, keeping your site regular backups, having SPAM control options, and most importantly keeping your site optimize.
- There Is No maintenance In Wordpress.com
You don't have to worry about anything. Automatic Staff take care of all site maintenance including updates, optimization, backup and any other.
5-Monetization Freedom In Wordpress.org
You can sell as many ads you want on your website. You can use any ad service you want. Most importantly you get to keep 100% of what you earn from your site.
-Limited Monetization In Wordpress.org
You are Not allow to sell ads on your site unless you receive 25,000 pageviews/ month. In which case you have to apply to try the feature called ad control.
6-Regular Experience In wordpress.org
You have to pay your web hosting monthly or annually. You would need to pay a domain registration fee yearly. For high traffic sites, the cost of hosting can get expensive.
- Wordpress.com Is Free
Wordpress.com blog are Free for up 3GB of storage space. Your blogs will display the text ads to logged-out users. You also have to pay domain registration fee for custom names if don't want sub-domain.
7- Wordpress.org is of install
Wordpress.org is of installing. I.e its software install through hosting.
-Wordpress.com Is Not Installed Software
The wordpress.com is directly registed site and work on it with out using hosting site.
Which one is for you?
If you are a personal blogger who do not care about making money from their sites, then go with WordPress.com.
If you are a blogger trying to make blogging into a career, then you want to use self hosted WordPress.org. Often people will say, self-hosted WordPress will cost you money. For a small enough site, it is actually cheaper.
Let’s say you use WordPress.com, buy their custom domain ($17 per year), pay for ad-free option ($29.97 per year), and get custom design upgrade ($30 per year).
That total is $76.97, and you are still not in full control.
For WordPress.org, you can use Bluehost (officially recommended by WordPress) which costs $3.95 per month so $47.4 per year, and it includes a free domain name.
If you go with other web hosting companies, then you will pay a similar price, but you won’t get a domain.
However, you can get a domain name for $10 from Godaddy. Your total would come to $57.4 per year. You will have full control over everything. Is one easier to use than the other? Nope. The interface of both are very similar.
We always recommend everyone to use WordPress.org, so you are in full control of your site. The final choice is always yours.
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