Recently we talked about What is WordPress and two variation of WordPress.
- Free WordPress.com Blog
- Self Hosted WordPress blog
You must be thinking what is the difference between these two WordPress blog.
Free WordPress blog
WordPress.com provide you with a free WordPress blog with lots of limitations like
Limitations of Free WordPress Blogs
- Theme selection
- Plugins
- Putting advertisement
- File Upload limit
- Limited Storage
- WordPress.com domain
- No FTP
Self Hosted WordPress blog
Where as a Self hosted WP blog is more or less like a website which is hosted on your server where you are free to select any number of WordPress themes, plugins, Storage limit and advertisement.
Advantages of Self Hosted WordPress Blog
- Unlimited Plugins
- Unlimited Theme
- Unlimited Storage
- Unique domain name
- Advertisement
- Self hosted
- Complete control
- FTP access.
More over you will have your own domain like I have www.themepremium.com .
We will discus more on WordPress blogs in upcoming posts. Don’t forget to use any of the subscription offer mentioned in the sidebar to subscribe to themepremium.
Great job on breaking it down. I, too, wrote a similar piece a few weeks ago for folks who need to quickly understand the difference. Your info is spot on!
Very useful article for the beginners.
Great to see your new wordpress-oriented blog. Wishing you the best.
Shafar
Kudos for breaking it down nicely! A must read for those planning to start a blog and those thinking of switching from other platforms.
Very nice information for all newbies about the difference in features that we feel in free WordPress blog and a self hosted WordPress blog.