What is wordpress ? Learn the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com

by blog-master on January 26, 2011 · 7 comments

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What is WordPress ?

Simply, WordPress is one of the most recommended and widely using blogging platform in the world.  WordPress is one of the most widest

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used open source Content Management System (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application, powered by PHP language and MySQL database. WordPress has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1000000 biggest websites in the world. WordPress was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg.

What is WordPress.Com

WordPress.com is provides free sub-domain hosting services to public. Everyone can create new free blogs in wordpress.com. After joining, you can post topics to wordpress.com and publish the same. Here i am quoting one example of wordpress.com website.

http://wordpresshelpcenter.wordpress.com/

The above website is a free website of someone. Who created a sub-domain under wordpress.com. It is free service. But wordpress.com having some limitations itself. Such as we cannot put scripts inside the post.(for advertisement, we need to put script inside the post & inside theme). There are hundreds of ready-made themes are available inside wordpress.com. But we cannot modify that theme.

What is WordPress.org

WordPress.Org is a web software. Everyone can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress.org is both free and priceless at the same time.

The core software is built by hundreds of wordpress.org community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Already over 25 million people chosen WordPress to power the place on the web. Visit: wordpress.org website:  http://wordpress.org/

My next topic will teach you how to create a wordpress.com blog & how to created wordpress.org website? wait and see.

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1 Giri kumar January 28, 2011 at 1:51 am

very useful for beginners, who start blogging with wordpress support just like me… thanks a lot for this article

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2 Nideesh Chathanadath February 2, 2011 at 2:16 am

good keep it up…

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3 priyesh February 2, 2011 at 1:17 pm

i want to create a new wordpress blog… can you mention some good sub-domain hosting providers names here ? please

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4 Vineesh Palayad February 2, 2011 at 1:24 pm

You can use either wordpress.com.. i mean yourname.wordpress.com or other providers like http://www.evood.com , http://www.blogs.co.in etc

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5 Bola March 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm

What is wordpress ? Learn the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com

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