Make Your Blog On WordPress.com

WordPress.com hosts WordPress blogs for free. Hosting your blog on WordPress.com frees you from having to get your own hosting space and making sure that your Web server has the software that WordPress needs to run. It also means that your blog is ready for traffic spikes associated with popular posts. The team behind WordPress.com takes care of all the back-end stuff (patching servers, upgrading software, and the like) and leaves the blogging to you.

Keep a few things in mind when you host your blog on WordPress.com:

• WordPress URL. The URL of your blog will be something like www.mygreatblog.wordpress.com. If you’re going to host a blog for professional reasons, you may not want to advertise the fact that you’re using a free service.

• Extra cost for advanced features. WordPress.com offers some advanced features such as domain mapping, which allows you to point any domain to a blog hosted on WordPress.com (getting around the amateurish URL), but you have to pay for these features.

• No access to code. Given the nature of WordPress.com, you have no access to your blog’s code. You can’t modify the way your theme looks without paying a little extra, and you can’t upload your own custom theme.

WordPress.com offers a bunch of them for your use, but you can’t upload your own plug-ins, so if you’re interested in using one that isn’t available on WordPress.com, you’re out of luck. WordPress.com is a great option if you’re looking to get into blogging with WordPress but don’t want to make a big commitment. Registering is free and easy, and you’ll be up and blogging in no time.

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