Nowadays, most of the people use WordPress to create their website. The reason is that it is easy to use as well as customize. As a result, new people use WordPress to create a website.
However, most of the new people often confused choosing between WordPress.com and WordPress.org and most of them don’t know there is a difference between the two of them.
Do you know that? I am sure you don’t know the exact difference. If you knew then you would never come to this post.
Well, it’s not a big deal. As I said, most of the newbies don’t know that either. So here I am to let you know the difference. In order to find out what they are and what are their differences, we need to go through a complete comparison between them. So let’s get started.
WordPress.org
What have you heard about WordPress? Let me tell you.
You have heard that WordPress is the best platform for creating a website and you do not have to know any coding in order to create the website. Also, you will get a lot of other benefits when you create a website using WordPress, right?
Actually, all you have heard about WordPress is WordPress.org. Yes, WordPress.org is the actual platform to create a website. Then what is WordPress.com? We will discuss that later in this article. Before that, let’s have a look at the details of WordPress.org.
It’s a completely free source of creating a website for anyone. All you need is a hosting and a domain name. You do not need to know any Php or any other coding or programing language. Other than that you will get a lot of benefits. Here is the list of benefits you will get in WordPress.org.
Benefits
You will get the full control of your website with WordPress.org, even you can customize it as you want. You are free to do anything you need. In addition, the other benefits are:
The first benefits and the main reason WordPress.org is so popular is that it is 100% free to use and super easy to use.
You will get a total control of your website as well as its all data. No one except you has the authority to shut down your website unless you do anything illegal. That means because of anyone wants to turn off your site or because of you do not follow their rules or regulation, your site will not be turned off. Only you have the authority and power.
You can add all the paid or free plugin of WordPress by which you can do some amazing things that is, I guess, not even possible on other platforms.
You will be able to use all the free as well as paid themes of WordPress that will allow you to design your website in whatever way you want. Additionally, you can create a custom design by yourself with this without knowing any code and also change the things you want or need.
With this WordPress.org, you will get the power to run your own ad in your own website and make money without sharing your revenue to others.
You can use some powerful tools, such as Google analytics, in order to track your traffic and also analyze your traffic. That means you will get full authority to monitor your site’s traffic.
And lastly, you can create an online store through WordPress.org to sell your product and also create membership sites for selling your premium content.
With all these benefits, there are some problems.
Disadvantages
The main disadvantage of WordPress.org is that you need to buy a domain which is your website address and at the same time you need a web hosting where all of your files will be stored.
Only you will be responsible for any kinds of updates. However, it is super easy to update, you need just 1 click to update anything.
Only you will be responsible for backups. But the good news is that you will find a bunch of plugins for backup your files.
er, most of the new people often confused choosing between WordPress.com and WordPress.org and most of them don’t know there is a difference between the two of them.
Do you know that? I am sure you don’t know the exact difference. If you knew then you would never come to this post.
Well, it’s not a big deal. As I said, most of the newbies don’t know that either. So here I am to let you know the difference. In order to find out what they are and what are their differences, we need to go through a complete comparison between them. So let’s get started.
WordPress.com
If everything you have heard about WordPress is WordPress.org then what is WordPress.com?
Well, basically it is a hosting plan. Since the name is almost the same as WordPress.org and the founder, Matt Mullenweg, is one of the co-founders of WordPress.org, people become confused WordPress.com with the actual WordPress software that means WordPress.org.
The WordPress.com offers some hosting plans for your website. It starts with the free package. Free! Yes, you will get 3 GB space for free.
Clear? Now I hope you have understood the difference. Now, let’s have a look at the benefits the WordPress.com is offering.
Benefits
The first and main benefit of WordPress.com is that it offers up to 3GB space. So you can easily imagine anyone who is interested to create a personal website can be benefited with this plan. And if you want to more space, you can upgrade your free plan to another premium plan.
Additionally, you do not have to worry about the updates. The WordPress.com will take care of any update require.
But there are some disadvantages as well for which it is less likely not that popular.
Disadvantages
The problem with WordPress.com is that they will place ads on your website and they will make money. But unfortunately, you will not get any revenue from that. That means, you will bring traffic to your site, your users will see ads but you will not get any revenue from that. Moreover, you are not allowed to sell ds on your website.
Other than that, you cannot add any plugins or theme to customize your own site. That means you will have no control of your website. However, they offer only a few limited themes and plugins.
They have full authority to delete your site if they wish or think that you are violating their rules. Not only that, you cannot add any tools to monitor your traffic.
And finally, there will be a note which shows that this site is powered by WordPress.com. Whatis more? You cannot add any membership or e-commerce features by which you can sell anything.
So you can easily see that WordPress.com hosting plan is very limited no matter you are in the free plan or premium plans.