What is Wordpress?

Wordpress is one of the best blogging platform i.e. with its help you can create your own blog.WordPress blogs seem to look more professional and cool compared to Blogger. There are thousands of skins, themes, plug-ins and stuff that the world of WordPress is impressive.

Wordpress is available in two set ups, wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Both the types wordpress.com and wordpress.org have their own pros and cons.

Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?Which one to choose?

This article is dedicated to those who are confused between wordpress.com and wordpress.org.

After reading this, you can easily decide what to choose, wordpress.com or wordpress.org.

Wordpress.com:

A free one which in other words is just a demo of the wordpress software. People rarely use that (i.e. wordpress.com) because you don't have rights to edit the stylesheet, hence no customization possible. When you sign up for a WordPress.com blog, you’ll get a URL like myblog.wordpress.com, or you can map a custom domain name(paid) like myblog.com.

Pros of Wordpress.com

• WordPress.com requires no technical knowledge to start blogging.

• Blog Hosting and domain name is totally free.Wordpress.com provides free domain (myblog.wordpress.com) and wordpress host the blog for free.

Cons of Wordpress.com

• Major disadvantage of wordpress.com is that you can’t use any ads on your blog. Like google adsense, chitika, kontera or any other types of affiliate ads. If you want to use ads on your blog, you can become a paid member of wordpress.com ant then you can use any type of ads on your blog.

• WordPress.com may publish their own ads on your blog.

• WordPress.com doesn’t allow more customization. You have to satisfy with little customizations.

• You cannot use your own themes for your blog.

• You can’t modify the PHP code behind your blog

• You cannot install any wordpress plugins.

Wordpress.org: 

Pros of Wordpress.org.

• It provides full customization i.e. Complete control to change code if you’re technically good.

• The best part of wordpress.org is you can install any wordpress plugins to your blog and increase your blog functionality with less efforts.

• You can use your own theme for your blog.

Cons of Wordpress.org

• You have to buy web hosting and register a domain name to use wordpress.org. You have to install wordpress.org on your server. So you must buy web host and domain for your blog. This generally costs $5-12 a month.

• It requires some technical knowledge.

Expert Advice: We recommend wordpress.com for those who has just started blogging and wordpress.org for professionals and for those who want to make money online.If you are new to blogging go for wordpress.com,if your blog becomes popular switch to wordpress.org.