WordPress, World's no. 1 CMS
(Content Management System) platform in term of popularity, had
stated its journey in the World of Internet as a blogging platform.
WordPress enables its users to work
with flexible blogging option which are free WordPress blogs and self
hosted WordPress blogs. Now there might be a question that strikes
in your mind, What is the difference between these two blogging
option and which one you should go for?
Here we have compiled a list of a
few advantages and disadvantages of both of these platform. Check
them out:
- Free WordPress Blog
Creating a free WordPress blog is
quite easy, all you have to do is sign up with WordPress.com and your
WordPress free blog is ready, Yes it is this simple.
Pros:
- No blog setup charges as this platform is available for free.
- Free to manage and maintain a blog as this platform timely upgrades the software with security issues, bugs and any other error.
- Being a part of World's no. 1 website developers community, you can get the most out of your free WordPress blog.
Cons:
- Free blog doesn't allows its users to upload any plugin other than WordPress own plugins.
- Free blogs created with WordPress get some ads posted on it and if user want to get rid of those ads, then he/she have to pay for that.
- One can't able to upload any third party theme on a WordPress free blog and even the customization of theme is also not possible with a free blog.
- Self Hosted WordPress Blog
For creating a self hosted WordPress
blog, first you have to install WordPress software at your computer
system and then you can manage your blog through that software.
Pros:
- Uploading and customization of third party themes are possible with self hosted WordPress blogs. A customized theme can give your blog entirely different and unique looks to make that stand out from other WordPress blogs that seems similar.
- Self hosted blog enables you to avail the benefits of plethora of plugins developed by various WordPress developers around the globe.
- Being the owner of a self hosted WordPress blog, one can have a full control over his/her blog. It is free of all the term and conditions of WordPress organization.
- A self hosted WordPress blog allows its users to place ads over the blog.
Cons:
- Blog setup charges are applicable. One have to pay nominal fess for domain name and hosting.
- One have to manage and maintain his/her blog by their own.
- Upgrading of software is needed to be done by blog owner.
