What Is Better - WordPress.com vs WordPress.org (A Detailed Comparison)

This blog has been especially designed to give you a good idea of two website building platforms running under one name “WordPress”. For those who don’t know, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different applications to create and manage websites. We will let you know about each of them one by one including their advantages, disadvantages and cost of ownership.

 

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With that completed, let’s shift our attention to the core subject of this content - what’s better among WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

 

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org - What Should You Choose

 

The best way to gain a clear understanding of what both platforms are like to use, we will discuss pros and cons of each in a comparative manner.

 

So, first let’s start with the self-hosted version of WordPress:

 

WordPress.org

 

WordPress.org is the real website building platform that has garnered all the attention from masses for good reasons.

Using this open-source software is absolutely free but to make your website up and running you will have to get a domain name and a web host; and both of them require an investment.

 

Now let’s see what are the pros of using “WordPress.org” to develop a website:

 

Advantages of Using WordPress.org

 

One solid reason that attracts users towards WordPress.org is that it lets them highly customize their website without spending too much (you can use free and premium themes both). That means being a whole and sole owner of your website you can perform any action that you want.

 

We have drafted a few other reasons underneath for using WordPress.org.

Have a look and see where it beats out its competition:

 

  • It is a free and easy to use software for all types of users (designers and non-designers both).

 

  • You are given full control of your website so there is no one to stop you from making the desired changes to it. More importantly, you have complete authority over files, database and other important documents of your site.

 

  • You are free to add any WordPress plugins or themes to your site, no matter if it is free, premium or freemium.

 

  • You can monetize your website running multiple ads. And the best part is you don’t need to share your revenue with anyone.​

  • You can easily set up and run an eCommerce store and membership sites without someone’s involvement.

 

Don't these benefits feel tempting? Well, who doesn't want to be in the full commanding position of anything they do, luckily WordPress.org lets you do exactly that.

 

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With that covered, let’s move onto the drawbacks of WordPress.org:

 

Disadvantages of Using WordPress.org:

With all those benefits of WordPress.org, unfortunately it also comes with a few cons.

 

Let’s take a look at what are they:

 

  • While all websites need to be hosted with some company, WordPress.org websites are not an exception. You will need to subscribe to any hosting plan of reliable service providers, so that you can safely store all your website files there. In the beginning, it will cost you somewhere around $3-$10 per month but once your website starts growing and getting more visitors the hosting prices will spike simultaneously. That said, you don’t have to worry about the raising expenses since you will be earning enough money by that time to cover the costs.​

  • There would be no one around to take care of your software updates so you will have to do that yourself. However, it’s not a hard task at all and all you need to update your WordPress install is one click on the update button.

 

  • You have to take backup of your site yourself. Thankfully, there are thousands of Backup plugins available in the WordPress repository that allows you to automatically backup your site as per your settings.

 

Though updating your WordPress software and backing up your site is not a big task to be concerned about, there are some people out there who don’t even want to touch the settings of their site. If you are one of them, you can speak up your concern with the representative of our Los Angeles web design company and then they will complete your request ASAP.

Taking a U-turn from that, let’s get back to the second part of the blog - what is WordPress.com and what are the pros and cons of using it.

 

WordPress.com

 

At its core, WordPress.com is a hosting service that was started by people behind the development of WordPress. As you can clearly see, both WordPress.com and WordPress.org seem a little same, this is the reason why most people are confused between both.

 

After the introduction of WordPress.com, now it’s time to know the benefits and shortfalls of WordPress.com.

 

Advantages of Using WordPress.com

Right off the bat, I want you to learn that WordPress.com is a suitable platform for passionate bloggers. Usually such bloggers create content for a small group of people to boost their knowledge.

 

Here we have highlighted a few benefits of WordPress.com that you would like to know:

 

  • It is a free software if you don’t need more than 3GB of space. If your requirements are more, you will have to pay a certain amount to get access to more space. For instance, a Personal plan will cost you $48/year for 6GB of space or a Premium plan will require $96/year to let you enjoy 13GB of space.

 

  • You are no longer required to update your WordPress software or take backup of your site. WordPress.com has a proper system to do that for you.

If you are one of the busiest persons on the planet, you might be looking at the second benefit as one of your necessities. But let me tell you that the picture you are seeing is yet incomplete and you must go through its drawbacks as well to understand well the exact potential of WordPress.com. We will come to that in a bit because prior to that I would like to inform you about the usefulness of our services.

 

If you are running a quite popular blog on WordPress.com and want to move it to WordPress.org, you can get into conversation with the Wordpress developer experts team of our Los Angeles web design company and they will do it successfully. In addition to that, if you want to give a modern look or design to your site that hardly any of your competitors have, you can find us for help for that as well.

 

Over to the advantages of WordPress.com, now let’s take a quick look at its disadvantages:

Disadvantages of Using WordPress.com

 

  • Your free site will contain a lot of ads but you won’t be able to earn even a penny out of it.

 

  • You cannot add plugins to your site from any external source. Being a free plan user all you can leverage is built-in Jetpack features that will come pre-activated on your site.

 

  • You are not allowed to use custom themes on your site. If you use their resources free of cost, they will allow you to install themes from their limited themes collection only.

 

  • They can remove your site from their platform at any given moment if they think you are violating their terms and conditions of service.​

  • You can’t build an eCommerce or membership site using their platform and that’s a big disappointment for WordPress.com lovers.

 

So, as you have seen, the resources for free users of WordPress.com is limited and even if you upgrade to Premium or Business plans you won’t get a lot of them. This is where WordPress.com gets badly outperformed by WordPress.org and so only a small portion of the crowd likes to build their site with WordPress.com

 

Now You Know Why You Should Build Your Site With WordPress.org?

 

If you are a beginner who has just entered the world of WordPress, it is more likely that you will get all essentials to run a small site at WordPress.com.

But once your site grows, you may find WordPress.com a little expensive option when upgrading the resources your site needs. In that case, you can undoubtedly switch to WordPress.org which is better than WordPress.com in every sense. Of course, you will have to pay a certain amount to keep your site up and running, but then you will also leverage extended services and generate more revenue.

 

Do you have any questions about WordPress.com vs WordPress.org? Feel free to ask us so that we can grab the opportunity to clear your doubts. Besides that, if you feel that you need to make changes to any portion of your site to improve the user experience or engagement, communicate with our Wordpress website design agency and get it done. To give you a brief overview of how SFWP Experts can make a difference to your bottom line I would like to outline the services we offer. They are Wordpress web design, web development, website support and maintenance, online marketing, social media marketing, SEO, and a whole lot more.

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