Welcome to Wordpress Addicts! As you probably already guessed, this blog is dedicated to my love of probably the best blogging platform ever. If you are wondering “what the hell is Wordpress”, well where have you been for the last 5 years :-P.
Wordpress first started in 2003, and at first was a major underdog in the blogging world. But as the years have gone on Wordpress has become more and more powerful with its many themes and plugins. It has now become the blogging platform of choice in the blogging world.
Before we go any further you should know there are two types of Wordpress: Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.While both are free (in theory) to use there are many differences between the two.
Wordpress.com
- Completely free to use
- Hosted with Wordpress
- Some great free themes but there is a limited variety
- Unable to use plugins
- Unable to monetize
- You will usualy use a Wordpress subdomain (something like www.yoursitename.Wordpress.com)
Wordpress.org
- Downladable blogging software
- You need your own Domain
- You need your own hosting
- Massive amount of themes available both free and paid all over the web
- Massive amount of plugins available to download (we will talk more about themes and plugins later :-))
- You are able to monetize (we will also talk more about this later)
In this blog we will mainly be talking about Wordpress.org as it is way more fun and versatile to work with. You will find all kind of handy tips and tricks from the very basics, to customizing your blogs, and from monetizing to promoting your blog. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave your comments both good and bad.
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