Whenever we talk about free stuff, first thing come up in our mind is their will be some limitation for it. Same is true with free wordpress. Here are some difference between free wordpress and Self hosted wordpress.
1) Limitation on Theme Options
Free wordpress.com have some themes. You can use only from their list. You can’t add other than that. But in self hosted wordress, you can use any theme. You can edit theme in self hosted if you have knowledge about code and php. You can do same with free wordpress blog, but you need to pay extra for it.
2) No Private Advertising.
Yes, free wordpress.com isn’t allowing private advertise on your blog. Making money is reason to run blog, but if free wordpress is not allowing private advertising then you won’t prefer it as blog platform. If you are making blog only for friend and family then, free wordpress is best but not for professional blogger who is blogging for passion.
On other side, you can use code to put private advertise on self hosted wordpress blog. You can use ad any where on blog if you have knowledge of CSS.
3) WordPress Plugins
WordPress plugins play important role to make blog attractive. With plugins, you don’t need to code more. Free wordpress don’t allow you to upload wordpress plugins, but on self hosted blog, you can. WordPress.com have some but not all useful. As blogger we need twitter tools, tweetmeme, and social bookmarking….
4) Expensive Upgrades
Free wordpress give you access to use some features as self hosed blog such as custom domain, more storage and using other wordpress theme, but it will charge you more than self hosed blog.
5) Subdomains
Subdomain means another domain under your domain. For instance you have domain name http://www.yourdomain.com and you want to make forum using subdomain http://forums.yourdomain.com. You can’t in free wordpress blog, but in self hosted you have freedom to do it. You might not need it when you start new blog, but need after some time to use for forums or other purpose.
So, What do you prefer? A free wordpress blog or Self hosted wordpress blog?
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