To The Ladies & Gentleman,
For the new year, I decided to give myself a gift. On the occasion of Christmas, I am delighted to present to you my new website Misstalkaholic
The past few days were tiresome. From so long, I have been planning my website. I first thought about upgrading my blog “TalkaholicMe” from wordpress.com itself. I researched a lot that I had gone almost crazy & deleted my media accidentally from the laptop. I am grateful to the Data Recovery option that technology has provided us. So, after researching like an insane I decide that I will shift to a self-hosted site. Making your own website can cost you dearly if you are not well off. So, I decided to go with WordPress.org. Now, I am going to share with you, why I opted ORG over COM.
WordPress.com Pros
- Free to set-up, you really don’t have to care about anything.
- Happiness Engineers are always happy to help via emails.
WordPress.com Cons
- Be ready to pay more which is not worth.
- There’s no contact number.
- There will be limitations on your site like you can’t have third-party advertisements.
- You need to have a minimum number of page views per month, which you won’t know before upgrading your blog. I read somewhere on the Internet that the page views required for Ads are nearly 20k, obtaining which is difficult for new bloggers.
- You can’t keep your full earning with you, you will have to share a part of it with WordPress.
WordPress.org Pros
- It won’t cost you more.
- You can monetize your site anyhow (this point is worth remembering over the cons).
- Even if you don’t know technical things, you’ll learn it fastly.
- You’ll get the support quickly on support forums if you are asking the right way.
WordPress.org Cons
- Few prices are hidden. You’ll have to buy the premium theme if you don’t like the free theme for your website. Also, you’ll have to upgrade them sooner or later.
- Similarly, you will have to pay for the upgrade version of plugins.
- We can migrate our followers, stats, comments but not the likes.
- I lost my featured images/thumbnails while importing my media.
- There’s no comment tab for self-hosted sites on WordPress Application, that means if you wish to send me your words you will have to open my link on your browser. I hope you’ll do it sometimes.
- Importing data from wordpress.com blog can be troublesome if your data exceeds 2 Mb.
Whichever way you go, you are gonna need patience and help. It took me a week to fix my new website. After compromising with few hours of sleep, stressful days, I am happy at last with the decision I took.
I hope you’ll be with me. Don’t forget to subscribe my blog MissTalkaholic!
26 Comments
Thank you for sharing the pros and cons,
I definitely will keep this in mind, I do want to self host and I know it can be more maintenance but I feel like it would be worth it. I figured I would do .com first because it would be a gradual upgrade but maybe I will do .org instead .. I don’t know yet, but I will need to give this a lot of thought. Thank you.
Shay-lon
Yup the final say has to be yours.. choose wisely.
Great information as I’ve been considering switching to .org. I’ll have to double-check the advantages over .com more carefully.
Yea all the best
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Je dis bonjour à toi et passe une bonne journée
Thank you! 🙂 Blessings, Debbie ps – lovely to meet you
same here
🙂 🙂
I didn’t know they had an .org site.
Somebody told me about .org months back. But I started googling it only when I decided to make my own website.. I hope this post will be helpful to others as well.
I hope so to. Are you going to use both?
No, I am using and promoting my self-hosted site misstalkaholic.com
I haven’t deleted my old blog yet but I will do that in future.. Hey, have you had a look at my website from your browser? If not then please do visit…
Thanks for sharing this information Falak. It was really very useful. Would keep it in mind when planning to go for a paid version 🙂
Yea, u need to research more than thinking about upgrade.. wishing you luck in advance.
Thank you for sharing this information. I didn’t know the difference. I’ll watch for your transition.😊 Good luck and Happy New Year!
Thank you, it’s the best gift that I could give to myself. I hope everything goes well.
I am sure it will. Just stay flexible if you encounter difficulties. Sometimes challenges are meant to strengthen us.😉
When typing in the email address to follow you.. it’s hard to see it at least it was for me.. wishing you the best..
My follow me button is very small.. I know. I need to learn more plugins and technical things. Thank you for letting me know about it.
All the best dear!!! And congratulations for a new leap! Way to go. 🤗😘
Thanks a ton..
Best of luck!
Needed luck..Thank you
Best of luck with your new venture.
Thanks