Is WordPress.com the right platform for me?
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Hi,
I’m considering going back from self-hosted to WordPress.com. Here is my situation.
(1) My Reason? (a) Got pharma hacked despite following precautions, assume .com has better security; (b) Couldn’t get MultiSite to work properly.
(2) What I want to do.
My blog is about three different things, say rats, cats, and bats. Let’s say I have the domain names rats.com, bats.com, cats.com.
What I want is to import my old blog by category (Cats, Rats, Bats) into three new WP blogs under one account (cats.wordpress.com, bats.wordpress.com, rats.wordpress.com) and domain map them to cats.com, bats.com, and rats.com respectively.
Is this possible? Will it cost $99 (WordPress bundle) + 3 * $12 (for the domain mapping) = $135?Is WordPress.com the right platform for me?
Thanks for any help. I have experience with self-hosted single WP but am a noob when it comes to WP.com.
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You need to read the Terms of Service two or three times – different rules here on what you can do with your blog. You did not say what you want to do with your blogs so we can’t guess at if WordPress.COM is a good match.
Cost – $ 12– / year – each blog for domain mapping of a name you already own. Total $ 36–.
The Pro Upgrade has a lot of parts including video and special styling options – that is for each blog each year.
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What do I intend to do with my blogs? Write, have images, try to get readers, etc. They are not commercially orientated. (For that I’m sticking with self-hosted).
I didn’t know the Pro upgrade was for each blog as opposed to each account. That’s not good.
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Each part of the Pro Upgrade is available stand alone – many people just buy the parts they really want or need.
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Thanks.
In that case, things become a lot better.
I will start off with buying 10MB of storage ($20) and domain mapping ($12) for three of my blogs with the result that total costs should be $96.
Perhaps as I recover my old SEO standings I will also pay the $30 for removing ads.
Does that sound like a reasonable way to go about things?
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Yes it sounds reasonable to me. The Pro Upgrade only makes sense if the parts you want add up over $ 99-
3 GB is the base storage per blog.
All upgrades at WordPress.COM are per blog.
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Sounds like you have a good handle on this. I’m not sure, however, if the domains can be mapped to categories: staff could tell you if they can be. Contact them at http://wordpress.com/support
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@auxclass,
Thanks. You’ve been of great help.
@raincoaster,
Sorry, I must have failed with the description.
What I will do is Export my current blog, but by the relevant categories (Rats, Bats; everything about Cats will remain in my current one).
Then I will import the WXR file containing the Rats category into a new rats.com blog (mapped from rats.wordpress.com), and likewise for Bats.
Then I will delete the Rats and Bats categories from my cats blog, Cats and Rats categories from my bats blog, etc., to avoid duplication and negatively affecting SEO ratings.
They will be three separate blogs with their own domains but manageable from one account, which is what I originally wanted to do on my self-hosted Multisite.
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Ah, I see, Yes, that should be no problem. I was thinking you wanted three custom domains on one blog, each going to that category.
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