New to wordpress. Can you completely own a wordpress site.

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    brandnewguy12 · Member ·

    Recently i been interested in starting my own site using wordpress. I have some important questions

    1) Can you completely own a wordpress website. (for example, if you make a site using wordpress can you still own it? as far as the domain name?, the work you have put on the site, etc.)

    2) how much of your site would wordpress own?

    3) how do you make profit off a wordpress owned website?

    4) What are the most successful sites using wordpress?

    5) Does all the work you put on a site gets deleted if you decide to change your template or theme?

    6) how much did you invest to use wordpress? did you pay for your domain name?

    What do you recommend i do before i use wordpress.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    1) Can you completely own a wordpress website. (for example, if you make a site using wordpress can you still own it? as far as the domain name?, the work you have put on the site, etc.)

    You own the domain name as long as you keep renewing it on time. You can attach it to your blog here or anywhere on the net. Any original creation that would normally be covered under copyright, eg original writing, art, custom software, would all still be yours. The original theme you use her is obviously NOT yours, but adaptations to that theme via the CSS upgrade are yours.

    2) how much of your site would wordpress own? What do you mean by “site?” Do you mean contents? None. If you mean framework, software, etc, all of it. This is covered in the Terms of Service.

    3) how do you make profit off a wordpress owned website? You find something that people are willing to pay you to do, and you blog about that. Then people hire you. Sometimes there are artists and authors who are allowed to sell their original creations via a WP.com blog, but it’s not optimized for ecommerce. Additionally, blogger initiated ads are not allowed here.

    4) What are the most successful sites using wordpress? Icanhascheezburger, CNN, Time…there are quite a few.

    5) Does all the work you put on a site gets deleted if you decide to change your template or theme? Only the work you put into customizing the CSS, if any.

    6) how much did you invest to use wordpress? did you pay for your domain name? I pay for my own domain. I think I have the No Ads upgrade on one of my sites, too.

    What do you recommend i do before i use wordpress.     Familiarize yourself with the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, familiarize yourself with some copyright basics (the EFF is a good place to start), read the terms of service and http://learn.wordpress.com, and clearly set out your goals for blogging. If they include ad revenue or ecommerce, WordPress.com is not the place for you.

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    derickjacobs · Member ·

    Considering your on WordPress and they control your files and such like FTP, per say, that kind of stuff you cannot access — which is great because not everybody is familiar with all of that stuff and sometimes that can lead to site crashes or being offline all together.

    You can easily invest some time into your blog and make some money from it. However, on WordPress.com they do not allow any third party ads from say, like, Impactradius.com or Amazon’s affiliate program (just two examples). WP has a program they have for their members that benefits those whom have large audiences (that final decision to put you in that program is up to WP) I write for a blog that has an awfully big audience, and WP still has not granted them access to the WPad program situation.

    Long story short, to make a WP blog profitable your best bet would be to find a topic you know you like because eventually it turns into allot of work and can be fun if you’re dedicated.

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