Personal Website

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    hianchinlim · Member ·

    Hi,
    I consider to set up a personal website and I have the following questions:-
    1) Shall I subscribe and pay a yearly subscription to wordpress.com or wordpress.org? what is the different compare to hosting companies providing WordPress made easy such as Bluehost?
    2) With the yearly subscription, what will be my domain name? mydomain.wordpress.com? or mydomain.com
    3) How much does the yearly domain name maintainance cost in order to keep the domain name?
    4) WordPress comes with any domain privacy protection? and any other cost etc that required but not included in the monthly USD$5 – personal plan?

    Thanks.

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    torres126 · Member ·

    Hi there,

    1) Shall I subscribe and pay a yearly subscription to wordpress.com or wordpress.org? what is the different compare to hosting companies providing WordPress made easy such as Bluehost?

    WordPress comes in two different flavours: WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress. Self-hosted requires a hosting provider, such as Bluehost, but a very good summary of the two can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    2) With the yearly subscription, what will be my domain name? mydomain.wordpress.com? or mydomain.com

    All of the paid plans on WordPress.com include a free domain credit, which will allow you to register a domain name such as mydomain.com (not that specific one, but “mydomain” replaced with your own choice of words assuming it’s available).

    3) How much does the yearly domain name maintainance cost in order to keep the domain name?

    Provided you continue paying for your plan each year, the domain is always included: https://wordpress.com/pricing

    4) WordPress comes with any domain privacy protection?

    Privacy Protection is included in all paid plans: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-registrations-and-privacy/#privacy-protection

    “Currently, all WordPress.com plans include the option to register a custom domain, and we include Privacy Protection for that domain by default.”

    any other cost etc that required but not included in the monthly USD$5 – personal plan?

    You’re never required to purchase anything to run a blog on WordPress.com, nor do you need to purchase anything additionally with the Personal Plan. You may wish to upgrade your plan in the future, or take advantage of some one-time paid upgrades though, such as premium themes.

    Let us know if you have any further questions or issues. :)

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    hianchinlim · Member ·

    Thanks for your reply.

    One more question.
    Does the personal plan allow me to set up on line store and install 3rd party plug-in such as Woocommerce?

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    dkmyta · Member ·

    Hey there,

    Plug-in installation is a feature only available to Business plan members. For more information about running a store through WordPress.com please review the following links:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/store/

    Hope this helps!

    Cheers

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