Sources of discouragement — and suggestions
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Dear WordPress:
I want to write in name of a what I presume is a whole category of WordPress users: people who have one account, publish several blogs with a high number of posts, and therefore use WP intensively, but do not care to “monetize” their productions.
Personally, I am Brazilian, live in Brazil, am 74 years old. Professionally, I am a retired University professor, with a history at Pitt, Cal State Hayward, Pomona College, University of Campinas in Brazil (here for 35 years). I was a consultant to Microsoft for over 15 years. That’s how I ended up at WordPress, when the Microsoft Space blogs were transferred.
As I said, I have one account (edwardkeys) at WordPress.Com and more than 30 blogs under it — about 1,500 articles, I suspect. I don’t make money with my blogs. They are simply an effective way of bringing together and making available my contribution to the cause of human knowledge and education.
Although my degrees are in Theology and Philosophy, I am reasonably knowledgeable in the area of Information and Communication Technology, where I have an “avocation”, as a competent “end user”, since 1980. But I can’t program.
In trying to improve my blogs, I have come to three sources of discouragement:
FIRST SOURCE OS DISCOURAGEMENT:
I register my domains outside WordPress (mostly on MyDomain, where registration is considerably less expensive than at WordPress). And I host or park them at DreamHost (which seems to have a nice partnership with you). I have more than 150 domains registered and/or hosted/parked altogether. For each of my ca. 30 blogs at WordPress I have a domain that corresponds to it. HOWEVER, I cannot map all of my blogs to their corresponding domains (only doing it for the five or six main ones) because you charge USD 13.00 per mapping per year. Thirty times USD 13.00 is USD 390.00 per year.
FIRST SUGGESTION:
Charge mapping per account, not per blog. It could be a fixed fee. Say the same USD 13.00 per year, but allowing the owner of the account to map as many blogs as he has in his account. Most of the mapping is done automatically, anyway. Or demand that the user do the work of mapping on your site. That would be wonderful. I, for instance, am able to do that.
SECOND SOURCE OS DISCOURAGEMENT:
My main blogs have themes for which I paid basically USD 125.00 for each one – even though I use basically the same theme in most of them. In the rest, I generally use free themes – because thirty times USD 125.00 is… USD 3,750.00!!! Add that to the USD 390.00 of the previous item and it is over USD 4,000.00 per year.
SECOND SUGGESTION:
Charge themes per account, not per blog. In this case you already charge it once-and-for all, not per year. Continue to do that. But allow the owner of the account the right to use a theme, with no additional cost, in all of the blogs in the account.
THIRD SOURCE OS DISCOURAGEMENT:
You offer the possibility of a paid account. But even to pay less than USD 2.00 per blog per month would bring the amount, in my case, to about USD 50.00 per month! I can’t afford that.
I thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Eduardo CHAVES
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