Knowing the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is essential to making an informed decision about what to use to build your business website without regretting it later.
Many people confuse (or worse, believe that they are the same thing) the WordPress content manager that you can download from WordPress.org with the service offered by WordPress.com , which offers its own version of the content manager.
Well, no. It's not the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
And, as I said, making the wrong decision can sooner rather than later lead you to bang your head against the wall for not having created the website for your business with the right version.
So…let’s take a look at the key differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org so this doesn’t happen to you.
If you prefer to see and hear all these differences in the following video instead of reading them, I leave you the following video below in which I detail each and every one of them.
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How many types of WordPress are there?
What are the differences between WordPress.com and WodPress.org?
Hosting and domain
Web migration
Installing plugins
Ease of installation and configuration
Web positioning (SEO)
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What is the best version of WordPress (for an online business)?
What do you need to use WordPress.org?
How many types of WordPress are there?
If you've reached this article, you probably already know that, generally speaking, there are two different types of WordPress: WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
Although…surprise!
There is actually only one.
The only type of WordPress that really exists is the content manager that we can download freely and for free from WordPress.org.
Other packaged services from private, for-profit companies that offer WordPress as a basis for creating websites or blogs are based on this content manager.
WordPress.com is one such service. Specifically, it is a service owned by the company Automattic that offers its own version of WordPress packaged as they have decided and based on their business strategy.
In summary: the system used by both is similar, but it is not the same to use one or the other (especially when it comes to a business website) for the following reasons and differences that I will detail below.
What are the differences between WordPress.com and WodPress.org?
Actually, I have already told you the first difference before.
WordPress.com is a free, open source content management system while WordPress.com is a packaged service that uses WordPress as a base and is owned by a company.
If we start from this basis, from here you will understand the rest of the differences much better since you already know that WordPress.com is a business belonging to a private company.
Another thing you need to be clear about in general (and as a result of the previous difference) is that WordPress.com will ALWAYS be much more limited than if you use the WordPress.org version .