Review of: Wordpress.com blog hosting

5/5 (minimum 1)

by martinp on 29 Jun 2007

For a (mostly) free service, this is remarkably powerful. You can quickly and easily set up one or many blogs for yourself, including multiple-author blogs or private blogs. You get a very nice stats engine and a wide array of sidebar widgets, making it easy to personalise the blog. Every few days the developers add another feature, whether an in-built audio player, photo or video sharing, LaTeX for equations(!), draft management...

You can get almost all the functionality for free. There are many designs to choose from, and they are highly customisable, but if you pay a small annual fee you can customise the style sheet directly. You have to pay for disk space if you want to upload files, but they have no problem with you using your own space to share files.

Something that's particularly neat is that you can export (or import) the entire blog in XML format, making it easy to transfer to or from a rival service. I can't imagine changing to a rival any time soon, though.

I've had a number of experiences of trying to set up community blogs using my own software, but having it hosted this way definitely makes things a lot easier.

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Wordpress.com blog hosting

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