Mental block on org vs com

  • wrmweb

    (@wrmweb)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve read the com vs org page twice and still can’t decide which I should use for two different sites I’m setting up. Can someone please help?

    Site A: full website (not just a blog); personalized url (ie, not @wordpress) is already owned; and it must be editable by people at multiple locations.

    Site B: full website; personalized url is already owned; and will be maintained by only one person.

    Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 6 months ago

    You can use either.

    Seriously.

    Use .org if YOU want to heavily customize your site with a ton of special plugins, tweaks, themes, etc, knowing that you’ll be responsible for updating them all to the latest release AND be on top of security issues.

    Use .com if you just need a basic blog and don’t want to deal with the hassle, knowing you’ll be limited to what’s available.

    Thread Starter wrmweb

    (@wrmweb)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you.

    And if I don’t want just a ‘basic blog,’ but a full site, ie, the opportunity to create multiple pages with, eg, photos, generally static info, does that change the answer?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 6 months ago

    No, that’s still a basic WordPress blog 😉 Unbasic would be BuddyPress or your own forums, etc.

    And best of all? If you decide you want more than .com can offer, you can move pretty easily to self hosted! It’s all a preference thing.

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