WordPress is a great website platform because of its power and flexibility. But when you’re planning your website, there’s the choice of a hosted WordPress site (what we do) and getting a sub-domain on WordPress.com (example: mickeymouse.wordpress.com). There are choices to make, so let us help you with the decision.
Here’s what WordPress.com offers:
- It’s free, and setup is pretty easy.
- You don’t have to maintain your site and it’s always available.
- Backups are done automatically.
- You’ll get extra traffic from being a part of the WordPress.com community.
Here’s what WordPress.com doesn’t offer:
- WordPress.com limits you to a blog only.
- Although you can customize your site, you can’t use a custom theme.
- You can’t modify the coding behind your site.
- You can’t upload WordPress plugins, which can limit the visibility, speed and reliability of your site.
In addition, having a subdomain on WordPress.com can be detrimental to your branding, and limit the flexibility of your site.
The advantages of a self-hosted WordPress site (or, what we give you):
- You get a fully-fledged website, including galleries, a contact page, social media integration, even a blog if you choose. The sky’s the limit.
- You get your own domain name (which we renew for you).
- Your site is professionally installed and designed before we train you how to add and delete content yourself.
- You can upload custom-designed themes.
- You can ask us to install any WordPress plugins you wish, which can improve the speed, visibility, functionality, and stability of your site.
- We can customize the code for you (HTML, CSS and PHP script) if needed.
- We keep an eye out on WordPress and Theme updates, and we install them for you.
- We do periodic backups of your database.
- Most importantly, you can turn to us if you have and questions or problems.