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WordPress.com vs. Self-Hosting
- 1. WordPress.com vs. self-hosting
- 3. lunch
- 4. questions
- 5. WordPress.com vs. self-hosting
- 6. WordPress.com vs. self-hosting
- 13. features
- 14. self-hosting • (almost) complete control • any plugin • any theme • customized code
- 15. WordPress.com • limited control • plugins/features selected for you • 100+ themes & premium options • no code customization
- 17. self-hosting • (almost) complete control • any plugin • any theme • customized code
- 18. WordPress.com • limited control • plugins/features selected for you • 100+ themes & premium options • no code customization
- 19. WordPress.com • early access to new WordPress features • built-in community of millions • WordPress.com-specific features • Publicize - push to social networks • Email subscriptions/post-by-email • Writing Helper
- 20. support
- 21. self-hosting
- 22. you
- 23. WordPress.com
- 25. cost
- 27. $100/year
- 28. self-hosting • a domain of your very own • shared system resources • no WordPress-dedicated support
- 29. WordPress.com • a domain of your very own - $17 • design customization - $30 • no ads on your blog - $30 • money to spare
- 30. $0/year
- 31. free
- 32. self-hosting
- 33. WordPress.com • a something.wordpress.com domain • 100+ themes to choose from • hosting on the WordPress.com grid • dedicated WordPress support
- 34. What’s right for you?
- 35. What do you want?
- 36. self-hosting • sandbox • custom plugin/theme development • the ultimate in flexibility
- 37. WordPress.com • niche blogs • experiments • personal blogs • small business sites
- 38. have and use both
- 39. moving
- 40. working together
- 43. jetpack.me
- 44. happiness bar
- 45. WordPress.com vs. self-hosting
- 46. questions
Editor's Notes
- welcome and intro (keep it short)\n
- first things first\n
- last talk before lunch - will try to be done early\n\nnever come between a WordCamp and food\n
- questions at the end, at lunch, and at the happiness bar\n
- title of the talk\n
- what you may be expecting - a competition\n
- like a team sport\n
- or a boxing match\n
- or a fight\n
- it’s more friendly than that\n
- like shaking hands\n
- or hugging it out - both are useful, both are awesome\n
- let’s talk about features\n
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- you may think that these limits just knock WordPress.com out of contention for you - why would you want less?\n\nless can be more\n
- plugin conflicts, self-inflicted problems from changing things, hunting to find that code you mistyped or misplaced\n
- the environment is controlled\n\nthis is another way to say that you don’t have to worry as much\n
- there’s even additional stuff on WordPress.com that goes above and beyond stock WordPress\n
- here’s a key difference - what happens when you need help?\n
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- there’s a cost comparison involved, as well - what are you getting for your money?\n
- for ease of comparison, we’ll use American dollars\n
- from an informal poll of colleagues and friends, this is the average cost of a year of shared hosting, which is what most people will use for their WordPress blog\n
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- otherwise known as - FREE\n\n(next slide)\n
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- you can move from one to the other any time you want using WordPress’s built-in export and import tools\n
- self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com can also work together\n
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- come to the happiness bar - we’ll talk\n
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