[Hidden-tech] WordPress.com question

Mon May 27 03:26:17 UTC 2019

Just to clarify <https://wordpress.com/pricing/> re: "if WP was going to be potentially not supporting free sites anymore” :
1. WordPress.com will continue to offer ad-supported, free sites.
2. Using a custom domain (without forwarding/redirecting) has always been a paid upgrade on WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/>.
3. Shel does have the correct understanding now that to use a custom domain name while avoiding paying fees to WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/>, one must use the free WordPress.org <http://wordpress.org/> software on their own hosting service.

Greg

> On May 24, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, folks. I ended up deciding that if WP was going to be
> potentially not supporting free sites anymore, there was no advantage
> to using them. So I bought a domain and will set up a WordPress blog
> within my existing hosting partition at HostGator.
> 
> On 5/24/19, Richard Danek via Hidden-discuss
> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>> Sorry if this appears a 2nd time. Sam McClellan seem to have received it
>> when I replied (apparently only to him).
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Richard Danek <rcdanek at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] WordPress.com question
>> To: Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com>
>> 
>> 
>> I just tested Wordpress.com to see what's changed. I was able to select a
>> free site. It let me chose a name that was inserted before "wordpress.com".
>> So, the sites final name was rcdinfo.wordpress.com. I actually didn't
>> finish setting up the site. I just wanted to see where you were forced to
>> pay. *You still have the free option.*
>> 
>> You have to look for it, though. (I found it at the top of the page in the
>> description above the table that has the different prices/levels.)
>> 
>> Now, on to domain names. You can use any registrar to pick a domain name. I
>> use Google <https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/#> because they are only
>> $12/year. The price is higher for some of the newer domains (like
>> .photography). The thing is, once you have a domain name, you can change
>> its records to point to the Wordpress site.
>> 
>> Here's an example. My wife and I have a baking show that we produce every
>> once in a while. I registered "oomas.info" on Google. So, that's my domain.
>> The site is hosted on Wordpress as oomascookiejar.wordpress.com. I used
>> website forwarding to make it work so that anyone going to "
>> https://oomas.info" gets forwarded to the Wordpress site, "
>> https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com".
>> 
>> The name in the URL banner always says oomascookiejar.wordpress.com.
>> Someone might object to that. I figure that once someone lands on your
>> page, they're going to use buttons and links to maneuver. Lots of sites
>> have long URL's at that point and no one seems to mind.
>> 
>> So, free is still there.
>> 
>> (I did find one registrar that supposedly allowed you to keep the "
>> oomas.info" name in the URL throughout. It might have been GoDaddy. They
>> wanted $20/year for the same domain name registration so I said NO to
>> that.)
>> 
>> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:31 PM Sam McClellan via Hidden-discuss <
>> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, Wordpress.com does have a free account but
>>> you
>>> can't have your own domain with it. It should not require you sign up for
>>> a
>>> paid plan unless you want something that's not included in the free plan
>>> such as your own domain.
>>> 
>>> https://wordpress.com/pricing/
>>> 
>>> Sam
>>> --
>>> Sam McClellan
>>> Itabix, Inc
>>> Web Development, Hosting and Domain Registration
>>> sam at itabix.com
>>> http://itabix.com
>>> Main - 413.587.4600
>>> Toll-free - 877-7ITABIX (877.748.2249)
>>> On 5/23/2019 11:17 AM, Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, that's not an option anymore. You have to buy a plan. The
>>> cheapest is $3/month for a blogger account.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#steps-for-mapping-a-domain
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:12 AM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <
>>> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to set up a freebie blog for a community group on
>>>> WordPress.com. It would be hosted on WordPress.com and not on a domain
>>>> of
>>>> ours. But after it has me set everything up, it's requiring me to buy a
>>>> domain sand sign up for a paid monthly plan.  How an I set up a freebie
>>>> account as I've done in the past?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
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> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
> 
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