Wordpress Answers

I suspect there are more than you think… only they’re not on WordPress.com… instead, they’ve installed the open-source (and thus, free) WordPress software on their own servers. You get a lot more freedom that way, more themes, more widgets, more freedom in the sorts of things you can include in your posts (scripts and Flash as well as HTML).

So to answer your question, yeah, I have an account at WordPress.com, but no content (just for the sake of exploration and tinkering, really)…

Then I installed on a free hosting provider with no ads, again mainly just for the experience, but especially because I’m also building an interactive online course all about WordPress. The first lesson is how to use an auto-installer on a free web host to get WordPress up and running. Then next lesson will be how to manually upload the files, create a database, etc. Eventually there’ll be everything from building custom themes and bots, to marketing and promotion and generating revenue with ads and affiliate programs (all stuff you can’t do on WordPress.com).

Here’s the “other” WordPress, again, bare-bones, but this time with a couple of interesting add-in experiments… the ability to play embedded MP3 files with a Flash player….

Finally, here’s the first lesson in that course-in-progress that I was talking about (just log in as a guest if you want to take a peek)…

Hey, I use Wordpress. See:

And I’ve always found a huge community using it (in fact, I think, it might be the blogging software with the greatest number of users.)

Have a look at their forum if you’re needing a WP friend:

Good luck!