Comments on: Why Did You Leave WordPress.com?

By: Jennyjinx

Jennyjinx — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:46:16 +0000

I use WP on my self-hosted blog and think it’s the bees knees. I don’t think that I could use WordPress.com because of the limitations concerning plugins and themes (I love to play with plugins and new themes- which means I usually break my site, which is actually fun for me). I have a WP.com account, but that’s just for Akismet API. I think that WP.com is right to keep ads and sponsored posts off the site. If someone wants to do something like that it cost $6 a month to do it from their own domain.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:25:12 +0000

@Vienna:

Why not let WordPress.com bloggers display ads? For a variety of reasons, the most important one for me is that not all blogs nor bloggers need ads. If you want ads on your blog, pay for self-hosting out of the income you make blogging.

The real reason, though, is that WordPress.com bloggers, the community you refer to, voted to NOT have ads. They like having an ad-free blogging community. They voted, WordPress.com listened. Still, enough of the minority who want to blog for free and make money from the process will get rewarded as WordPress.com is slowly working on a way to get you to pay to make money with your blog. Details coming soon.

As for why bloggers can’t write “about” sponsored posts, they can. They just can’t get paid for writing sponsored posts, again, because the majority of WordPress.com bloggers said that’s not okay, and being paid to blog about things you know nothing about is a little unethical. Isn’t it?

There are rules in place to avoid and prevent splogs here, and they still get through. It’s a full time job to stop splogs and abuse. That’s still not the reason why.

Before laying blame, please always check the facts on the ground and read the rules and FAQs. Never assume. It makes you a better blogger and gains you respect.

By: Vienna

Vienna — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:26:43 +0000

Left becuase i honestly think that wordpress.com is being selfish and unfair. Bloggers are the ones who build the WordPress.com community and WordPress.com is benefiting so much from its bloggers. Why not reward their bloggers by letting them benefit from being a member of this community? Why not let the bloggers write about sponsored posts. Why not let bloggers display ads? If they fear that splogs would swarm their site, they could at least develop some sort of rules to avoid this.

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:43:12 +0000

Bustedsoul: I don't know which version of WordPress you are working on. This article pertains to WordPress.com. If you can't find your posts, are you using the Publish button or Save? Did you install WordPress yourself? There might have been a problem. If you are having trouble with the full version of WordPress, you can find help on the WordPress Support Forums. If you are having trouble with the free version of WordPress.com, then help is found on the WordPress.com Forums.

By: Bustedsoul

Bustedsoul — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:56:23 +0000

Just wanna ask , why is it that when post somethinq , the post can’t be found or somethinq ? & when my I added new categories , all categories showed 0 even when I categorised my posts under them . It’s all not updated . I seemed to just can’t post anythinq . =(

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:25:26 +0000

I want to make sure that people read Aarggh, Wordpress.com users READ THIS!! by Cornell of Ubuntu - the Newbie's Blog. It is wonderful! Thanks, Cornell.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:35:31 +0000

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By: remotecontrolceo

remotecontrolceo — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:20:34 +0000

Lack of flexibility to add plug-ins, not enough themes to choose from, but most of all I had too many blogs and it was easier to condense everything into one blog I had total control over.

By: Neeraj

Neeraj — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:01:17 +0000

I know of 4 people who moved from wordpress.com.

2 of them moved to individual hosting using wordpress because of lack of customization here. Third one moved to TypePad for which he did not gave any reason and the fourth one got bored of blogging per se.