Comments on: Don’t Buy WordPress – It’s Free

By: Blog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself « Lorelle on WordPress

Blog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself « Lorelle on WordPress — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:10:30 +0000

[...] WordPress is free. While some may charge to install and setup a WordPress site, and there may or may be be WordPress [...]

By: Disclosure Now Required on Blogs, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites « Lorelle on WordPress

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:39:41 +0000

[...] WordPress is free. Most WordPress Plugins and Themes are free. There are paid Plugins and Themes available, but many of us are tired of seeing ads stream through our social lifestreams, including commercial promos and pay-per-tweet for WordPress Themes, Plugins, and commerical WordPress products and services. Not all of these are legitimate. Some have been found to link to malware and suspicious sites unrelated to anything WordPress. After too many unfortunate encounters with such links, I’ve learned to no longer trust them unless they come from trustworthy sources. [...]

By: Stephen Hopson Interview with Lorelle on Wordpress, Part I of IV

Stephen Hopson Interview with Lorelle on Wordpress, Part I of IV — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:01:23 +0000

[...] Again, I approach my talks with the premise of “breaking and remaking” the subject matter. For instance, I love to talk about WordPress as an amazing free program that gives anyone in the world a platform upon which to take their soap box. Either on the free WordPress.com hosted blog service or with the free WordPress self-hosted version, anyone can have their say. [...]

By: Joni Mueller

Joni Mueller — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:25:31 +0000

@Andrew

It’s for web marketers who profit from making large numbers of content blogs on different topics – For THOSE people, it’s invaluable.

Good to hear it. Then Huynh or Cooper won’t mind ponying up our very modest license fees. And while we’re at it, Andrew, why don’t we call a splog a splog, hmm?

By: Joni Mueller

Joni Mueller — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:20:41 +0000

Oh, I found out about this guy when I was Googling for some of our themes. More theme authors whose themes are bundled with his package should be annoyed than are. He’s got four of our themes bundled with his product for sale. We’ve sent him a C&D letter and his choice is to stop bundling our themes with his paid package or pay us a royalty fee. (Heh, everything has a price, right?) As much as copyright notations are plastered all over that web site surely they appreciate the irony of what they’ve done. Gah. But.. as long as there is someone out there willing to shell out nearly $150 for this stuff..

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:41:55 +0000

Please, tell me you are kidding or that you just didn't read the article? For the FREE full version of WordPress to run on your paid host server (can't help you there) go to WordPress. For the FREE hosted version of WordPress, which has a few limitations but the more than 1.4 million users don't seem to mind, sign up for a free WordPress blog at Wordpress.com. For the rest, read the article on where to find FREE help and support.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:04:37 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ve been looking for a link like this one. However, WHERE do you get this FREE WordPress software? Someone told me that you have to BUY it. I’d like to know, because I want to learn how to customize the css in my own blog and learn how to create them for other people. THX.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:49:29 +0000

With all due respect, I don’t think you know what you are talking about…

WordPress Elite is not an upgrade of a wordpress software at all… it’s not claiming to be a better version of wordpress or any such thing.

It is a control panel from which you can easily manage the installation and setup of hundreds of WordPress blogs across hundreds of domain names..

It’s not for the every day blogger, in fact such a blogger would definitely not want to pay money for it… it should have been clear from the sales letter that this isn’t what it’s meant for. It’s for web marketers who profit from making large numbers of content blogs on different topics – For THOSE people, it’s invaluable.

WordPress elite is a fantastic piece of software for the purpose it is designed. Check your facts before you make such a vitriolic post on your blog.

Andrew

By: helioscope » Up And Running

helioscope » Up And Running — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:48:48 +0000

[...] had free & paid versions with restricted functionality in the free version. Since this doesn’t appear to be the case I’d definitely look at it again in a few months, particularly given the feature list and [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:19:34 +0000

Lorelle,
Thanks for your article.
The comments, especially the one from david, were also helpful.

But (as far as I understand) you have misunderstood something:

WordPress Elite is not being marketed a a paid version of WordPress.
There is no “paid version” and “free version”.

WordPress was and is free.

Elite is an additional software that adds funcionality to WordPress by allowing you to manage several WP blogs at once. For people running more than a dozen blogs this might seem a viable tool.

Anyway, from david’s response, I’m abstaining from purchase – as apparentl it is an unsupported -and likely obsolete- tool.

best,
Greg