Comments on: Thoughts on Additional Costs of WordPress.com Blogs

By: miquelduran

miquelduran — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:08:05 +0000

We are concerned about the image of our blogs. We are starting a blog on chemistry (teh International Year of Chemistry is 2011) on Saturday, so we set up a blog in wordpress, purchased a suitable internet domain name, and for just a few euros the outside view is unrelated to wordpress.com.
Good job. Enough for our purposes (catquimica.cat, Chemistry in Catalan)
Timely post.

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By: telfleur

telfleur — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:25:20 +0000

Hi Brian, long time no see :-)

I have been using wordpress.com for some time now, and I am very pleased with the services.

Sean, of course the choice of the platform depends of what you wish to offer visitors of a site. Having said that, and assuming your budget is low, I think wordpress.com makes a good candidate.

By: Sean Mulcahy

Sean Mulcahy — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:41:42 +0000

I am looking to help an Junior School to create a web presence, and I am seriously looking at WordPress as a viable solution. Looking at other school’s (paid for) websites there seems to be little functionality above what is available for free from WordPress.

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this?

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:22:15 +0000

If even 10% of your thousand institutional blogs require the ad-free add on or VideoPress or custom CSS or their own domain name then very quickly the costs mount up. I think you overestimate how much effort is involved in running a multi site WordPress service. Sure, you can shift the costs to departments by directing them to WordPress but they’ll still be there.

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