WordPress Review — The Best for Creating a Unique Blog
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world. It’s free to use and the potential to create is boundless.
You can blog for free at WordPress.com. The company hosts your site and gives you a subdomain. The downside is that it’s supported by running its own ads unless you upgrade your plan.
Alternatively, you can download the platform for free at WordPress.org and use it on a site you host yourself. Hosting isn’t free, but if you go with a high-quality WordPress host like Hostinger, the whole thing winds up being less expensive than going with a similar website builder.
The payoff is that you can build whatever you can imagine with your WordPress blog.
The whole WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org concept can be a little confusing, but both options work on the same platform. Personally, I prefer WordPress.org, because you are unrestricted in how you can bend and shape the platform to make it look and function exactly the way you want it to.
Plus, using WordPress.org and paying a hosting provider for web hosting tends to be a more cost-effective option than paying for a WordPress.com plan.
Either route you choose, it starts with choosing your WordPress theme. Think of it like a template that formats your whole site as opposed to just one page. There are a ton of amazing free themes to promote your content. These will keep your blog on brand and help you curate posts for your readers.
To add more functionality to your blog, there are tens of thousands of WordPress plugins you can use. These will help with SEO, site security, setting up newsletter subscriptions, and so much more. Lots of useful plugins are free.
There are also premium plugins and themes you can buy to add rich capabilities or custom looks for your site.
Since WordPress is open-source and ridiculously popular, there is an active community that is constantly building new features for today’s challenges. These are just some of the reasons more people choose WordPress for their blog:
55,000+ plugins to extend the functionality of your site
Thousands of free and premium themes
The Gutenburg block editor
Advanced user roles and permissions
Powerful media management
A massive community of experts
Infinite design control
You can get plugins and themes to take your site wherever it needs to go, and if you can’t, there is probably someone working on a solution right now.
With Wix and Squarespace, you are paying for an all-in-one platform. With WordPress, the platform is free, and you can purchase what you need à la carte. Choose your own mix of plugins and themes to get exactly what you need.
Turn your blog into a social media forum or host member’s only content behind a paywall. Anything you want is as simple as finding the right plugin.
Wix is going to be easier to use, especially at first, but WordPress is by no means difficult.
If you start building out a really complex site with a lot of plugins, sure, it’s going to be more work to maintain, but you’ll also have a blog that’s much more unique than what you could assemble on Wix.
In terms of day-to-day editing, though, WordPress is a breeze. The Gutenberg editor simplifies that process of arranging and refining your blog. You can work in HTML or edit visually, block by block, and effortlessly add content from your media library.
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