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WordPress.com - Get a Free Blog Here

WordPress.com is a free blog hosting service provider. WordPress.com also runs a not-so-customized version of the software. This version allows visitors to the site to create and handle their personal blogs. It doesn’t take much money or time or any technical knowledge to set up a WordPress blog at any one of the available simple hosting accounts.

Registration

When the site was launched, it was an invite only service and only the users of web browser, were entitled to use it. However, now anyone can open an account and at present there are more than 637,000 accounts registered. On the other hand if you only want to read or make a comment on the blog which has been hosted on the site then you need not register yourself. But if the owner of the blog wants you to be registered then you may have to get yourself registered. If you get yourself registered then it is not mandatory to create a blog.

Features

You may categorize and also keep tagging your posts as you keep on writing them. There are archives which are created automatically and are based on the categories chosen by you, and your posts are added to them. This helps other members who have same interests as yours to find your post and they may subsequently leave comments on the blogs. Word press also allows you to upload any photos that you may wish to share from various services like Photobucket or and may also embed videos from or . There is a spell check online which enables you to proof read what you have written.

Wordpress.com is a very fast service and reliable too. The company has many servers in San Diego and Dallas, the two data centers, which make immediate copies of all your uploads and data. As soon as you change anything in your blog, it is immediately affected. You need not wait. The same holds true for comments. Multiple authors may post multiple comments. Blog at Word press.com support RSS. This allows people to subscribe to your blogs and update them too with the help of other services like or . You may create a complete website too because of the “Pages” facility.

As on may 2006, all the features of the website were free to use and it is planned that they shall remain free. However, Domain mapping, CSS editor and storage upgrades are the few new features which are available to the user only if they pay for them.You just need a name and a email address to blog to your heart’s content here.You have the facility of changing the look of your blogs with the help of innumerable themes which allow you to change themes whenever you wish to. All that is required is click of a mouse.

Languages

English

Address

WordPress, Inc. 4734 Stillbrooke Houston

TX 77035 USA

Contact

Matthew Mullenweg

+1 713 723 8969

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