50MB upload limit

WordPress.com limits the space available for uploads to 50MB. They would really like it if you just paid for an “upgrade” to access more drive space – it’s not expensive, but there are other options.

• pay WordPress.com $20US per year to get 1GB of upload space
• use separate file upload services, including (but not limited to):
  • DivShare.com (all file types)
  • OurMedia.org (all media file types)
  • Flickr.com (free or subscription-based – photos and images only)
  • YouTube.com (free, video only, up to 10 minutes in length)
  • Google Video (free, video only, any length)

No Custom CSS

You aren’t able to modify the CSS to change things like fonts, colours, or images used by the theme. This is generally not an issue, but if that level of customizability becomes necessary, a WordPress.com upgrade is available which allows custom CSS for $15US per year.

Limited filetypes allowed for uploading

For security reasons, WordPress.com only allows uploading of files using the following extensions (and there is no workaround, except for using an alternate file hosting service for those files).

• .jpg
• .jpeg
• .png
• .gif
• .pdf
• .doc
• .ppt

Limited media embedding

WordPress.com will remove the object and embed HTML elements from content, meaning you can’t just paste a media service’s “embed this” code to place a video or other piece of media within a page or blog post on WordPress.com. Both YouTube and Google Video are supported via a custom embed format, as well as some other services via VodPod.

No Custom Themes

Users are not allowed to edit their themes, nor may they add a new custom theme to the service. There is no workaround, while using the WordPress.com service.

Portability

Even if you get started using WordPress.com and outgrow its limitations, it’s not the end of the world. Your website is completely portable! WordPress offers an export/import function, meaning you can pack up your stuff, move to your own server, and import it there. There’s no lock-in, aside from the URL used to access the site.

2. It’s That Easy
If you’ve got any computer savvy, WordPress is easy to use. If you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. And normal use doesn’t run the risk of mucking up the design. It’s website creation for non-techies.

3. Do It Yourself
With WordPress you enter the Do-It-Yourself world. No more waiting for and paying a programmer to fix a tiny error, saving you time and money.

4. Many Users, Many Places
WordPress is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. This means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

5. Climb the Search Results
WordPress also makes it easier to optimize your search engine results. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find you.

6. No WP Code hacking – If you like editing PHP files in your wordpress installation to create new functionality for your blog or showcase your PHP skills, then it is not possible at WordPress.com. You cannot edit the core wordpress files to suit your needs.

7. Survive Traffic Spikes – Get Slashdotted or Dugg with confidence as they balance your server load and keep your site working inspite of the huge increase in site traffic, whereas a shared hosting site should otherwise crash a server.

8. Spam is No Problem – Fighting comment spam is not an issue as preinstalled Akismet is blocking spam in the background. No need to pile on multiple Antispam plugins.

9. Freedom from WordPress Upgrades – An advantage of hosting here is that they take care of all back end upgrades, bug fixes and security issues. So when a new WordPress version is released, you need not go throught the WordPress upgrade routine everytime, it is done automatically without any FTP skills required.

10. Automatic Backups – They keep backing up your blog automatically and you need perform daily backups of your blog, just in case your server had a hardware failure.

1. Cheap or Free
Using WordPress for your website means it’s cheap or free. WordPress itself is free, a theme is easily under $100 or even free and you save loads of money (compare the cost of template vs custom design). Haven’t you heard? Stingy is in.

2. It’s That Easy
If you’ve got any computer savvy, WordPress is easy to use. If you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. And normal use doesn’t run the risk of mucking up the design. It’s website creation for non-techies.

3. Do It Yourself
With WordPress you enter the Do-It-Yourself world. No more waiting for and paying a programmer to fix a tiny error, saving you time and money.

4. Many Users, Many Places
WordPress is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. Which means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

5. Climb the Search Results
WordPress also makes it easier to optimize your search engine results. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find yo

Here are also not a million other files for you to upload. This system is easy to download, and easy to upload to your own personal websites. WordPress is built to W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. These features make WordPress code easier to manage and easier to render in standards-compliant browsers. Non-compliant browsers are made compliant with only a few changes.

WordPress websites also have some very positive features like themes, non-compiling changes to the website and the ability to utilize plugins. The most positive factor in the WordPress utility is that you do not need to know php. With many blogging systems you often need to know how to program. With Blogger, I spent hours embedding Google ads in the pages. Also when I made changes I had to recompile the script or “rebuild” it. This took time while I waited. Imagine how much time you can spend “rebuilding” dozens of blogs! In each blog I modified each blog and linked it to my central website. Linking blogs that get regular traffic is a technique called “hub and spoke” theory.

In this scenario, you have to see how you can arrange your blogs to produce traffic for a central website. This is an excellent tool to produce income for your business. WordPress has the potential to be the perfect tool for your business to generate an average level of traffic to a central website. The relative advantages are:

1. You don’t have to know php.
2. You don’t have to know how to program at all.
3. You don’t need to use the WordPress hosting service. Although this is offered, it is not necessary.
4. WordPress has aggregator support for standard RSS configurations. This has already been done with Atom.
5. WordPress automatically connects and configures with MySQL with virtually no effort.
6. Being built to standards increases WordPress’s longevity and future internet adoption
7. WordPress automatically imports images.
8. The WordPress template has built-in links added in the template.
9. WordPress allows for the customization of metadata.
10. WordPress allows customized styling for printing.
11. WordPress allows the administrator to design headlines.
12. WordPress allows for categories.
13. WordPress allows for customization of the sidebar.
14. WordPress allows for customized RSS Feeds.
15. WordPress allows for customized forms.
16. WordPress allows for basic blogging posts.
17. WordPress allows archiving for posts.
18. WordPress allows for contacts in the template.
19. WordPress allows for an “about” page.
20. WordPress allows for the styling lists and is built with CSS.

You can proceed with entering the desired content. Once you are ready, the new post can be published just by clicking the Publish button.

WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms out there — if not the best. It’s very powerful, can be easily extended and modified. It’s documentation is very well written and, so far, had answer to all of my crazy questions

You know what’s the best part of WordPress? With some knowledge of PHP and MySql, you can turn it into much more than just a blogging platform. After doing some HTML to WP work for Roger, I thought of one way how could WordPress be transformed into a CMS. Note the “one way”. This is not the only way for doing this, and, most likely, not the best way.

I didn’t look much, but I think that there are some nice plugins out there that can do this. But, where’s the fun in the download, upload, activate process? Nowhere!

I will show you how to change your WordPress into a CMS and it really doesn’t take much coding to achieve this! The example presented here is simple and will have a static page for it’s home page, another static page for the “Portfolio” page and the blog. The home and portfolio page will have some of own content and both will include some content from other static pages. You all most likely know the blog part

- Ease of use. WordPress is suitable for just about anybody – from the absolute novice to the advanced programmer.

- Feature-rich interface. WordPress has a rich text editor with advanced multimedia support;

- Expandable. WordPress’s community distributes a large number of modules for almost any popular website feature;

- It is Open Source. This means it is free to install, use and distribute WordPress on your site.