DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORDPRESS.COM AND WORDPRESS.ORG

WordPress isn’t just wordpress it is wordpress.org and wordpress.com – So what’s the difference other than the three letters on it’s address. Ok, so this is a commonly asked question by many and it’s quite simple.

WordPress.org is a a software that is extremely popular all over the world and powers almost a ⅓ of all sites on the internet. It is easy to use and offers free themes and plugins, offers technical support in a chat format and also gives you regular updates on things to look out for. It offers excellent hosting options and will also support the optimisation of your wordpress website.

WordPress.com is a website that has some similarities to wordpress.org but with limitations in place. It runs everything on it’s own server, it has much fewer site options available compared to wordpress.org and it is more of a commercial site than wordpress.org. This may be an option even though it does have its limitation because it is completely free.

The next big question about the two options above from many of our clients is whether or not you can switch from one to the other. The answer is yes you can, if this is something you would like to discuss with our customer care team then please do get in touch today.

Choosing between wordpress.org and wordpress.com is the first decision you will need to make when choosing to build your website. Once that decision is out of the way then the fun can begin with getting your site optimised.

• Speed is one of the most important factors for so many reasons. If customers land on your site and it is slow it is not going to help you grow your business. You will also be penalised by google, bing and any other search engine. If it is fast you will be rewarded with a higher ranking in the search results. Speed and load time is extremely important, we can discuss how this works if you would like help from Online Marketing Help.
• Yoast SEO Plugin can help with your web presence even further – If you need help getting yoast to work for you then simply get in touch with us and we will discuss how it works and can benefit your business.
• Online Marketing help can help make your website multilingual with WPML language plugin.
• Finally, what you have built your website for is lead generation, it doesn’t matter in which form it comes or how you use leads within your business what is important is that you get them and can manage them effectively, WordPress offers some fantastic plugins to add functionalities such as contact us forms and so on.

• You may go into the back end and make changes to your website for any of a number of reasons such as updates on plugins or themes etc. When you do this a Syntax error will likely show, if you need help removing this then let us know at Online Marketing help .
  “500 internal server error” we have all seen this all to common error pop in some shape or form. When this happens it could be for a number of reasons, with this error code its some trial and error in order to find out exactly what has gone wrong. It will take some patience or better yet a technical expert can be requested to get this issue solved. Do not just ignore this error and hope it will go away as it won’t.
• Has the Admin panel gone blank? Do not panic if this has happened. It happens more times than you may be led to believe. This issue can be fixed quite easily so please get in touch if you would like Online Marketing Help to help you.
  Have you locked yourself out of your user account? This is also very common. If you have locked yourself out but need a little helping hand getting back in then just let us know we have a technical team on hand that can help fix this issue in no time.
  You may have an issue with one of the functionality plugins in wordpress such as woocommerce if this does happen there is no need to panic. If you are having issues with themes or plugins becoming unresponsive then we can also fix this or disable and then download it again to solve this problem.
• Making your website is important but making your website secure is even more important. An unsecured website is like leaving your front door open with a diamond sat on the doorstep. It’s not a safe way to run a website and can leave you open to malicious things happening. Unsecured websites cause stress for you, it can also damage your reputation and even affect your status with google.
  Even the strongest and secure websites can become vulnerable and be attacked with malicious malware. We recommend even if you are going to do it yourself rather than using one of our technical experts that you set-up automatic wordpress backups.
• Last but not least you may find an unexpected error appear that says Error Establishing Database Connection” If this does happen then it’s an easy fix. You can fix this by; a) Finding out what the error means b)Troubleshooting the error.