WordPress.com began as a blogging-focused platform but now supports most website-building needs, including e-commerce, social media integrations, drag-and-drop editing, and mobile presentation. Duda and Wix are positioned as more capable, all-around website builders, while WordPress.com is presented as a good low-cost option for getting online quickly. WordPress.com is not the same as WordPress.org; it is a service from Automattic that hides server code and provides hosting. It offers an ad-supported free tier with storage, themes, and SSL, then paid tiers that add custom domains, more storage, fewer ads, SEO tools, spam protection, social sharing, site stats, and customer support. Higher plans add monetization and expanded capabilities.
"Although it started life as a pure blogging play and still includes many blog-focused community features, the updated WordPress.com now handles most website-building needs-including e-commerce, social media integrations, drag-and-drop functionality, and mobile presentation. Editors' Choice winners Duda and Wix are more capable, better all-around website builders. But I found WordPress.com to be a good, low-cost option for people who want to get online relatively quickly and don't mind its limitations, such as a subpar image editor and no phone support."
"From the outset, it's important to make clear that WordPress.com is not WordPress in the commonly understood sense. Rather, WordPress.com is a service from Automattic Inc. that uses code from WordPress.org, the popular and free, open-source blogging and site-building platform. In fact, WordPress.com hides the server code and handles hosting. That's why it resembles website builders more than sites built using the open-source WordPress.org code, which requires you to sign up for a WordPress hosting service."
"Like Wix, WordPress.com has an ad-supported free account level. This tier includes 1GB of storage, dozens of themes, and a preinstalled SSL certificate. Next up the ladder is the Personal plan (starting at $9 per month or $4 per month if billed annually), which adds a custom domain name, a limited selection of themes, and 6GB storage. It removes WordPress ads, but not all WordPress branding. Personal lacks monetization options, but includes SEO tools, spam protection, social sharing, site stats, and email and live chat customer support."
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