Comments on: WordPress.org vs WordPress.com – Which One Should I Use?

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:59:46 +0000

Right on Marc – I agree of course. I don’t think it is that much harder, and the flexibility and control you get is well worth it.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:40:11 +0000

I’ve found that by using wordpress.org, a website can be so much more flexible with the plugins and themes using your own server. It does take a lot more work, but as you pointed out with the chiropractic website, it does look really nice.

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:58:59 +0000

@micky – yes exactly. It just depends on what you want to do with your blog.

By: micky

micky — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:58:35 +0000

Thanks for the great information, Don. I guess it comes down to just what you are doing with your blog. If you have commercial purposes, you’re going to go in a different direction than you would with social intentions.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:36:07 +0000

Great Info! Thanks for the post!

By: Mary A

Mary A — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:47:18 +0000

Hi Don… your info is much appreciated
I have some names for the site now registered with Go Daddy.
The site I have in mind will sell e-books to Real Estate Brokers and Agents –
So I will have to have the ability to do that as well as paypal… can u point me in a direction that may be of help?
Thanks so much…
Have a great day… but please take a moment to remember those we lost on this date…
Take care,
Mary

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By: Keith D

Keith D — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:10:58 +0000

Thanks for the quick response Don.

It looks like XAMPP then…

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Much appreciated.

Keith D

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:05:27 +0000

@Keith D – I use MAMP on my Mac and it’s great. For the PC, I’ve used XAMPP before and it was pretty easy to get set up.

You are onto something – once you set up one of these environments you can have your own local version of your WordPress blog for testing before making changes to the live version of your site.

By: Keith D

Keith D — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:32:26 +0000

Hi Don

Any advice on setting up a local testing environment for Wordpress on your home PC?

I’ve looked at XAMPP, WAMP and easy PHP but which one would you favour.

Thanks

Keith D