WordPress.com

WordPress.com

Infobox Website
name = WordPress.com
url = http://wordpress.com/


commercial = Yes
type = Blog hosting
registration = Optional
owner = Automattic
author = Automattic

WordPress.com is a WordPress-powered weblog hosting provider which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It runs WordPress MU, a version of the original software that allows people to create and manage their own weblogs without requiring the time, money and technical knowledge involved in setting up WordPress on an ordinary hosting account. It is financially supported via the use of Google Adsense banners and paid upgrades.

The site was initially launched as an invitation-only service, although at one stage, accounts were also available to users of the Flock web browser [ [http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/10/20/wordpresscom-partners-with-flock/ Blogging Pro: WordPress.com partners with Flock] (retrieved Monday May 29th 2006)] . However, accounts can now be registered by anyone, and there are over 3.5 million individual blogs with the service [ [http://www.wordpress.com WordPress.com] (retrieved 22 February 2008)] . Registration is not required to read or comment on weblogs hosted on the site, except if the blog owner wanted to do so; but registration is required to own or post in a weblog. All the basic and original features (current as of May 2006) of the site are free-to-use. However, some features (such as a CSS editor, domain mapping, and storage upgrades) are available only to users who pay for them [ [http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/09/28/whats-free/ WordPress.com Frequently Asked Questions] (retrieved Monday May 29th 2006)] .

Controversies

In August 2007 Adnan Oktar, a Turkish creationist, was able to get a Turkish court to block internet access to WordPress.com by all of Turkey. His lawyers argued that blogs on WordPress.com contained libelous material on Oktar and his colleagues which WordPress.com staff was unwilling to remove. [ [http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/08/19/why-were-blocked-in-turkey/ Why We’re Blocked in Turkey: Adnan Oktar] WordPress.com, August 19, 2007.]

On June 4th, 2008, a blog post by Mike Wendell, a former support forum moderator, reported that a series of previously reported splogs on WordPress.com were still in operation. [ [http://drmikessteakdinner.com/2008/06/04/looks-like-wordpresscom-has-gone-prospam-1/ Looks like Wordpress.com has gone pro-spam] Dr. Mike's Steak Dinner, June 4th, 2008.] Wendell subsequently had his account blocked, and was blackballed by the Akismet spam service.

References

External links

* [http://wordpress.com WordPress.com website]
* [http://faq.wordpress.com WordPress.com FAQ]
* [http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/wordpresscom-vs-wordpressorg/ Comparison of self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com]


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