This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. Yesterday, I started the convoluted process of swapping my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. As you may remember, I’d finally got to the point where I was ready to import the files of my blog. Everything seemed to be okay, until…. Big ...more

 This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. It was finally happening: I was about to embark on the trip of my dreams—and I wanted to write all about it. I decided that a travel blog, shared initially with family and friends, would be a great experiment to see ...more

This guest post is by Anurag Bansal of Techacker. Owners of WordPress.org blogs don’t get the flexibility to post by email through a WordPress service. It’s very surprising to see that such a popular platform doesn’t offer a native way of creating blog post by sending an email—especially since WordPress.com owners ...more

This guest post is by Matt Hooper. When you first start looking at building your own blog, you are going to be inundated by the different options that are out there. After considering all your options, hopefully you’ll come to your senses and realize that WordPress is your best option. ...more

In the last week, Automattic (the team behind WordPress) released a nice little WordPress plugin bundle called Jetpack, which gives your self-hosted WordPress.org blog some of the functionality that was previously only available in the hosted WordPress.com-type blogs. This won’t appeal to all bloggers—especially not those who have been at ...more

Moving a Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is something I’ve had a lot of questions about – today Jeff Chandler shares tips on how to do it. Everyday it seems like I find a story or two from a cities local online newspaper which delves into the topic of blogging ...more

This guest post is by Karol K of Online Business Design blog. Blogging is not only about putting together 400-2,000 words of text and publishing them on your WordPress site. As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general). ...more

How is blogging in 2023 different from being a blogger five years ago, ten years ago, or more? Is it still even worth starting a blog in 2023?

This post is part of the ‘What we wish I knew when I first started Blogging’ Series. In this post I’ll share readers comments on the topic of Blog Hosting, Domains and Platforms as well as some of my own experiences and advice. There is always a diversity of opinion ...more