WordPress, as a platform and as a community of users, has grown in two main areas:
- The first one is gathered around WordPress.org (https://wordpress.org/), the native, main website of the WordPress project
- The other is WordPress.com (https://wordpress.com/), a commercial platform providing both free and paid blogs to users
Essentially, WordPress.org is about developing the platform itself, sharing new plugins, discussing the technical aspects of WordPress, and being all techie in general. WordPress.com is a commercial website where bloggers can meet with each other and publish their blog content under the wordpress.com subdomain (for example, something like paleorecipeslog.wordpress.com is a subdomain).
In Chapter 2, Getting Started with WordPress, we will discuss the differences between hosting your blog on WordPress.com versus working with...
