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Today's question is from Bill Clancy and Bill says you recommend using WordPress to start a website. Do you mean WordPress.org or WordPress.com or does it matter? These appear to be two very different products from the same company. Which one do you use and why?

That's a great question, Bill. We get that question a lot because when people start looking into building a website, the first place they go is WordPress and then all of a sudden they see these two options.

WordPress is basically a platform that allows you to organize content and create ways to display that content, which is a website, basically.

And there are two ways to use WordPress. You can use it at WordPress.com. And what

WordPress.com does, it's like free hosting. You basically get to use WordPress on their platform

and you can create a website for free. But the problem is you're going to be limited on a lot of

the functionality at WordPress.com. You're not going to have access to all the different plugins

and things that you need to use. You're going to be subject to their terms and conditions. And your domain name is really not going to be exactly what you want. It's going to kind of look unprofessional. It's going to say like, you know, my website's coachexo.com. So like if I had done that on WordPress.com, would say coachexo. Wordpress.com or whatever. So basically WordPress.com

just gives you a free place to start. that on WordPress.com, it would say coachexo. wordpress.com or whatever. So basically,

WordPress.com just gives you a free place to start a website, but you're going to be severely

limited in the long run when you're running an online business. WordPress.org is basically

where you download the WordPress software, which is open source and free, and you can

go create your own website at another hosting company. It's called self-hosting. You can go to a place

like hostgator.com, which lets you create a website on the WordPress platform, and you're going to be

able to build your website and do whatever you want. You're going to be a lot more free to install

things like Genesis, which is a theme that goes in WordPress and create a more robust site. You're going to have

access to tons of plugins like shopping carts and all sorts of things to be able to really do it.

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