Wordpress.com is a stellar service no doubt and it surely will do better as time goes by but what puzzles me is that why are taking so long to find ways of generating revenue. Is it because they want to make sure that the service itself is stable before adding more features?

The best blog platform ever made! Go Wordpress!

It is very easy to set up - and there are many SKIN options - so that a personality can be given to the blog. They even include basic server-side statistics

The only minor flaw, is the lack of individual customizable design options. And for REAL GEEKS, the lack of ablility to include client side tracking stats for those who really need thorough stats.

But still, a very valuable service, indeed.

It is quite easy to set up - also, there are many SKIN options - so that a personality can be given to the blog. They even include basic server-side statistics.

The only minor flaw, is the lack of individualized customizable design options. And for REAL GEEKS, the lack of ablility to include client side tracking stats for those who really need thorough stats.

But still, a very valuable service, indeed.

Well done to wordpress…
I use them for everything… Easy to setup, easy to use and looks smart. Hope they hurry up and let us use our own domain names on their hosted service…

The AOL search data says that nearly all the wordpress searches done for domain names that contain the word wordpress. Since the others aren’t domain.moveabletype.com etc they would be under represented in google trends.

Akismet, at least for me, is so good that I barely realize it exists. In all this time only one piece of spam has made it past its filters.

Markus
The better comparison is Wordpress.com to TypePad or Blogger, not MT, this is the hosted version of WordPress, not the standalone tool we all use (like MT is)

You may want to look at what we’ve done with Wordpress.
http://www.perthnorg.com.au

I’ve been using wordpress for about 4 months now, and I can’t say enough good things about it. It’s easy to use, the skins are great, and the plugins allow me to customize pretty much everything.

Wordpress is a great product, I even use it fo my blog and almost all the other bloggers I know use it as well.

But does it automatically tag content? Have a back-end wiki? A feed reader? Allow community posting?

No, I use http://mailspaces.com for blogging - UI’s not as customisable yet, and it lacks some of the “traditional” blogging tools like trackback, but then it was designed as a group/wiki/RSS tool with natural language linkage, so it’s a bit of a square peg/round hole situation, but to just be able to e-mail in my blog entries from anywhere and have it tie up with my wiki with automatically generated tags from the actual content of the message, it does the job of knowledge management far better IMHO (but I would say that, I do run mailspaces )

As good as Wordpress.com is, when it comes to standalone tools, I’m MT (Movable Type) all the way. I just feel like I get better options for customization with MT, especially with the use of custom index pages and templates. Of course, I use MT more as a ‘content generator’ than as a blogging tool so my comment might be a bit off base here:)

Wordpress is ideal for high-end bloggers. My commitment comes from Battelle’s excellent interview with Schneider, http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/1...../index.htm
Long live Wordpress.

Automattic is headquartered in San Francisco and has employees around the world. WordPress is open-source software with lead devs in San Francisco and San Jose. Your last paragraph should reference Automattic.

Automattic also receives revenue from its Support Network, with WordPress support contracts starting at $2500 a year.

With Wordpress gaining traction, I can see why Six Apart may have released their personal edition of MovableType for free yesterday.

Thos WordPress signup numbers may be inflated. Last time I checked, in order to use Akismet you needed a an API key. The only way to get such a key was to create an account and set up a blog at wordpress.com even if you weren’t going to post on it or use it.

Wordpress is very lite and powerful. I use it to build a news sharing site http://www.huobang.com Gathered thousands visitors per day within weeks.

Wordpress is just awesome! I use it on my blog. I also just learned to skin it and made my new site. http://dodesign.fh-net.com comments on the skin are apppreciated

Techcruch

We recently switched from our blog from TypePad to Wordpress and have been really, really happy with the results. We now have more control over the display, functionality and look & feel of the blog. Just need to keep working on the content

Thanks guys for the kind comments.

Michael Martine, when you sign up for WordPress.com you get a choice to get just a user account (for example commenting or an API key) or get a blog, not users. The number on our front page is just blogs. There probably were some “dead” signups before we introduced that feature a month or so after we went public, but activity stats indicate it wasn’t more than about 10-15k blogs.

I’m like everyone and have many blog ideas, but can’t be buying domain names and hosted server space for every crackpot idea (ok not every crackpot idea - I do filter the cream).

So I thought of using free blog spaces to test ideas, if I’m feeling the vibe really good I’ll buy a relevant domain name/host space and provide forwarding links.

So I set up a wordpress.com blog, worked a good day on it, then discovered two big problems that caused me to cancel it and go to blogger.com: lack of plugins and adsense.

I use wordpress on my other existing blogs and love it. Lack of plugins is a huge disadvantage on wordpress.com because plugins are half of wordpress’s power and usability.

The banning of adsense ads was the deal-killer.

Hey I might only make a couple bucks off it but blogs are about dreaming, and if they won’t even allow me to dream that I could change the world then I cannot pour my energies into it.

Goodbye wordpress.com hello blogger.com I’ll still use wordpress for my paid hosted sites cuz i love it, and i’ll keep my eye on wordpress.com if they change these two things.

We’re considering ad options for the future, but for now disallowing adsense has been a huge help in keeping splogs off the system and hasn’t gotten much pushback from regular folks, only aspiring pro-bloggers. (Who should probably be on WordPress.org anyway.)

Niall - thanks for the clarification. I was just trying to keep the post simple without adding another brand into the mix.

Without a doubt, wordpress is an amazing blogging software. This site just shows the paces it can be put through with the ability to fit into so many designs and look so professional

Great read

The WordCamp event was another example of how strong the Wordpress community is - really impressive. We (sphere) get a lot of requests for wordpress widgets, etc - by far the most frequent input and requests come from Wordpress users.

Congrats to Wordpress. They do have a fantastic service.

I am a newbie in blogosphere. But, using WordPress.com as my blog engine, I found it is very easy to setup a blog. Thanks for Matt and WP.com team.

Hey guys, this message board software this website runs on, is it something i can buy for my own website or is it propriatary?

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