{"id":259,"date":"2022-11-06T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:56:16","slug":"wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;WordPress.com vs Self-Hosted WordPress&#8217; &#8211; OBT (&#8216;On-the Blog Training&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WP-com-vs-SelfHost-WP-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WP-com-vs-SelfHost-WP-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WP-com-vs-SelfHost-WP.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><u>Not positive yet<\/u>, but it&#8217;s &#8216;<i>Feeling<\/i>&#8216; like I am slowly moving away from both WordPress.com &amp; the <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxnewbiesince1996.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Linux Newbie \u2013 since 1996<\/i><\/a> blog!? Just purchased a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger<\/a> Self-Hosted plan on 10\/27\/2022 (<i>for testing<\/i>), and then purchased a 4-year Hostinger Self-Hosted plan &amp; started the <a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/\"><i>Karmi&#8217;s Musings &amp; Tech<\/i><\/a> blog on 11\/2\/2022. See <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxnewbiesince1996.com\/web-hosting-info-n-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>Web Hosting Info \u2018n Ideas<\/b><\/i><\/a> page for more info. It has been a fast ride to this point!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training\/#Block_Editor\" >Block Editor<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training\/#Back_to_the_Free_plan\" >Back to the Free plan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training\/#WordPresscom\" >WordPress.com<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/wordpress-com-vs-self-hosted-wordpress-obt-on-the-blog-training\/#Conclusion\" >Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Block_Editor\"><\/span>Block Editor<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This all basically started when WordPress.com decided to replace the Classic Editor wid the Block Editor, and left the bloggers wid few choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) accept out decision<\/li>\n<li>2) pay $300 &#8216;n \u2b06\ufe0f<\/li>\n<li>3) &#8216;<i><b>Git Along Little Blogg<\/b><\/i><i><b>ie<\/b><\/i><i><b>s<\/b><\/i>&#8216;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe title=\"Roy Rogers : Git Along Little Dogies ( 1940 )\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2cFji4CmHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, I paid the $300 a year price, <i><u>twice<\/u><\/i>, for the Business plan. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxnewbiesince1996.com\/2022\/10\/28\/have-downgraded-from-business-plan-to-premium-plan-some-of-the-content-is-in-the-queue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>downgraded<\/b><\/i><\/a> from it to the Premium plan, <i>5-months early<\/i> because I didn&#8217;t want to pay $300 for a third time, and thought I might need to make some quick decisions soon. WordPress.com seems to be &#8216;<i>Silently<\/i>&#8216; trying to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">force<\/span> encourage $300-540 users to move away from the Classic Editor, or else they are not maintaining it properly&#8230;<i>maybe more on that in another post<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Back_to_the_Free_plan\"><\/span>Back to the Free plan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I am probably going to renew my $18 linuxnewbiesince1996.com Domain Registration before 3\/8\/2023, but downgrade to the Free plan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3GB-of-space.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3GB-of-space.jpg 595w, https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3GB-of-space-300x101.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have only used about 400MB&#8217;s out the 3GB&#8217;s on the Free plan. I have no problems WordPress.com, and will still maintain my WordPress.com blogs&#8230;tho I may drop the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbrotherreport.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Big Brother Report<\/i><\/a> blog at some future point. That is a new political blog, so may just move my political posts back to the Ol&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/swamphermit.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>Swamp Hermit&#8217;s Report<\/b><\/i><\/a> blog that started in 2004.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"WordPresscom\"><\/span>WordPress.com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Lots of work over at the Hostinger Self-Hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/\"><i>Karmi&#8217;s Musings &amp; Tech<\/i><\/a> blog, but more fun than I have had in years, and I <i><u>am always having lots of fun<\/u><\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>During this short time working on the OBT (<i>On-the Blog Training<\/i>) tests &#8216;n experiments, I have found the entire surroundings over at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostinger<\/a> Self-Hosted site much more suited towards a &#8216;<i>Hermit<\/i>&#8216; like humble me.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.com is probably too much about &#8216;<i>WordPress community<\/i>&#8216;, &#8216;<i>WordPress Happiness Engineer<\/i>&#8216;, Social platform, Stats, followers, &#8216;<i>F<\/i><i>ollowing<\/i>&#8216;, &#8216;<i>Likes<\/i>&#8216;, comments, &#8216;<i>Herd Mentality<\/i>&#8216;, etc. for me now, i.e., <i>for my <\/i><i><u>primary Blog<\/u><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Never really thought much about it before now, but blogging wid Hostinger&#8217;s Self-Hosted platform suits an individual like me. For example, I had contacted their support wid a <u><b>LONG<\/b><\/u> list of technical questions like &#8211; &#8216;<i>can I pay someone there to edit my favorite WP Theme, the Rowling, wid a Theme File Editor so that it works like it does on WordPress.com?<\/i>&#8216; That was probably the easiest of my questions. Support respond wid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;d like to note <b>that we specialize mostly in website hosting<\/b>, which means that <b>our website development help is limited at best<\/b>. However, we&#8217;re still more than happy to answer all of your questions related to our service and send you some tutorials\/guides, so you can learn everything yourself! \ud83d\udcaa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I also recommend that you get in touch with <b>a qualified developer\/programmer<\/b> who will help you better understand your website&#8217;s code as well as help you in developing your website. You can find developers for a very reasonable price on sites such as Fivver. \ud83d\udc9c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can also get this help for free at StackOverFlow.com, where you can ask professional developers for help! You will get some decent advice on programming best practices there \ud83d\ude0a<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please do let me know if something&#8217;s not clear, I&#8217;ll be glad to help you out \ud83d\udc9c<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Support covered all my questions in that reply, but I made a mental note at that time that Hostinger is a &#8220;Self-Hosted&#8221; platform, and I had a feeling of freedom wid that thought.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I was going to make a series outta this, but then realized that I should post it on my new <a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/\"><i>Karmi&#8217;s Musings &amp; Tech<\/i><\/a> blog. I may do a &#8216;<i>Reblog<\/i>&#8216; of it from Linux Newbie blog, but there seems to be no WordPress.com reblog button on my Theme or an option for one on my Admin Dash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already had to add two dropdown menus (<i>for Categories &amp; Tags<\/i>), and plan on doing an Archive dropdown menu when my second month rolls around here. I&#8217;m editing Theme files &#8216;n uploading folders to other folders in those Theme files, and haven&#8217;t broken anything yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the Multipurpose Blog Pro <b>Child<\/b> Theme instead of the Multipurpose Blog Pro Theme because it is safer to do editing in. I don&#8217;t know all the techs about &#8220;Child&#8221; themes, but throughout my many searches that term has come up often when editing a theme is mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Having <b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fun,_Fun,_Fun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FUN FUN FUN<\/a>!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Fun, Fun, Fun (Remastered 2001)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_JasiSpmfsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not positive yet, but it&#8217;s &#8216;Feeling&#8216; like I am slowly moving away from both WordPress.com &amp; the Linux Newbie \u2013 since 1996 blog!? 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