Self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com

In this book, we will be discussing the self-hosted WordPress platform. WordPress.com is a commercial web site, powered by WordPress, that allows users to easily sign up for a free blog site. While WordPress.com is great for dipping our toes into the world of WordPress, it does not offer the rich features and extensibility of a self-hosted WordPress installation. For the same reason, this book focuses on the self-hosted WordPress platform, available at WordPress.org.