[dirty bunny]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

That's just Wordpress being a bastard and trying to get you to sign up for premium. The free one works totally fine, although there will be ads on your blog and it'll be [whatever your site is called].wordpress.com

Originally Posted by tw2113

Given that I use WordPress every week, I want to clarify some things. If you're going through WordPress.com, that's a service provided by a company named Automattic, who provide a website using WordPress the application. They handle all the updates/bugfixes/etc on their own, and inject their own platform-specific features.


Now, if you're savvy enough and want to host your own website somewhere, there's WordPress the web application, available from WordPress.org. Note the top level domain difference. This is the application that Automattic uses for their services, minus some of the extras that they "throw in for you". When self hosted, there's no prompts to update to premium or ads.

Ahh, thank you both for your replies. I might look into this further (I'll at least download the web app).