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After you’ve gathered all your tools, you need the raw materials: the WordPress files. Getting these fi les couldn’t be easier. Simply point your browser to www.wordpress.org/download. You’ll see a box with a large link for downloading the most current and stable version of WordPress. Notice that I said the box links to the stable version of WordPress. If you like living on the edge, you can check out the Beta Releases and Nightly Builds[...]

Your other option is downloading the WordPress code from WordPress.org and installing it yourself. Because you’re hosting the blog yourself, you decide what plug-ins you’ll use, and you have complete control of all the files. What’s more, pointing a domain to your installation won’t cost you anything extra (above and beyond your Web-hosting bill and registration fees, that is). This option gives you the most control of your blog, but it does come at a[...]

WordPress.com hosts WordPress blogs for free. Hosting your blog on WordPress.com frees you from having to get your own hosting space and making sure that your Web server has the software that WordPress needs to run. It also means that your blog is ready for traffic spikes associated with popular posts. The team behind WordPress.com takes care of all the back-end stuff (patching servers, upgrading software, and the like) and leaves the blogging to you.[...]

Everyone from Lisa Kusko to Fortune 500 companies to your 12-year-old niece seems to be blogging nowadays. Blogging has gone from something only the nerdly found themselves doing a few years ago to something that your mother likely knows about—if she isn’t doing it herself. WordPress has done its part to help spread the allure of blogging by making it very easy to start a blog—and to update that blog after it’s up and running.[...]