Wordpress Blog - Steps to creating question

[BoDEAN]

My wife and I started a business, and would like to make a blog to get exposure and advertise for it.

I run my own website (and own a domain, and pay to host it), so I use Wordpress 3.5.1 from wordpress.org. I also notice there is a wordpress.com website out there.

My question is, I do not yet have a DOMAIN, or a Web Hosting company for our company blog. But I would like to start creating it ahead of time. Do I want to go through wordpress.com for this, get it all designed, then later link it to my domain I pick, and export it to my hosting company whoever that may be? Wordpress 3.5.1 from wordpress.org seems like I already need a domain and/or web hosting to use this.

Thanks in advance.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Wordpress.com has a lot of restrictions, I'd rather suggest hosting the wordpress.org version on your own host on a subdomain for the time being.

A subdomain is a domain below a domain so something like "subdomain.example.com"

[Sandor]

You can run wordpress locally and do all the development and testing on your home PC.

info: http://bit.ly/18cByBe

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

You can run wordpress locally and do all the development and testing on your home PC.

info: http://bit.ly/18cByBe

yeah localhost is also a good idea only bad thing about it is that you can show the site to someone else :/

you can make the localhost site available on port 80 but that requires your pc to be on when someone wants to visit the site :p

[ACTIONpack]

Localhost it and get godaddy. I know a lot if people hate it but its really easy to setup a WordPress site

[Sandor]

Why godaddy?

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Why godaddy?

yeah I wouldn't use godaddy either :p

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Anyway to localhost it I recommend easyphp, it installs wamp and all other required software all at once and is easier to configure ^^

[Sandor]

yeah I wouldn't use godaddy either :p

Only had to use them once for a family member who needed help with their site. They'd chosen GoDaddy for some reason. Really annoying custom admin panel they have. Way back in the past my own hosting had Plesk and for the last 6 or 7 years my hosting has had cPanel. Way easier to work in them.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Only had to use them once for a family member who needed help with their site. They'd chosen GoDaddy for some reason. Really annoying custom admin panel they have. Way back in the past my own hosting had Plesk and for the last 6 or 7 years my hosting has had cPanel. Way easier to work in them.

Cpanel is the best i've used till now

Trying to remember the host that stole my domain name :p

I once had seahorsepip.com but the host was payed a few days too late for the domain name so they just sold it to a domain reseller, it's now for sale for.... $2,295 :(

So make sure to never forget to extend a domain otherwise it might be expensive to get it back :p

[Sandor]

Did it not go into a retention period?

[episode]

Localhost it and get godaddy. I know a lot if people hate it but its really easy to setup a WordPress site

No. Not GoDaddy. Any host worth its salt has 1-click installers for wordpress.

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

I use 1and1 for domain register.

And a small orange for web hosting.

They have scripts to install default, clean wordpress site, database, etc, and from there been able to update wordpress, install add-ons, etc directly from the site.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Did it not go into a retention period?

Nope, it should have indeed, but they didn't >: (

I use 1and1 for domain register.

And a small orange for web hosting.

They have scripts to install default, clean wordpress site, database, etc, and from there been able to update wordpress, install add-ons, etc directly from the site.

Almost every host has that...

But I think that we're getting oftopic lol, I don't remember that he asked which hosting he should get or where he should register domains xD