Price: free-$60+ per year
Requirements: online
Company: Automattic, Inc.
Tags: free blog, wordpress hosting
WordPress.com Features
WordPress.com lets you set up a free blog managed by the developers of the WordPress software.
Features include:
- Build a free website.
- Premium upgrades.
- Connect your WordPress site to social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn.
- 190+ themes.
- Custom design.
- WYSIWYG editor.
- Mobile apps: iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Nokia, and WebOS.
- Export your content to another blog or platform.
- Manual export or guided transfer.
- Export links.
- Backups.
- Upload images from your computer.
- Insert an image from the web.
- Media library.
- Zemanta for your blog.
- Custom sharing buttons.
- Import tool works with all major blogging platforms.
- Dashboard is available in 50+ languages.
- Keep your blog private or share your thoughts.
- Akismet spam.
- Invite as many contributors as you'd like for a multi-author site.
- Add images, audio, and video.
- Drag and drop multiple images into a page.
- Content management system.
- Static home page.
- Add as many pages as you like.
- Designate parent pages.
- Change the order of pages.
- Nest pages to create sub-menus.
- Display posts on different pages by creating category pages.
- Add custom links to the navigation menu.
- Page attributes module allows you to set page parents and templates.
- Disable comments.
- Pages widget and search widget.
- Create a contact form.
- Register a custom domain.
- Add email.
- Change name servers.
- Custom DNS.
- DNS zone records.
- Domain management.
- Map a subdomain.
- Map an existing domain.
- Move your domain to another host.
- Transfer a domain to another registrar.
- No ads upgrade.
- Sends your published blog posts to several places automatically via Ping-o-Matic! and sitemaps.
- Set up non-administrator users.
- Maps and graphs present your stats.
- See the total views to your site for the day, week, or month.
- Views by country.
- Views by referrers.
- Top posts and pages.
- Views by search engine terms.
- Views by clicks.
- Custom fonts.
- Custom colors.
- Custom CSS.
- Custom header image.
- Import from Posterous.
- Windows Live Writer.
- Third party applications.
- Post by email.
- Post by voice.
- OAuth authentication.
- REST API.
- oEmbed provider API.
- Photon Image API.
- VideoPress.
- Sliding Panels: move between new and existing content.
- Visual editor.
- Widgets include:
- About.me.
- Akismet.
- Archives.
- Author Grid.
- Authors.
- Blog Stats.
- Blogs I Follow.
- Box.net.
- Calendar.
- Categories.
- Custom Menu.
- Delicious.
- Flickr.
- Follow Blog.
- GoodReads.
- Gravatar Profile.
- Gravatar.