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WordPress.com Ad-free
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Price: free-$60+ per year
Requirements: online
Company: Automattic, Inc.

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.