Does WordPress handle advertising?

  • sjh953

    (@sjh953)


    19 years, 3 months ago

    I’m just getting started today with WP, and I’d planned to use it with my publishing business to sell PDF ebooks which I produce, and also accept ads and links from other sources.

    However, I just came across this PC World review: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128582-page,1/article.html

    Towards the end, it states: “You cannot put ads anywhere on your blog, and the software crawls when uploading large images or a video.

    WordPress is a great option for people looking to host a blog on their own domain for free. It also has a very dedicated set of users who contribute code to the product and answer questions in its forums. If you want to make money from blogging, however, you should look elsewhere for a hosted offering that allows ads, or find one of the many hosting providers that will install the full WordPress software on their servers.”

    Is this correct? Does it mean, for example, the WP won’t allow me to have a sidebar with ads, links, or whatever I want? (I’m not sure what I want yet, but I definitely don’t want to put time into learning WP, then have it fail when I add the advertising.)

    Also, what is meant by “full WordPress software on their servers”? Does this mean there is a difference between adding WP to an existing site vs… ? (my current company is GoDaddy.)

    If not, can someone suggest a program geared to supporting ads. Thanks.

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  • Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    The review is talking about wordpress.com, which is the hosted service. Apparently you can use your own domain name with the service, which is probably the source of the confusion.

    This is the site for the downloadable WordPress, which you can set up on your own server space, with most hosting packages, and do just about anything you like with: adverts, custom themes, plugins to make the site your own.

    It would have been less confusing if a different name could have been used for the hosted service…

    chasingdaisy

    (@chasingdaisy)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    I think you’re getting confused between WordPress.com and ww.wp.xz.cn and the article is annoyingly unclear.

    WordPress.com is indeed a hosted service that lets you create a WordPress blog on their servers. You don’t have access to much beyond being able to write posts. I think you can now pay a monthly fee to be able to access the templates (so that you can change colour schemes, layout and so on) but I don’t know that you can display your own advertising.

    ww.wp.xz.cn however (where you are now!) provides the free WordPress software that you can download and install on your own webspace and domain (for example, a domain name and webspace bought from GoDaddy).

    You will certainly be able to run advertising on your own hosted WordPress installation, there are many thousands of examples of people doing just that.

    Hope that makes sense!

    Thread Starter sjh953

    (@sjh953)

    19 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the clarification. As I said, I just got started investigating all this yesterday, so I’m a little fuzzy on the fine points. The article made it seem like I was missing some obvious key point. I was… but not the one I was thinking. Thanks again for the help.

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