So you want an author website, you’ve decided to use WordPress, but then you get stuck.

You’ve heard that there are two types of WordPress site – a wordpress.com site or a self-hosted site, sometimes referred to as a wordpress.org site.

The two platforms are very similar in that they both use the same content management system. You’ll see the same admin screens and have a lot of the same functionality.

But there is a difference between them.

In this article for the Alliance of Independent Authors, I go into the difference between the two in detail and help you decide which one to pick.

I hope it’ll help you get started.