Are you using wordpress.com? Frankly I have never seen the use for wordpress.com itself and after seeing their pricing even less so. You are able to get more than adequate hosting from Afrihost for only R50 , this includes 5 subdomains so you can have your blog separate from maybe other sites you build. Full access to a simple wordpress installer with HTTPS via cpanel.
You might have a bit of a mission getting the domain pulled from wordpress.com since you would want to do that, but also consider if you get the package I am talking about on Afrihost they give you a free .co.za domain. Once a year you can pay the domain costs for your .com and the .co.za which is only like R250 a year.
Now I am not trying to sell you anything , just look at options. Why I mention this is because for R50 a month you can install all the plugins and themes you want, own your website and your content, setup as many business emails as you require. Silly things that these hosting platforms charge for.
I do not know what you mean by what wordpress does to promote content, since I have never seen wordpress promote anything so can't speak to that. Hope you have a look at some of the better options available in South Africa since companies like wordpress or the wannabe little design guy on the corner is not going to tell you what can be done on the cheap. Good luck.
@penderis I have been using the WordPress platform for more than 4 years - one as a personal blog and the other as a website. I selected the platform, and I still like it, because I don't know coding, but I have a certain amount of savvy, to set up a website, choose a theme, make use of a wide range of widgets and plug-ins that do what I need, and most importantly, I control the content and the updating - on my terms. And frankly, more quickly. For each I pay $99/a.
In terms of WP relinquishing them, it's easy to pull those: I just don't renew the subscription and they revert to a free WP blog; all I would have to do is update the links which I will have to do now that I have secured a WP blog via @vornix.
Also, one is precluded from purchasing the relevant domain names because once I relinquish them, they're not owned by anyone. When I took the subscriptions WP only offered .com and for one of them I have also been able to set up free email, using the relevant domain name using Zoho. It served my purposes well for the need at the time.
In terms of promotion, I acknowledge that it's a bit of a closed shop, but within their not small community, they do curate and promote. I've never paid it much attention because it hasn't served my purposes.
I will certainly look at Afrihost if I have a need in future, but for my most recent website, for a new business, I am using G-Suite which is working well.
Appreciate your stopping by and the advice.
Vornix. It is not a real domain, nor a suitable place to replace your wordpress.com.
It is only a subdomain. That at present, it does not even have HTTPS. Something absolutely ridiculous.
With your thought. You go from bad to worse.
With respect, @rosepac, that's a matter of opinion. Read again and you will see that I qualified what I said, based on my lack of skills and the type of platform I was looking for. I found one that was fit for my purpose, i.e. WordPress.
Similarly, I have not said that I intend relinquishing or replacing my WordPress blogs – I simply said that it could be done. In any event that would be rash decision in the short term, especially as I've not thought through their futures in relation to what they carry, i.e. the purposes they serve for me, and in relation to what WordPress offers which, I say again, for my purposes are value for money. Again, as someone not familiar with coding and much, much more interested in writing and, to some, pretty pictures, the WordPress platform is really user-friendly and suits my purposes.
Incidentally, in just under a year on @steemit and only the last few months of any real activity, I have built a following and a reputation it took me three years to build on my WordPress personal blog. I say again: from the perspective of ease and speed of posting (i.e. time), the platform is far superior to the Steemit editor.
Yes, I have understood this.
And I seemed to understand that you said that "vornix" It was a better option of the wordpress (wordpress.com?) that you had before.
Only said you; that is not an option, nor an improvement. Don´t have HTTPS and it. Is to be dead in the eyes of google and any other search engine.
That can be horrible for you and your blog.
It does not require great knowledge to create your wordpress. None of programming.
In fact any server that allows to install wordpress.org with Softaculous.
It gives you a wordpress password, just as gave it "vornix"; after paying them and making three clicks.
Much better spend your money on buying a domain.
-Sorry for my english-.
Appreciate your reply - and your English is 100% better than my Spanish. Your points about HTTPS is well made, and why I will hang on to the other blog, and probably run the two in parallel. The two communities are quite different. The second, I use as a website and am considering collapsing that entire business into another and on to that website which is on G-Suite.
Thanks again, I appreciate your considered reply.