Comments on: WordPress.com, TypePad, Storage, and More http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-7277 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:40:35 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-7277 Sandra,
Thanks for stopping by, and for the question.
Go to the Dashboard for your WordPress.com blog. In the sidebar, click on Upgrades. It will show you the available upgrades, and the price of each.
It sounds as though the space upgrade might be for you. Even if you don’t need 5GB of storage (and most of us don’t), the space upgrade is required to store MP3s at WordPress.com.

]]> By: msandyd http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-7276 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:05:49 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-7276 I had not intended making a new blog when I signed up for WordPress. But now I am wondering if I should transfer the data from my old blogs to WordPress sites. I want more storage and be able to put mp3 and other music on the site. Please tell me about how to upgrade from free to paid.
Sandra

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]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-5048 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:48:10 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-5048 Mike, thanks for your thoughtful comment. In response to your question, I’m pretty sure that self-hosted wp blogs aren’t part of the .com tagiverse.

]]> By: kymike http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-5037 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:14:12 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-5037 I have to say, I (much) prefer TypePad (as far as hosted blogging is concerned), but WordPress.com has one very big advantage:

Tagging, which can connect new users to your blog through common tags in other blogs hosted on WordPress.com.

In general, your blog gets a built-in social network with WordPress.com. For example, when you login to your WordPress.com account, you are then logged in and able to leave comments in *any other* WordPress.com blog – no need to register or anything (the login part may exist with TypePad as well, but not the tagging, as far as I know; bear in mind, I’m just getting started with blogging.)

To me, this is the one (and only) true advantage of WordPress.com.

Other than that, TypePad seems much more configurable (MANY more widgets) and has nicer built-in templates (imho). I’m still debating about going with TypePad instead (I use it for my business blog, started about two months ago).

I read somewhere that one blogger saw much more traffic on their WordPress.com blog vs. TypePad, and they speculated that the difference was due to the tagging feature of WordPress.com.

Can self-hosted WordPress.org blogs connect with WordPress.com tagging, by the way?

]]> By: drmike http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4428 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:15:24 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4428 I say it was just a promotion trick to show they were offering all that space but it’s pretty much unusable. Like those webhosts who offer gigs of space for pennies.

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4387 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:49:38 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4387 Anil, thanks for your comment. I too find it hard to see how anyone is going to use 3 GB, given that audio and video require the space upgrade. For example, I was at 2% of my allocation before the increase, and now very much doubt I’ll ever get to 1%.

]]> By: Anil http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4386 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:07:27 +0000 http://changingway.org/2008/01/21/wordpresscom-typepad-storage-and-more/#comment-4386 I agree with the apples and oranges thing, though I do think it’s weird to have 3 gigs of space that you can’t put videos or audio in, because what else takes up that much storage?

One suggestion I’d make here is to note Widget support. Most TypePad users have at least one widget installed, and that’s probably because every level of the service supports it and there are hundreds of them; There are only a handful for WordPress.com, and they count stuff like a list of your own posts as a widget.

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