Hi David, Belated response...
WordPress.com should be an excellent option, it provides free hosting (from the US) for your WordPress sites. With WordPress you have two broad options. 1. Hosted at WordPress.com, where you have a choice of hosted themes and options, and it is all kept up to date for you. It is free hosting, some ads may be shown by WordPress. You can pay about $10 to upgrade a standard free site (yoursite.wordpress.com) to use your own domain (yoursite.com, or even aoi.com.au). 2. Self-hosted - download the WordPress software from WordPress.org (free) and install on a server of your choice - you can get shared hosting starting around $10/mth, or a good VPS (virtual private server) from $30-40mth. With a self-hosted site, you can download any of the WordPress themes or plugins - see Wordpress.org/extend and you'll get an idea of the thousands of options open to you. With this option, you'll also need to keep your version of WordPress and plugins/themes up to date. You also use your own domain e.g. yoursite.com or aio.com.au In relation to your comments, I don't see how you'd be able to use WordPress just to host comments. WordPress handles pages & posts, and provides full commenting facilities for both of these types of articles. You can also use Custom Post Types if you have different types of articles you want to publish. Overall, you may well find WordPress an excellent publishing platform for your content. Glenn Nicholas On 3 April 2012 14:51, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote: > -- Hi, does anyone have experience with WordPress? I have a lot of > science articles up on the Web (at aoi.com.au, hosted on iiNet), and > it's been suggested that I could use WordPress to quickly set up > Commenting facilities for these. > > -- I have no experience with WordPress. If I understand aright, using > it means accessing a module on your server, which holds WordPress > templates modified for the particular use. > > -- The sort of things I would like to know, are, what are the costs > for using WordPress? You don't necessarily have to use a module on > your own server, right? Are there free hosts? (I'm thinking maybe to > have Comments pages on another server, while keeping the main articles > on the aoi domain). > > Yours in blissful ignorance..... > > David Noel > 2012 Apr 3 > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
