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                  1. This is gross and users should opt-out if they can but I'll just emphasise the difference between WordPress (the software) and WordPress-dot-com (the hosting service). You can always host your own WordPress site without being tied in to WordPress-dot-com's gross weirdness. @QueenOfRats/1762614147609706585
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                  Since I work developing publishing systems, I thought I'd share some options for moving away from WordPress.com given their AI data scraping and Matt Mullenweg's transphobic meltdown.
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                Option 1: host your WordPress site elsewhere. There's plenty of places that will host a WordPress site for you that aren't WordPress.com with cPanel interfaces to make it easy to set up. GoDaddy, Reclaim Hosting, 123 Reg, just a few off the top of my head.
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              For migrating your WordPress content, I recommend All-in-One WP Migration by ServMask (wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/). I use this for exporting and importing WordPress sites and it works perfectly, giving you everything in a nice .wpress file. Better than WordPress' native export.
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            Caveat: I don't know how plugins work on WordPress.com and whether it's easy to install your own plugins or not.
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          Option 2: host your WordPress site yourself. I run a server that hosts half a dozen WordPress sites and even have a legacy site on my own server.
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        I pay £9 a month for my server (which runs my old WordPress site and about a dozen other sites like simonxix.com, carbon.simonxix.com, reviewsperminute.simonxix.com) and £19 a year for my domain name. WordPress.com costs £20 a month to host one site.
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      I also run some web services for myself on there: Joplin instead of Evernote; Podfetch for listening to podcasts in my browser; a Sandstorm instance; and at one point Plex Media Server.
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    There's plenty of places to get your own VPS (Virtual Private Server) that can run WordPress (and indeed WordPress Multisite for multiple sites). I use vps.net/ but should probably switch to a green hosting company.
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      Option 3: use some other software for your site. I personally find WordPress very clunky and restrictive and prefer static site generators like Hugo or Jekyll. But stuff like Ghost (open source Substack) and PubPub are also great for blog-style websites.
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