For my personal website I went with WordPress.com and a .blog domain. Honestly, the main reason was simplicity. I didn’t want to deal with servers or installing WordPress manually at this stage. I wanted something that just worked so I could focus on learning the platform and on the contribution side of the program. WordPress.com takes care of hosting, security and updates, which made it the easiest way to get started.
Setting it up wasn’t completely smooth, though. At first the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org confused me, since both have “WordPress” in the name but work in very different ways. I also took longer than expected to choose a theme and get the site looking the way I wanted, especially the menu and the homepage layout.
The thing I learned most is how much WordPress relies on blocks. Once I understood that almost everything (text, images, headers, even full page layouts) is built with blocks and patterns, editing the site felt much more intuitive. From my perspective, it’s a really powerful tool for people like me who don’t want to write code for every small change.
This is just the beginning, and I’m curious to see how the site grows as I document my contributions throughout the program.
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