WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
WordPress.com is a hosting platform that makes it easy for anyone to publish online. You don’t have to download software, pay for hosting, or manage a web server. WordPress.com has hundreds of themes, and includes the functionality of many plugins, but you can’t upload your own plugins or themes.
WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, and edit the database.
Check out our support doc on the differences.
Hugs
Just wanted to thank you all at WordPress. I have now been blogging for around 5 months and enjoying it very much. I can't believe that more people are not using you --- the quality of your work is of the highest level. Friends and family are amazed at my new found "computer expert" knowledge. I just tell them that it is so easy with WordPress. Keep up the good work and thanks once again.— Clive H.
Contact Support