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From hoppy ales to smoky stouts, great beers come in many shades and flavors. Great beer blogs, too, take many forms, whether you are sharing recipes from across your kettle or reporting on a new find at the local pub. Whatever your blogging goals, WordPress.com, a free blogging platform, offers near-endless options to customize and personalize your blog, and signing up takes no longer than a couple of swigs.
“WordPress.com isn’t just the best way to post an article – it helps me share and discover recipes and stories,” says Derek Springer, our resident home brewer/beer writer (sure, he writes code too). “I can also use WordPress.com’s Reader to track and follow my favorite blogs, [and] share the cream of the crop on my own blog”.
Indeed, along with Derek, hundreds of beer aficionados around the world have found ways to share their passion for beer through their WordPress.com blog. From enthusiasts like A Year of Beer, and A Female View to brewers like Stout Fellow!, we are excited to see the lively, active beer blogger community that has emerged (dare we say fermented?) on WordPress.com
If joining our community sounds like something you want to try, bringing your blog over is a click away – we’d love to clink steins with you when you’re here.
WordPress.com is thrilled to sponsor the 2013 Beer Bloggers Conference. We look forward to hearing your stories and blogging tips, not to mention discovering new beer blogs to follow.
Beer blogging and ‘zines…..a connection? Just dropped a mention to WP in my ramblings….
http://www.thenoisethatwemade.co.uk/2013/07/ruminations-on-european-beer-bloggers.html
Hi, Jacob!
There’ll be a couple of us from Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) here today at the Expo, and milling around at the conference too.
Would be more than happy to help you get setup with either a self-hosted WordPress.org blog, or indeed at WordPress.com should you so desire. 🙂
Hanni,
I can’t access my account or even login to the forums to post a support request…which means I have a blog I can’t update or use; PLEASE HELP! user: dubhelix32 site: brewerslog.wordpress.com
Anthony – best way to get a hold of wordpress ASAP is to contact one of their support engineers, which you can do by visiting this site: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
Good Luck!! Let us know if you don’t get through to someone and we’ll try and help more.
My webhost offers 1 click installs of WordPress and other blogging platforms. Stayed with WP because of the ease.
I use WordPress.com and absolutely love it. It’s both very easy to use and sophisticated enough to accommodate a professional, high-traffic site.
One thing for bloggers to consider is the difference between a self-hosted site, using the WordPress framework (available for free at WordPress.org) and the WordPress.com version which is hosted on the WP servers.
An important note for those looking to monetize their blog… WordPress.com does not allow use of AdSense, Yahoo, Chitika, TextLinkAds, and other third-party advertising.
Learn more about the differences between .com and .org here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
And find info on advertising here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
I actually have been thinking heavily about switching platforms, and wordpress is one I’ve been looking at. Right now I use blogger, but I’m unhappy with their stock layouts, and customizing one in HTML isn’t exactly my strong point. I did it a bit on the site I have now, but I’m not 100% OK with it.
Im just nervous to pull the trigger. I already purchased my URL through blogger, so im not 100% on how to make the move seamlessly and keep my URL and not lose traffic and so on and so forth