WordPress.com
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| languages | English , others |
| operator | Automattic |
| On-line | November 21, 2005 |
| https://www.wordpress.com/ | |
WordPress.com ( WordPress ) is an online service that offers free hosting for bloggers . The service runs with the same CMS software WordPress the WordPress Foundation .
It is operated by the Automattic company. President was Matt Mullenweg , since 2018 Kinsey Wilson. Toni Schneider is the managing director. General Counsel , Paul Sieminski.
The platform was launched on a test basis on August 8, 2005 and released to the public on November 21, 2005.
As of February 2018, Wordpress.com had 409 million readers with 23.1 billion page views per month, 87.2 million new pages per month and 48.5 million comments. Wordpress.com had a global rank of 53 and a US rank of 50 in February 2018, according to Alexa .
A total of 350 themes are available for the website to make it easier to create your own presentations. Ad-free presentations are possible from € 4 per month.
criticism
The lawyer Peter Kehl, Halle (Saale) , criticized the operator in 2016 for handling cases of defamation and insult : “Automattic Inc. regularly refuses to accept German judgments for deletion. In the event of a violation of personal rights, there is currently hardly any possibility of having the judgments recognized in the USA. ”In February 2017, Kehl achieved partial success. The district court in Halle imposed a fine on Mullenweg and Schneider in the amount of 10,000 euros, as the management had refused to delete controversial allegations about a company. The decision of the 4th civil chamber of the regional court provides for ten days of detention as an alternative.
In March 2018, several hundred websites linked to terrorist organizations such as Islamic State or al-Qaida were found by Europol on Wordpress.com and Videopress.com. These site operators have been asked by Europol to delete these sites.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moritz 'mo.' Sauer: The WordPress book. O'Reilly Germany, 2014, p. 15 online
- ↑ a b David Beard: For one-time NPR and NYT digital chief, a new adventure: WordPress. poynter.org February 15, 2018
- ↑ WordPress.com: Statistics.
- ↑ Alexa: Statistics WordPress.
- ↑ Peter Kehl: Action against insults via WordPress.com (Automattic Inc.). July 15, 2016 (accessed on February 18, 2018)
- ↑ Steffen Könau: Halle lawyer wins against Wordpress. A cell awaits company bosses in Halle. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , February 26, 2017 (accessed on February 18, 2018)
- ↑ Europol identifies hundreds of terrorist sites on the Internet , Hasepost (dts news agency), March 16, 2018