Domain registrations are not free. It’s an annual fee, I don’t think any company will give those out for free.
I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.
As a developer: google sites is 100% the exact same as wordpress, just looks better.
I’m not gonna slander you for not knowing the difference between a host and a content management system.
The issue seems to be that google offers a pretty foolproof experience for people with limited technical knowledge. That is not the case with the majority of open source systems.
Additionally: from what I hear, you wont get free top level domains with sites and not with other providers so please accept that you wont get this for free.
Yes, but WordPress is something you run on your server that is dynamic and database-backed. So you need to pay for and maintain the server. The closer analog would be the hosted WordPress.com service, but that is still different. Google Sites generates static HTML files and isn’t db-backed, and is fully managed.
I understand. Coming back to the comment in question:
The point is not that you can host wordpress on your system but that OP seems to be searching for a fully managed cms (or static site creation tool) but open source and for free(?).
Google is (as we know) not doing anything for free. They want the data, the market dominance and the traffic so they can make money from it.
From a usability standpoint they‘re both content management systems in which a person with limited technical knowledge can design their own sites and publish them without having to resort to third party designers.
That is why I said they’re the same. I was referring to the „wordpress is a script“ (it is not).
TL;DR: If OP wants managed, they either pay in data or in money, period. Managed wordpress (or joomla or others) is the equivalent to this service.
You want a website? https://wordpress.org/ is open source
Yes, but it’s a script you install on a web server. I want a builder that’s similar to Google Sites.
Domain registrations are not free. It’s an annual fee, I don’t think any company will give those out for free. I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.
what about wordpress.com ? (yeah, it’s different but by the same developers)
basic plan is free, yup. iirc you have to pay to ‘bring your own domain’ (vs using a subdomain off theirs’)
As a developer: google sites is 100% the exact same as wordpress, just looks better.
I’m not gonna slander you for not knowing the difference between a host and a content management system.
The issue seems to be that google offers a pretty foolproof experience for people with limited technical knowledge. That is not the case with the majority of open source systems.
Additionally: from what I hear, you wont get free top level domains with sites and not with other providers so please accept that you wont get this for free.
Have a good one.
Uh google sites is not the same as WordPress lol
Sure, feel free to enlighten me about the differences. They’re both content management systems, no?
Yes, but WordPress is something you run on your server that is dynamic and database-backed. So you need to pay for and maintain the server. The closer analog would be the hosted WordPress.com service, but that is still different. Google Sites generates static HTML files and isn’t db-backed, and is fully managed.
I understand. Coming back to the comment in question:
The point is not that you can host wordpress on your system but that OP seems to be searching for a fully managed cms (or static site creation tool) but open source and for free(?).
Google is (as we know) not doing anything for free. They want the data, the market dominance and the traffic so they can make money from it.
From a usability standpoint they‘re both content management systems in which a person with limited technical knowledge can design their own sites and publish them without having to resort to third party designers.
That is why I said they’re the same. I was referring to the „wordpress is a script“ (it is not).
TL;DR: If OP wants managed, they either pay in data or in money, period. Managed wordpress (or joomla or others) is the equivalent to this service.