Alle Ceambur

After seven years of using WordPress.com (and paying for three different plans), here’s what I’d choose if I were starting a blog today. *Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you sign up through my link, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I actually use and genuinely believe can help other bloggers. I’ve been using WordPress.com since I created my first blog back in 2016.

I’ve published 200+ posts on WordPress.com. Here’s my exact writing and publishing workflow, explained step by step, including a mistake that cost me 3 days. *Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you sign up through my link, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I actually use. I’m old school. I keep a notebook where I draft whatever ideas come to mind. Sometimes, while I’m commuting, an idea sparks.

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you sign up for WordPress.com through my link, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I actually use. I’ve been blogging on WordPress.com since 2019. For most of that time, traffic felt like something that just happened in the background. I’d publish content like this, people would find it, read the posts, and sometimes I’d even get job offers. Writing life was good. Then, in December 2025 a traffic drop hit me.