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Figure 6.6
HTML isn't
usually funny,
but the result
can be.
caution
The terms of service for WordPress.com prevent commercial activity. Many online commercial activities begin
with cutting and pasting HTML code into your web page or blog. Resist the temptation to engage in commerce.
You might find some borderline activities you can get away with, for a greater or lesser period of time, but the
WordPress community won't like it. You're likely to find that you need the support of the WordPress commu-
nity to visit your blog, link to your blog from their blog postings, show you how to improve your blog, put you
on their blogroll, and so on. Also, eventually, you might get an official “cease and desist” request from
Automattic, or simply find the offending feature removed from your blog.
There are no such restrictions on commercial activity for blogs based on the WordPress software supported by
WordPress.org. If you want to engage in commerce on your blog, move to WordPress.org. If you aren't quite
ready to do that yet, continue on WordPress.com, learning how to run a good and useful blog, and then move
to WordPress.org when you're ready. Chapter 11 tells you how to upgrade.
Using the Text Widget
In Chapter 3, we described the widgets you can use with a WordPress.com blog in detail. We left
out the details on two of the best widgets because they need more explanation to use properly. The
Text widget is covered here; the RSS widget is described in Chapter 8.
