How WordPress Makes Money? and What it Offers?
How WordPress does make money? This is my long time doubt. I searched throughout the web but did find answer till now. Matt (WP founder) recently travelled to India for an event (WordCamp) and he had interaction with the bloggers there.
Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India. First he surprised and then answered that Automattic (Company that made WP and other products) is profitable.
Amit of labnol.org attended the camp and he shared this funny & important discussion on his blog. He explained all the products which earn money for Automattic Company. As a beginner you’re using all the products like WordPress and Akismet for free right? But once your blog start earning, you need to pay for the services. Yes, let me give you some bullet point of it.
- Blog Hosting: WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers.
- Google Adsense: Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google ads
- Akismet: If you maintain a business blog, you need to pay $50 per month
- Poll Daddy: Free poll daddy supports only double digit voting. You need to buy a paid version if you want extended features in it.
WordPress Products List: Most of the WordPress users don’t know how many products they are offering for free. Here is the detailed list of their products.
- WordPress.com: Famous open source WordPress package with 5-minute install
- Akismet: spam protection service that has proven highly effective, blocking millions of spams a day with a 0.001% miss rate.
- BBPress: Famous and free Forum software
- IntenseDebate: Comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog
- PollDaddy: Free & premier way to create Polls and surveys on the web
- Gravatar: A gravatar (globally recognized avatar) is quite simply an image that appears when you comment.
- Buddy Press: Buddy Press will extend WordPress MU, bringing social networking features to your blog
- WordPress for iPhone: The first Open Source blogging app for iPhone and iPod touch
- Themes: Free and Premium WordPress themes
- Plugins: Free plugins for your WP blogs
These are the products offered by WordPress Company called Automattic. And that’s how they earn money 
. Hope you enjoyed it. Happy Blogging!
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Its my doubt too
I don’t know that polldaddy and gravtar are WP products.
Great info!
Awesome explanation man. Didn’t know some of the products till now.
Automattic acquired polldaddy recently.
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I have come to know about this through Labnol recently
That’s when I knew about it Automattic.
@TJG,
I know Gravtar is wp product.But didn’t know about Polldaddy
@Stankd,
Ya i read about that acquisition on the site.
@Arun,
Most of the people don’t know about automattic and some other products
Hei Lax,
This is already posted in LabNol by Amith. Hope u find it
Many ppl think that Open Source products can’t make money.
@Inkapoint,
Dude,
Yes i mentioned the same in 3rd paragraph. Hope you read that
Hi lax,
Many web apps you’ll find are free, but for premium service it will increase. One product that offers a premium service is Skype.
@James:
Dude,
Skype and WordPress are entirely different and there exists no need for comparison i think.
Did Amit told all those things? I didn’t knew that you have to pay for Akismet if your blog is popular.
@Agent001,
Dude its not for popular blogs. Its for business blogs… Like for example Yahoo,AOL and etc…are using WP.
May be for personal blogs earning tons also
I didn’t see ads on WordPress.com blogs. Is this correct?
Good analysis Lax. I agree with you that most of the people don’t know about all these services.
@Stestuff,
Even i never noticed ads on WordPress free host blogs. But don’t know where they place them.
There are many tricks they can use to show them
hmm, I never wonder how WordPress make their own money and i don’t even care about that.. but now this is good info man..
WordPress makes more money from themes and Hosting it self. As he shared its not that easy to get hosting from them.
They won’t accept normal blogs to host with them.
I was thinking that how they earn? after reading this post. now i know it.
Thanks.
i read a lot about making money with WordPress or with other blog platform. We just need discipline.
Awesome stuff. Keep up the great work.
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
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IntenseDebate a WordPress production !! Really cant believe! I know that they have joined Automatic but I think they are not solely WP product! btw I am using intensedebate on my blogspot blog and it is simply great
This is why I am very eager to have WordPress blog. I want to have a profitable blog which I make a long term internet business.
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Cool post, i wish to use bbpress,
of course Matt (WordPress) earn a lot by having a wordpress, 99% bloggers use wordpress..
WordPress is the number 1 in my opinion