Who Owns WordPress and How WordPress makes

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WyattCarter 9/4/2021 11:16:14 AM

Who Owns WordPress and How WordPress makes money?

WordPress is the most popular and widely used platform
for blogging and developing content management applications. (CMS). It is an
open-source framework that is created and run by Automatic Inc. The company's
name is a play on founder Matt Mullenweg's first name.
WordPress is an open-source
content management system which means licensed under GPLv2, which means anyone
can use or modify the WordPress software for free.

 

How WordPress makes money?

1. Website
hosting services

WordPress is providing hosting services to big companies
and also a lot of small traffic website owners using the hosting services.
WordPress have also the VIP hosting plans that are

Worth a big amount. So overall WordPress is making big
profits in its hosting services.

 

2. Google
AdSense Services

There are so many blogs that are running on the WordPress
platform, they are listing google ads on their website. So, if all the
conditions are there to meet with google AdSense to make revenue from it. The
Money goes to WordPress.

 

3.WordPress Premium Themes

WordPress is providing so many free themes for website
development and at the same time, it also offers a large number of premium
themes (Paid themes). Those themes may have been developed by
WordPress themes developers across the
world, But WordPress will get a considerable amount of commission when it got
purchased by someone.

4.WordPress Paid Accounts

WordPress Is offering hosting services to small companies
that they can use their domain names to load the website as it is rather than
as a subdomain in wodrpress.com. Basically, it means customers can point their
domain to WordPress hosting. Most WordPress websites choose the WordPress
hosting service because it handles the websites very well.

5. Hosting Referrals

WordPress also recommends other third-party hosting
solutions to customers. So, for example, if some search for best-hosting
services for a WordPress website, WordPress will recommend their sponsored
third-party hosting details. So basically, for each referral, they will get
paid from the hosting services who got the lead.

6. Customer Support

WordPress gives enormous support to their customers in
various ways, like technical support, hosting support, etc. So, if you need
help on solving website-related issues, or creating new features WordPress has
a technical support team and also there is a support system that you can
subscribe to for a monthly/annual basis. Since the free forums don’t fix all of
your problems. There is a revenue.

7.WordPress guided transfers

So, if you are planning to move your blog/website from
Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org, WordPress provides a direct service called
guided service. This is a premium service; you have to pay for it.

8. Video press Plugin

WordPress provides a premium plugin called Video press.
By using this plugin that you can upload videos and audio files to the website.
There is no bandwidth limit and video or audio durations. This is one of the
most widely used video plugins on WordPress websites.

9. Automattic Kismet Plugin

This is one of the best spam protection plugins available
on the WordPress platform. When you activate the premium version of the same
plugin You are assured there won’t be any spam content in your blog posts as it
is filtering by the plugin provided by WordPress. It is recommended that you
can use the free version for non-commercial websites but install its premium
version for commercial and corporate Websites.

10. WordAds Service



















































This WordPress based advertisement service is provided by
Auttomattic, which is available for WordPress websites/blogs. This can provide
Ads from different brands like Google, Amazon etc. 


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