WordPress is open-source and free.Since WordPress is free, how they are earning money ?
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg shared how WordPress makes money:
1. Web Hosting – WordPress offers web facilitating administrations to huge brands like WSJ's All Things D, CNN, TechCrunch, Time.com and that's only the tip of the iceberg. The valuing for WordPress VIP Hosting begins at $15,000 every month.
2. Google AdSense – Free online journals facilitated on WordPress.com might at times convey Google AdSense promotions/ads and the advertisement income goes to WordPress. The Google promotions will just show up if all the accompanying three conditions are met:
The guest is not utilizing Firefox program.
He has logged out of his WordPress account, in the event that he has one.
The alluding source is not a WordPress fueled web journal. So on the off chance that you arrive on abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com, you won't see any Google Ads.
Indeed, even with every one of these conditions, the income created from serving Google AdSense advertisements on WordPress.com facilitated online journal may at present be noteworthy as they do around a billion site hits for each month.
3. WordPress themes – The WordPress themes directory offers premium themes that cost anywhere between $50 and $100. These GPL compatible themes are developed by third-party WordPress developers and Automatic gets a commission per sale.
4. Premium Accounts – While anybody can have a web journal on WordPress.com for nothing, they charge you a settled expense in the event that you need to purchase extra storage room for your sight and sound records or in the event that you wish to utilize custom web space rather than the default wordpress.com sub-area. These are premium components.
There are unverified reports that WordPress might soon permit clients to include AdSense in their free websites for a membership charge.
5. Web Host Referrals – WordPress.org recommends of rundown of outsider web facilitating organizations where you might self-have your WordPress blog(s) for a charge. Presently all these are referral connects so Automatic gets a commission for each deal.
Truth be told, this facilitating referral framework may be to a great degree beneficial for Automatic in light of the fact that on the off chance that you hunt down "WordPress Hosting" on Google (an extremely focused watchword state), the initially supported connection on the Google results page is paid by WordPress itself and it says – "Main 5 WordPress Web Hosts – Chosen by the engineers of the WordPress blogging programming".
6. WordPress Support – If you need assistance with WordPress (or WordPress MU) however the free bolster gatherings aren't settling the reason, consider subscribing to the Support Network of Automatic. The WordPress advancement group will offer you some assistance with solving issues identified with your WordPress framework and the reaction time can be as low as 6 hours. This administration is essentially for Enterprise clients why should willing shell out a $2.5-5k every year for backing.
7. Survey Daddy – I am not certain if Matt talked about this but rather Automatic likewise gives a paid form of Poll Daddy where you can have boundless number of inquiries per study and there's no Poll Daddy marking in your surveys or studies.
8. Guided Transfers – If you wish to move your web journal from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, Automatic offers an administration called Guided Transfers to help you with the exchange. They charge an one-time $119 expense for the exchange.
9. VaultPress – Should you wish to naturally reinforcement your WordPress web journal to the cloud, the VaultPress administration from Automatic can offer assistance. With bundles beginning at $15 every month, they will reinforcement your WordPress blog progressively and will likewise advise you of potential security issues.
10. VideoPress – The VideoPress plugin for WordPress gives you a chance to host recordings and sound documents all alone site. There are no restrictions on data transmission or term of recordings, the recordings are served without promotions and it bolsters HD playback too. Begins at $60 every year.
11. Automatic Kismet – You don't regularly see spam in your blog entries in light of the fact that everything gets sifted via Automatic Kismet (Akismet for short), the phenomenal spam security module
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