Business plan

Choose the Business plan to create a supercharged WordPress website with advanced security, developer tools, and everything else you need to host a professional website. This guide explains what’s included in the WordPress.com Business plan.

The Business plan gives you the following:

• WordPress hosting.
• Everything included in the free version of WordPress.com.
• Everything included in the Personal plan (free domain name for one year, ad-free experience, plugins, Activity Log, extra themes, and more.)
• Everything included in the Premium plan (premium themes, Styles to change colors and fonts, advertising, video uploads, Google Analytics, and more.)
• Free site migration—our team moves your existing WordPress site for you.
• All the features listed below in this guide:

We offer an extensive collection of beautiful, professionally designed themes to suit any website. Can’t find a layout that would work for your site? The Business plan has the widest collection of themes available.

All WordPress.com websites are optimized for search engines from a technical standpoint. On the Business plan, you can access extra SEO options for more advanced control over your website’s appearance in search.

Multi-data center support and real-time replication ensure your website can handle traffic surges effortlessly. By caching your site around the world, we reduce the time it takes to reach your visitors, no matter where they are. Your visitors will enjoy faster page load times and an improved user experience, helping you retain and grow your audience.

WordPress.com allows you to accept credit and debit card payments for goods, services, subscriptions, memberships, donations, and more. Fees are lower than those of Personal and Premium plans.

The Business plan offers 50 GB of storage for your images, audio files, and documents. Videos uploaded to the Business plan with hosting access activated do not count against your storage allotment. Learn more about storage on WordPress.com.

Business plan customers will receive 24/7 support from our expert Happiness Engineers. While most other hosting companies provide support for their hosting-related services, WordPress.com will also help with any questions you may have when building your website on WordPress. Not sure how to create a portfolio site, add a product, or style your contact page? We’re here to help!

WordPress.com is the perfect choice for the less technically-minded and for those who don’t have experience with programming code and website files. However, if you are tech-savvy and wish to work on your website using advanced developer tools, we provide:

• Credentials for SFTP and SSH access.
• MySQL database access via phpMyAdmin.
• PHP version switching.
• Manage your site’s server-side caching.
• Test product and design changes by creating a staging site environment, and seamlessly sync updates to and from your live site.
• Github deployments.
• Auto-updates of plugins, themes, and WordPress software to keep your website up-to-date and secure.
• The best security measures to protect your website from threats, including DDoS attacks, malware, and brute force attacks.
• Use our REST API to integrate custom functions or applications with your site content.

The WordPress.com Business plan is designed for small to medium-sized businesses, freelancers, and professional site owners who need advanced customization, powerful tools, and scalable performance. This plan is ideal if you want greater control over your site’s design and functionality without managing hosting or server maintenance.

Choose the Business plan if you:

• Need advanced integrations: You can connect your site with third-party services, tools, and plugins not available on lower-tier plans.
• Rely on SEO and marketing tools: The plan includes advanced SEO tools and the ability to remove all WordPress.com branding for a more professional presentation.
• Work with developers and agencies: With SFTP, WP-CLI, and database access, developers can build and maintain complex sites directly on WordPress.com infrastructure.
• Want your website to evolve: If your site starts with a simple setup and grows in complexity over time, the Business plan offers room to scale without needing to move to a different hosting provider.

WordPress.com Business offers the same great, extendable, and flexible WordPress experience as self-hosting, with added benefits.

On WordPress.com Business, we manage the hardware and the low-level system configurations for you so you can focus on what’s most important: your content. Just some of the technical tasks we handle, that a self-hosted site owner would typically manage themselves, include:

• There’s no need for SSH or FTP access, as we provide an easy-to-use interface to manage your site. However, SFTP access and SSH access are available on WordPress.com should you require it.
• We seamlessly allocate server resources without the need to upgrade further to support higher traffic, like some hosts require.
• You can add domain names and email services through WordPress.com and we’ll automatically make the necessary DNS configurations.
• Your website’s backend infrastructure is automatically optimized for SEO, so you can focus on SEO-friendly content.

With self-hosting, you’re typically managing your own servers and have more access to fine-tune configuration files. However, more control means more responsibility. On a self-hosted site, you’ll be responsible for maintaining site security, backups, spam prevention, and other functions yourself — functions we consider an essential part of owning a website and therefore provide automated tools that do the work for you. In addition, there is not a dedicated support team for WordPress.org like the support we offer on WordPress.com.