Choose the Premium plan (formerly known as the Explorer plan) to create a professional WordPress website customized to your tastes. This guide explains what’s included in the WordPress.com Premium plan.
The Premium plan gives you:
- WordPress hosting.
- Everything included in the free version of WordPress.com.
- Everything included in the Personal plan (free domain for one year, ad-free experience, install plugins, Activity Log, extra themes, Styles, and more.)
- All the features listed below in this guide.
If you decide you want to have more features in the future, you can upgrade your existing plan at any time.
Start with a large collection of professional WordPress themes, including our full collection of premium-designed themes.
Did you know your site can help you earn money? With the Premium plan, you can display ads on your site and earn money when your visitors view those ads. Learn more about how to monetize your WordPress.com site.
Upload video files like MP4 to your website and display them with the video block. For the enhanced VideoPress player—with 4K resolution, picture-in-picture, subtitles, and no ads or player branding—upgrade to the Business plan.
While all sites can automatically share posts on social media upon publishing, resharing already-published posts to promote them further is available with the Premium plan.
Additional features like UTM tracking, search terms, traffic to specific authors, and device usage are included for your site’s stats on the Premium plan.
On the Premium plan, you can integrate your website with Google Analytics for a detailed and powerful analysis of how your site is performing.
All WordPress.com websites are optimized for search engines from a technical standpoint. The Premium plan adds extra SEO tools for more advanced control over your website’s appearance in search, including custom titles, meta descriptions, and per-page visibility settings. Learn how to use additional SEO tools.
WordPress.com allows you to accept credit and debit card payments for goods, services, subscriptions, memberships, and more. You can also sell access to premium content and collect donations and tips. A fee applies to each transaction, and fees are lower on the Business and Commerce plans.
Premium plan sites can insert blocks that integrate with third-party tools without requiring a plugin:
- Use the Calendly block to embed a calendar for customers to schedule appointments.
- Use the OpenTable block to let your visitors book a table at your restaurant directly through your website.
- Add a WhatsApp Button block to your posts and pages so visitors can contact you directly via WhatsApp with one tap.
The Premium plan offers 13 GB of storage for your images, videos, audio files, and documents. Learn more about storage on WordPress.com.
On the Premium plan, you will have 24/7 access to our Happiness Engineers. We’re here to help you build a successful website or blog. Need help? Reach out today!
Thinking about migrating your WordPress site to WordPress.com?
Our expert team can migrate the site for you while your live site remains unaffected.
Our team typically completes the migration within 2–3 business days. Once it’s complete, we’ll guide you through connecting your domain and getting your new site up and running. To get started, enter your site details and pick the “Migrate site” option during the migration setup below. We’ll handle the rest.
Learn more about the migration process.
