Choose the Explorer plan (formerly known as the Premium plan) to create a professional WordPress website customized to your tastes. This guide explains what’s included in the WordPress.com Explorer plan.
In this guide
The Explorer plan gives you:
- WordPress hosting.
- Everything included in the free version of WordPress.com.
- Everything included in the Starter plan (free domain for one year, ad-free experience, Activity Log, 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 premium-designed themes. Choose your theme and make it your own with Premium Styles. If coding is your thing, you can customize your site with CSS.
Did you know your site can help you earn money? With the Explorer 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 beautifully in 4K resolution, with picture-in-picture, subtitles, and support for all modern devices and screens, without intrusive ads or imposing player branding. See our Video guide for more.
While all sites can automatically share posts on social media upon publishing, resharing already-published posts to promote them further is available with the Explorer plan.
On the Explorer plan, you can integrate your website with Google Analytics for a detailed and powerful analysis of how your site is performing.
The Explorer plan offers 13 GB of storage for your images, video, audio files, and documents. Learn more about storage on WordPress.com.
On the Explorer 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!
