Choose the Starter plan (formerly known as the Personal plan) to create a powerful WordPress website or blog to use as your home on the web. This guide explains what’s included in the WordPress.com Starter plan.
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The Starter plan includes WordPress hosting and everything else included in the free version of WordPress.com. By upgrading to this plan, your website will have all the features listed below.
If you decide you want to have more features in the future, you can upgrade your existing plan at any time.
With any WordPress.com paid plan (monthly or annual), you can set your domain as your site’s primary address. Without a paid plan, the free .wordpress.com address is the site’s primary domain.
If you have an existing domain name that you aren’t ready to transfer yet, you can connect the domain to your WordPress.com site on any of our plans.
When you purchase an annual plan, you can register a new domain for free for the first year. This offer is included in our one-year, two-year, and three-year plans but not monthly plans.
Register any available domain with popular extensions, including .com, .net, .org, and many more. If you already own the domain name you wish to use with your website, you can transfer your domain registration to WordPress.com for free with your annual plan.
After the first year, your domain will renew at the standard registration price listed in your Purchases. You can also check domain pricing here.
An SSL certificate is like a safety stamp for your website. When your website has an SSL certificate, it will load with https before your domain and the browser will display a padlock icon in the address bar that tells visitors your website is safe.
We provide an SSL certificate for all WordPress.com websites. We consider it so important that it can’t be turned off.
Free sites on WordPress.com display ads to help us pay the bills. To remove those ads from your site, purchase any plan, and no more advertisements will be displayed. Learn more about removing advertising on WordPress.com.
You can keep an administrative eye on all activity across your site using your Activity Log. While free sites have access to the 20 most recent events, upgrading to any WordPress.com paid plan will provide additional access to your full activity for the past 30 days, and the ability to filter events by type and date.
Upload audio files like mp3s to your website with any paid plan subscription. See our Audio guide for more.
The Starter plan offers 6 GB of storage for your images, audio files, and documents. Learn more about storage on WordPress.com.
On the Starter 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!
