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WordPress.com<\/a> offers two modes of WP: WordPress and WordPress MS. For free and lower-priced accounts it runs a version of WordPress called WordPress MS<\/a>, or WordPress Multisite, which is designed for super-efficient multi-tenant usage, which is what has allowed it to introduce hundreds of millions of people to WordPress and run at a huge scale. (It was initially called MU<\/a>, for multi-user, but we had to change it because someone squatted the name WPMU and built a business on top that was confusing users with commercial products. Such is my curse.) It revolutionized the hosting industry in a number of ways, including acclimating customers to per-site pricing instead of unlimited domains and raising the bar for what a host would manage for users so they didn’t have to worry. It has also provided a highly secure base login, which allows us to offer popular SaaS services, such as statistics<\/a> and anti-spam<\/a>,\u00a0to all WordPress users, regardless of where they’re hosted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At higher-priced plans you’d get access to not just a curated set of plugins and themes but the ability to install anything you like from the ecosystem, which invisibly switches your account to WP.cloud<\/a> in the backend that supports unlimited plugins and themes and custom code, in a way that’s still multi-datacenter and maintenance-free. This has been very successful and works great for a ton of customers, but it still puts an asterisk when you recommend WordPress.com to someone because they’d need to be on one of the higher-priced plans to get an experience of WordPress with custom plugins and themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time ever we’re running a summer special where every single paid account gets that full WP.cloud experience<\/a> with full customization and control. It’s a test we’re running until August 25th<\/sup>. It’s WordPress, without the asterisk, without limits, implemented in a way that’s intuitive and safe for novice users, while also being extremely powerful for developers. If you haven’t checked out WP.com in a while, it’s a great deal starting at just $4 per month. I’m curious to see the results of how this goes. We also have a number of more radical things I’m eager to try out! It’s a great time to reimagine what you’re doing from the ground up and question your longest-held beliefs, as AI has really put people in a more experimental and open mindset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordPress.com offers two modes of WP: WordPress and WordPress MS. For free and lower-priced accounts it runs a version of WordPress called WordPress MS, or WordPress Multisite, which is designed for super-efficient multi-tenant usage, which is what has allowed it to introduce hundreds of millions of people to WordPress and run at a huge scale. … Continue reading WP.com Simplification<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":54207,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWEudHRcL2ZpbGVzXC8yMDIxXC8wNVwvUGhvdG8tb24tMjAyMC0xMC0yOC1hdC0yLjA1LVBNLTEtMTAyNHg2ODIuanBnIiwidHh0IjoiV1AuY29tIFNpbXBsaWZpY2F0aW9uIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJmdWxsc2NyZWVuIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjEwNDc4NjV9.wvZNmzjlfSlwsHED80Jzp4ZGlseiF8Ai3pPdcjRRJJwMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[120,34,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automattic","category-wordpress","category-wordpresscom"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/08\/simplification\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"WP.com Simplification","url":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/08\/simplification\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/08\/simplification\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Automattic","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt"}],"creator":["Matt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Mullenweg","logo":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/files\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2025-08-14T02:52:33Z","datePublished":"2025-08-14T02:52:33Z","dateModified":"2025-08-14T02:52:33Z"},"rendered":"