Everything You Need To Know About WordPress Plans 2

Everything You Need To Know About WordPress Plans

If you’re not sure whether to upgrade or not read the first part of this post “Everything You Need To Know About WordPress Plans” by clicking here.

So you’ve decided to upgrade but aren’t sure what plan would be perfect for you? Well than this post should help. I realised quickly that WordPress doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about it’s plans and to stop others from going through what I did I want to help you pick the perfect plan for you. I ended up picking the wrong one and having to downgrade which led me to lose my likes and comments for the posts I did while on my new plan because they promised to backup the data but for some reason it didn’t work out. It could have been a lot worse especially because the help team was literally like “yeah sorry we can’t help you we don’t know how to fix this…” Anyway here is the inside scoop on all the plans to help you decide what’s right for you!

The Personal Plan

What they say you get on WordPress

Free Domain for One Year
Jetpack Essential Features
Email & Live Chat Support
Dozens of Free Themes
Basic Design Customization
6 GB Storage Space
Remove WordPress.com Ads

My Thoughts

In my opinion if you started a blog as more of a hobby and have the budget to give it a little glow-up this is the plan for you. It’s not great if you want to blog professionally because you don’t get a .com site and a lot of the extra features offered on the other plans to help customize you site.

The Premium Plan

What they say you get on WordPress

Free Domain for One Year

Jetpack Essential Features

Email & Live Chat Support

Advanced Design Customization
13 GB Storage Space
Remove WordPress.com Ads
Google Analytics Integration
Advanced Social Media
Simple Payments
Site Monetization
VideoPress Support

My Thoughts

This is the plan that I’m currently using and I really love it. It’s quite affordable compared to the Business Plan and has almost all the same features from what I’ve noticed. If you want to transition into becoming a full time blogger I would highly recommend this plan. It allows you to use any theme available on WordPress and customize it to an extent. It also gives you a payment button which is useful if you want to make money off your blog.

The Business Plan

What they say you get on WordPress

Free Domain for One Year

Jetpack Advanced Features

Email & Live Chat Support

Unlimited Premium Themes

Advanced Design Customization

200 GB Storage Space

Remove WordPress.com Ads

Google Analytics Integration

Advanced Social Media

Simple Payments

Site Monetization

VideoPress Support

Get Personalized Help

SEO Tools

Install Plugins

Install Themes

Remove WordPress.com Branding

My Thoughts

I tried this plan and honestly I hated it. The main pro is that you get plugins and get more control over over what your blog looks like. The main problem I had with this plan is that you lose your follow button- the one at the bottom right. I feel like this button is very useful for gaining new followers and it’s ridiculous that they don’t have it in this plan. Another problem I had was that it seemed to slow down my blog- I don’t know if this happened to anyone else on this plan but it did for my blog so just giving you a heads up.

For the price I also didn’t think it had many useful features that you can’t get on the Premium Plan. I would recommend this plan if you already earn a good amount of income off your blog and are a professional blogger who needs specific features only offered on this plan.

The eCommerce Plan

What they say you get on WordPress

Free Domain for One Year

Jetpack Advanced Features

Email & Live Chat Support

Unlimited Premium Themes

Advanced Design Customization

200 GB Storage Space

Remove WordPress.com Ads

Google Analytics Integration

Advanced Social Media

Simple Payments

Site Monetization

VideoPress Support

Get Personalized Help

SEO Tools

Install Plugins

Install Themes

Remove WordPress.com Branding

Accept Payments in 60+ Countries

Integrations with Top Shipping Carriers

Unlimited Products or Services

eCommerce Marketing Tools

Premium Customizable Starter Themes

My Thoughts

Never tried this plan but I think it would be best suited for someone thinking of selling something on their blog. Unless you are planning on selling something I would highly recommend not getting this plan.


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77 responses to “Everything You Need To Know About WordPress Plans 2”

  1. Thanks for this. Has given me some perspective, as I’ve started out.

    1. Glad to hear it’s helpful!

  2. This is great! I will definitely recommend this post to anyone that has the same concerns I did 🙂

    1. Thank you so much!!

    1. Happy to hear that!

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  4. I shared this post too

    1. Thank you!

      1. You’re welcome 🙂

  5. This is a very impressive article. Many thanks for the pointers. I used to think the personal plan gives you a .com domain but how sad, it doesn’t. I’ve got to look for extra bucks for the premium plan.
    I’ve got two questions that bother me and I’d be glad if you could be of help.
    1. Are there any issues concerning linking your former .wordpress.com domain with your new .com domain? How does it work? Do you lose traffic?
    2. What exactly is video press?

    1. Yeah you only get like .blog or .org for the Personal Plan which is the only reason I picked the Premium Plan.

      I personally didn’t have any issues with linking my domain and did not lose any followers or traffic. It takes about a day to transfer and get properly set up but from my experience if was not inconvenient at all.

      From what I know videopress helps with putting videos on your WordPress. Here’s what I found out about it from Google https://en.support.wordpress.com/videopress/

      1. Thanks so much for the response. Now I can breath knowing that I won’t hire an engineer to upgrade my blog.
        Thanks Again, Keep Writing.

        1. You’re welcome I’m happy to help!

  6. Just now I am using free plan , is we have to take compulsory business plan to increase ranking & traffic of site.?

    1. No there is no need to upgrade to increase traffic/followers. I reached 10K before upgrading.

      1. I want to monetize site with Ezoic or propeller ads so i think I would have to take these plans & my image storage also getting to finish. If i will take business plan is site structure will change.

        1. Yeah your site structure will change with the Business Plan. You’ll lose your follow button and there are a few other changes too. But you need it for plugins.

  7. I was going to ask about the Blogger Plan, but looks like they removed it. It was available a few months ago. It was cheaper than the Personal Plan, and only offered half the storage space. I always thought they should have switched the prices and storage space between Blogger and Personal as a blogger would need more space than a personal blog.

    1. Yeah I saw that they removed that too! Yeah personal should have had the least amount of storage that would have made the most sense.

  8. Awesome. Great post Pooja.
    I’ve finished moving to Self-hosted WP and I really satisfied with it.

    1. Thanks glad to hear that!

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  10. Hi please with the premium plan will in get Yoast plug in

    1. No you can only get plugins with the Business Plan.

      1. Oh okay. So without Yoast how will I be able to increase in ranking on Google.
        2. Will I be able to use infolinks to monetize with the premium plan.

        1. No if you want to monetize as far as I know you’ll need the Business Plan as you need plugins. Yeah without Yoast you can still increase your Google ranking by using SEO words and other things.

            1. You’re welcome!

  11. Thank you for the great information, I am just thinking to upgrade for the very first time

    1. Hope this helps and let me know if you have any more questions I’m happy to help!

  12. this is incredibly useful; sounds like it is time for me to switch to the premium plan. do you know what “personalized help” refers to with the business plan?

    1. I think you get specific help for your blog from the WordPress help service but to be honest it’s not too helpful.

      1. I have found the support people at WordPress quite helpful; I just don’t know if the help I got would have been the same if I was on the Premium Pan.

        1. Yeah I thought they were helpful but they didn’t seem to know how to helpful either but that could be because I’m on the Premium Plan

          1. I’ll be comparing the two plans closely.

            1. Let me know what you find out I would be very interested to know!

  13. I was on the personal plan last year, too, but finally upgraded this year. Like you, I was deciding between the personal plan and the business plan…. and I went with the biz plan b/c I got a pretty good deal. However, I have super mixed views. I’ve stayed for the plugins but I’m not 100% happy.

    1. Yeah that’s how I felt with the Business Plan. It has some good pros like the plugins but there are some aspects of it I really don’t like.

  14. Thanks for these precious insights of yours, lady!
    I’m still a “free” user and i’m serious considering upgrading since i want to do MUCH more with my blog. This helped me confirm my thoughts. :]

    1. Glad the post helped!

  15. Thanks for the information. You really gave me somethings to consider as a new blogger

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  18. I have found the people at Word Press can not solve a lot of problems I have with the site. I still can’t get my google email to link to my contact on there. I have dealt with representatives a few times about it. They say it’s a google issue. Google says it’s fine on their end, it’s a word press issue. I have only been able to use gallery for images on one post. It has not allowed me to do it on other posts without putting the images on top of text. I think they need better people working in customer service. Or perhaps their software people can’t handle situations?

    1. I think the people assisting haven’t been taught how to handle certain situations and are perhaps not qualified to fix certain issues because these are things they should know how to solve.

      1. You’re right! The things I have contacted them about you would think be in their training manuals.

        1. Yeah it’s ridiculous that they can’t help with basic problems. WordPress needs to train their staff better or get better qualified people to help.

  19. I’ve been thinking about upgrading so both your posts on this topic are really helpful. Thanks & happy New Year!

    1. Glad they helped and Happy New Year!

  20. I was thinking about upgrading to business at first but now hell no I’m already having problem with WordPress that’s my opinion

    1. I would really not recommend the Business Plan it’s the worst and the help at WordPress is extremely unhelpful.

  21. Hi, That is really awesome to find your blog. I was really looking for SEO Articles. I am currently on the Premium package at WordPress.com. I want to improve its SEO but I can’t install Plugins. any Good Suggestions for my blog. It is on inspiration and motivation.
    https://idealinspiration.blog is the blog link.
    Regards
    Rising Star

    1. I’m on Premium too and I guess use more SEO friendly tags, words, categories. I’m not sure if that helps but I hope it does.

      1. Does categories work for SEO?

        1. Yeah I think so.

  22. Thanks for the advice. I enjoy reading it while wondering why I clicked it in the first place. I don’t even have that many traffic to my site lol

    1. Not yet you mean! Traffic grows over time!

  23. Hey hi, i liked the way you described things. One doubt i have is you mentioned in the premium plan they give paypal button for payments but i am unable to post it in my blogs. Have you written any blog on this topic??

    1. Thanks! I don’t have a specific post on that but this might help: https://wordpress.com › launch-your…
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      WordPress Simple Payments Button – WordPress.com

  24. Thanks a bunch ! I am on the same plan as you but was just looking at an upgrade- you saved me the hassle!

    1. I’m glad to hear that! I wanted to write this so people don’t have to go through everything I did. The Premium Plan in my experience is definitely the best one.

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  26. where were you when I was trying to figure out which plan to use hahahaha I had to learn those article is the scoop I will bookmark it for reference when I write my own experiences on the plans I have used..
    First I think the Business Plan and the eCommerce are so outrageously priced I cant even find a justification for anyone using those unless you are loaded… also it would most likely mean you are professional in which case I would recommend you go self-hosted which is far cheaper and gives you way more control andd if the technical aspects of it give you a headache from the change you can hire the services of IT to do the housekeeping and all you do is write or even outsource writers too you can afford it hahaha
    ~B

    1. I know I wish someone had told me this when I updated too which is why I specifically posted this- WP is very stingy with how much information they give about their plans!

      I agree self-hosted is so much more affordable plus you get so much stuff that the .com plans don’t even offer. The Business Plan is way too expensive for just the privilege of plugins- you can get that for less than half the price with self-hosted.

  27. Reblogged this on Lifesfinewhine and commented:

    I reblogged the first part of this post last week and thought I would also reblog the second part since I got some positive feedback for the last one. Hope you guys find it helpful!

  28. Right now on $0 budget but will keep in mind if that changes.

    1. Yeah if in the future your budget increases feel free to come back to this post.

  29. Well, you do get 200g of storage, and my site actually overall runs much faster using the Business plan. The plugins are great too. I’m sorry that you had a bad experience with this plan, Pooja. ❤️

    1. That’s really great! Although it wasn’t the plan for me when I wrote this I am actually planning on updating to the plan soon because of the plugins mostly. I think it’s worth another try ❤️

  30. Hey Pooja,
    I didn’t expect to learn anything new in this post as I’m already fairly familiar with the plans.
    But I DID learn something! I didn’t know about the loss of the WP follow button on the lower right.
    I have two blogs on two different plans:
    My original blog: http://www.greenstarsproject.org, which is on the quite pricey Business Plan.
    My newer blog: http://www.ethicalbargains.org, which is on the basic Personal Plan.

    I had put a lot more effort into customizing the Green Stars Project blog and yet it doesn’t look much more fancy than Ethical Bargains. What do you think?
    I’m starting to think that just sticking with a standard theme (and maybe switching it now and then) may be just as good!

    1. Yeah I think the Business Plan has little to offer other than plugins. It’s quite overpriced too. I would definitely recommend sticking with a more affordable plan and just customizing your site a little instead if plugins aren’t a necessity for you.

      1. I think I’ll do that – thanks for bringing this to my attention!

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