WordPress Vip Support

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 7:07 pm

How does your money WordPress

WordPress is not owned by a nonprofit company, and despite the fact that software is inherently WordPress Free and open source software brings a significant portion of revenues from Automattic (the company that owns WordPress).

Below are WordPress main ways brings a profit for its investors:

WordPress.com Features

Google AdSense ads are placed "very rarely" on blogs hosted on WordPress.com. Users can pay a small annual fee to remove ads. WordPress.com Customers can also choose other features such as domain mapping, additional storage, and unlimited users custom CSS. All these are sources of Automattic income.

VIP Support WordPress.org

While the WordPress community offers free support through forums and tutorials, Automattic offers different levels of VIP support they give to companies and organizations direct access to the developers of WordPress, upgrade warnings and recommendations third party consultation. VIP support packages is $ 15,000 per year, but the highest level of support, providing effective supervision of sites and visits the ground, costing up to $ 150,000 per year.

Akismet

Akismet ingenious tool is probably the software protection against the most advanced Internet spam. Powered by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and a number of other developers Automattic, the tool filters the user submits the content for spam by comparing the patterns of a database. Although the use of the standard is free Automattic makes money by selling licenses Akismet for companies and large web sites.

What makes WordPress so successful?

Success WordPress, as in most open source projects, you may very likely contributed to its huge community and group of people who spend time coding plugins and themes without expecting anything in return. Automattic has done a good job to facilitate the project and provide the basic development.

About the Author

Chris is a WordPress blogger and writes about the latest in blogging at Blogtap.net. Check out his tutorial on installing custom taxonomies in WordPress themes. As a blogging consultant, Chris is always willing to answer questions and take up new clients. Just use the website contact form if you need to get into contact with Chris.

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