Tech Stack

When you create a website on WordPress.com, you benefit from a comprehensive suite of pre-loaded features designed to optimize your website’s functionality, security, and growth potential. Below, we’ll share the key features that come standard with your WordPress.com site and explain their importance.

Pre-Installed Plugins

All WordPress.com Business and Commerce plans come pre-installed with certain plugins that grant you speed, security, and flexibility right away. You can find the full list of pre-installed plugins here.

Here are some benefits that these plugins give your site:

• Jetpack provides security, performance, backup, and growth tools so you don’t have to worry about finding multiple plugins for these essential features.
• Akismet automatically protects your website from spam comments and contact form submissions.
• Classic Editor (deactivated by default) brings back the WordPress classic editor for those who prefer the old editing experience.
• Crowdsignal Forms provides blocks to create polls, surveys, feedback forms and more, right from within the block editor.
• Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings includes options to create and manage polls from within your WordPress admin.
• Gutenberg is the development plugin for the block editor, site editor, and other future WordPress core functionality.
• Layout Grid allows you to create grid-based layouts with easily customizable column-width and positions.
• Page Optimize optimizes JS and CSS for faster page load and render in the browser.

Developer Tools

The WordPress.com Business plan is tailormade for developers with the following advanced features:

• Custom Code: Add JavaScript and other code modifications for greater flexibility in site functionality, tracking, and third-party integrations.
• SFTP and SSH Access: Manage and edit files on your WordPress site via file transfer tools like FileZilla and use the command line to access your server for advanced configurations and management tasks.
• MySQL Database Access: Access your site database via phpMyAdmin to manage your site’s backend data.
• Server-Side Caching Management: Built-in caching and options to clear the cache—no third-party plugin required.
• Staging Sites: Each site includes a separate copy of your live website used for testing and development purposes, with easy options to sync between staging and production environments.
• GitHub Deployments: Link your site with a GitHub repository so any changes made in your repository can be automatically pushed to your live or staging environment.
• REST API Integration: Send and receive data from your WordPress site via HTTP requests for powerful integrations with third-party applications and services.

Hosting Features

Any Business or Commerce plan comes with the following powerful features:

• Best-in-Class Managed Hosting: Powerful hosting is included alongside the WordPress software on WordPress.com, so you don’t need to sign up with another host.
• Automatic Updates: We keep your WordPress software and PHP version up-to-date automatically and provide optional automatic plugin and theme updates too.
• Storage: Business and Commerce sites come with 50 GB of storage, with add-ons for 100 GB or 150 GB, so you never have to worry about running out of capacity.
• Beautiful Themes and Patterns: Choose from a wide selection of mobile-ready themes and block patterns to easily launch a professional website that reflects your brand identity. On Business and Commerce plans, you can upload your own as well.
• Your Favorite Plugins: Download your favorite plugins from our plugin repository or upload your own.
• Visitor Stats: Access at-a-glance and in-depth analytics to measure your site’s success, refine your content, and improve engagement. Optionally integrate with Google Analytics.
• 24/7 Expert Support: Receive support from WordPress.com’s expert Happiness Engineers—available 24/7 to answer any questions about building and managing your website.

Marketing & Growth Features

Ready to grow your sites? With WordPress.com, many essential marketing tools are already included in your hosting plans:

• No Traffic Limits: Host everything from personal blogs to large news sites without worrying about visitor caps or compromising on speed. Unlimited traffic means you can grow your audience without constraints.
• Built-in Newsletters & RSS: Keep subscribers updated via email newsletters or RSS feeds to maintain engagement and keep your audience informed.
• Automatic Social Media Shares: Promote your posts automatically on major social media platforms, increasing your content’s reach and driving more traffic to your site.
• Search Engine Optimization: All WordPress.com websites come with essential SEO. Our Business plan provides access to advanced SEO tools, including the option to install premium SEO plugins like Yoast.
• Monetization: Collect secure payments from credit/debit cards via Stripe to sell goods and services, subscriptions, gated content, and accept donations.

Security Features

We keep your sites safe and protected with these security features: 

• Free SSL Certificates: We include free SSL with all domains used on a WordPress.com site, ensuring your site always loads over HTTPS.
• Spam Prevention: Automatically filter out spam comments with our Akismet tool.
• Jetpack Scan: Normally available as a paid service, Jetpack Scan is included at no extra cost for WordPress.com Business and Commerce customers to detect vulnerabilities and security threats in plugins, themes, and files.
• Real-time Backups: Daily automated backups provide peace of mind, so you can easily recover previous versions of the site if needed.
• Site Activity Log: Monitor recent changes made on your site and maintain oversight of your site’s activities by all users.

When you choose WordPress.com, you’re equipped with a robust platform that comes pre-loaded with essential features to help you build, manage, and grow your website efficiently. Whether you’re developing a blog, a business site, or an online store, our integrated tools ensure you have everything you need to succeed.