We hear you. You love your WordPress.com Personal or Premium plan, but there’s that one plugin — or two — you’ve been itching to try. Normally, plugins are only available on Business and Commerce plans. From August 12 to August 25, 2025, new customers and users upgrading from free plans can now use plugins on all new Personal and Premium plans.
What can you do with plugins?
With plugins, you can go beyond the basics and unlock powerful features for your sites:
- Boost your visibility with advanced SEO tools like schema markup, redirect management, and fine-tune how your content appears in search engine results.
- Add niche features such as recipe cards, event calendar, booking tools, and more without coding.
- Design with more freedom with additional blocks, page builders, and styling controls.
- Streamline your workflow by adding editorial calendars, role editors, and custom content types specific to your site’s needs.
- Sell products or services with e-commerce plugins and many more.
Think about that one feature you’ve been missing; now you can try it out for yourself.
Why now?
Plugins open the door to even more ways to customize your site and bring your ideas to life. On our Business and Commerce plans, we offer these tools along with the extra support and flexibility they require to run your site smoothly. Many of you have asked for the chance to try plugins on Personal and Premium plans, so we’re making it happen for a limited time.
This window from August 12 to August 25 is your chance to explore plugins on all paid plans that usually don’t include them.
After August 25, plugin access returns to WordPress.com Business and Commerce plans only. Customers who have bought during the two-week promotion period will be able to keep plugin access as long as they keep their original plan.
Who’s this for?
This offer is for anyone ready to start something new on WordPress.com — whether it’s your first site or your next one. If you purchase a new Personal or Premium plan during this two‑week window, you’ll unlock plugin access for that site.
- New sites signing up for WordPress.com Personal or Premium plans during the offer
- Free plan users upgrading to WordPress.com Personal or Premium plans
If you already have a paid Personal or Premium plan, this offer doesn’t apply, but you can upgrade to a WordPress.com Business or Commerce plan anytime to get plugins. Offer is not applicable for downgrades and renewals at this time.
Ready to try that plugin you’ve been eyeing?
This is your chance to try WordPress.com without limits. Grab a new Personal or Premium plan by August 25, 2025, and unlock plugins for that site — forever — and build the site you’ve been dreaming about.
We’re excited to experiment with this alongside you and see what you create. This is a chance for us to learn together, discover what you build, and explore how plugins can help you achieve your goals. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback as you try new things, share what works, and tell us what you would like to see next.
This offer ends on August 26 at 7 a.m. (UTC).
