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WordPress.com Developer Documentation

With WordPress.com hosting, you can count on unbeatable uptime, unmetered bandwidth, and everything you need to streamline your development process, baked in.

Plus, when you choose WordPress.com you’re not only getting all the best WordPress has to offer—you’re also contributing to driving the platform forward. As the biggest contributor to Core through the Five for the Future initiative, we live and breathe WordPress.

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Try before you buy. Start with a seven-day free trial of our Creator plan today to get instant access to all of the developer tools and platform features that keep WordPress.com sites performant, quick, and secure.

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Get Started

Build a brand new WordPress site with your favorite themes and plugins, or migrate an existing WordPress site to WordPress.com. You can add users and connect a domain to easily and quickly share your site with the world.

Get Started

Access Support

WordPress.com is committed to offering unparalleled assistance. No matter which of our plans you’re on, we offer a range of support from forum access to extremely personalized live chat with our expert Happiness Engineers. Feel free to ask us anything related to your website’s development, design, customization, coding, and hosting.

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Explore Developer Tools

Leverage tools to streamline your development process, enhance user experiences, and unlock the full potential of the WordPress.com platform. Get access to staging sites, run WP-CLI, use SFTP, configure web server settings, and more.

Explore Developer Tools

Boost Performance

WordPress.com’s full-stack performance features keep your sites running smoothly and quickly, regardless of whether your site has 10 or 10 million visitors.

Boost Performance

Explore Platform Features

Maximize your site’s potential with WordPress.com’s powerful platform features. Our suite of tools is designed to enhance your website’s functionality, security, and performance. Manage domains, secure backups, and more—all to provide a seamless web experience.

Explore Platform Features

Troubleshoot Issues

WordPress.com’s troubleshooting features help you to quickly identify and solve issues on your site. From performance monitoring to debugging, get the insights you need to keep your site in tip-top shape.

Troubleshoot Issues