Does wordpress.org cost money?

[Carly]

Besides the hosting cost.. is there an extra fee from wordpress.org?

[Thomas]

To buy first domain name I important and then hosting..
These both require some cost to buy.

[Jake]

Wordpress as well as a galaxy of themes and plugins are available for free.

A more professional wordpress based site might buy a higher quality custom theme and advanced plugins.

Some start with the slightly limited free hosted version at wordpress.com, which does have some paid hosting upgrades as well, this is a separate entity from wordpress.org.

[mark n]

Wordpress.org software is 100% free.

The only other necessary costs on your end would be a domain name and a webhosting account. The domain will be a one-time fee plus an annual renewal fee (usually in the ballpark of $8.50), and hosting is a monthly fee (you can find cheap shared hosting at around $5/mo these days, and simply upgrade in the future when necessary).

[Conga D]

Wordpress in and of itself is free, as well as many of the plugins, however, some of the premium plugins cost money.

[Ashes]

wordpress is open and free software. go to <a href='http://wordpress.org'>http://www.wordpress.org</a>

[Vv Pp]

wordpress is a open source program completely free

you can even get a free wordpress blog from wordpress.com which doesn't involve any cost or maintenance.

[Elexy]

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[Kieron]

The content management system doesn't cost anything, you just need a hosting account to set it up. But there are a plethora of plugins that can cost, so really depends on what you want to do http://wordpress.org/plugins/ Lots of stuff about!

[mOOven]

No... there is no an extra fee from wordpress.org
that's why WordPress becomes a leader for CMS platform
You can do anything with WordPress