[3] This website provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades,[4] "VIP" services and advertising.

[2] It was initially launched as an invitation-only service, although at one stage, accounts were also available to users of the Flock web browser.

[17] In order to remove the ads, users need to purchase a Plan that starts at $4 a month (if billed annually).

His lawyers argued that blogs on WordPress.com contained libelous material on Oktar and his colleagues which WordPress.com staff was unwilling to remove.

[22] In August 2018, WordPress.com began removing several pages that suggested the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.