Can You Monetize a WordPress Site?

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that enables users to create a website or blog from scratch, or to improve an existing website. WordPress is free and open source software released under the GPL.

As of October 2016, WordPress has more than 30 million active installations.

Although WordPress is free, there are ways to monetize a WordPress site. One option is to sell advertising space on the site.

Another option is to sell subscriptions to the WordPress site’s content, which gives users access to new content added to the site regularly. Finally, a WordPress site can be sold as a web hosting service.