Mukhbir

Well mostly people wonder how does the automattic or wordpress(product of automattic) earn money. Here's how they do it:

1. WordPress Vip hosting : word press provides vip hosting to special customers, such as Om Malik and Political Ticker and other publishers. Though this hosting is not available for all those apply!
2. Adsense: Adsense ads are shown in wordpress hosted blogs, if the user is not using firefox, id not logged in, or is not coming from another wordpress hosted blog.
3. Commercial Plugins: Although most of the wp plugins are free, but some offer a commercial licence, which generates revenue
4. Premium Accounts: If the users want extra space for their multimedia stuff, they need to buy the premium hosting.

Well these are some of the ways that the wordpress generates enough revenue to keep them motivated to continue!