WordPress.com

Invulu has partnered with the good folks at Automattic for releasing Organic Themes on their WordPress.com marketplace — which hosts millions of blogs and websites. We are proud to say that with currently 4 premium Organic Themes available (and 2 free themes), we are the most popular theme shop in their marketplace. We are focused on providing more themes for the WordPress.com marketplace, and continuing our awesome partnership with Automattic.

WordPress.com is brought to you by some of the same folks who work on the open source blogging software available at WordPress.org.

Open source WordPress has been incredibly successful and risen from a handful of users to the most-used blog tool in its category. However, as easy-to-use as we could make the open source package, there was still a barrier in that it requires a hosting account, a database, FTP, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms that make normal people like you and me dizzy.

We wanted to bring the WordPress experience to a larger audience. So we created WordPress.com, a hosted version of the open source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. We’re a bit of an underdog, as there are much larger hosted blogging services such as Blogger that have been out for years, but when WordPress.org got started people said the blog software market was saturated and there wasn’t room for anything new. (The big players then were Greymatter and Movable Type.) We think we have something unique to bring to the table.

WordPress.com is under very active development, and we roll out updates almost every day. New features are driven by you so please use our feedback form to let us know what you want.

Almost everything on WordPress.com is free, and things that are currently free will remain free in the future, but we do offer paid a la carte upgrades for things like custom design and custom domains. How do we pay for everything? WordPress.com is run by Automattic which currently makes money from the aforementioned upgrades, blog services, Akismet anti-spam technology, and hosting partnerships.