Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack and others has been betting hard on services lately. To add more value to users of their existing services, they’re now bringing a big seelction of themes to them, for free.
Jetpack brings a little more .com to your blog
Automattics’ plugin WordPress tries to bring WordPress.com features to your blog. Options like social sharing, simple forms, sitemaps and others are a few clicks away if you install Jetpack and connect your website to WordPress.com. And now, Jetpack users get another “WordPress.com” perk: access to the WordPress.com themes. Users of Jetpack can now install templates that were previously made available to WordPress.com users, which comes down to 150+ free themes that can be installed within a few clicks. There’s some pretty interesting templates in there. They might not all be “commercially” interesting for business sites but a lot of them definitely have their uses.
WordPress Premium now includes… Premium Themes
WordPress Premium is a service that adds new features to your WordPress.com blog, like a custom domain name, more storage, more design options and VideoPress. As of this month, a new option has been added.
Premium users now have access to all “Premium Themes.” These are WordPress.com themes that you could unlock by purchasing them (for an average price of €80). Now, you can use these themes for free when you’re a WordPress Premium user. Which is is a great deal, considering a Premium plan costs you €99 a year. You do the math.