It is _if_ you self-host. Paying wordpress.com has been a crappy experience IMHO. You don't get much for the base tier and you don't get plugins until you pay f

It is _if_ you self-host. Paying wordpress.com has been a crappy experience IMHO. You don't get much for the base tier and you don't get plugins until you pay for a much more expensive tier. I just wanted a place to blog and was tired of managing my ghost self-hosted blog and didn't want to pay for ghost. I ended up having to move up a tier to do basic things (sunk cost) and I blog probably 1-2 times a year if that. Whatever, I've paid up for a year or two now and once that expires I'll re-evaluate.