# WordPress.com Student Plan

DevFeed: [WordPress.com Student Plan](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/wordpress-com-student-plan-4269.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://css-tricks.com/wordpress-student-plan/>)

Author: Geoff Graham

Published: 2026-08-19T08:50:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [CSS-Tricks](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/css-tricks.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [education](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/education.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [links](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/links.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

The article welcomes WordPress.com's free one-year Student plan as a practical way for students to host web-development projects. It argues that the plan removes a recurring cost and hosting barrier while still allowing direct code access.

## Source excerpt

As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though. WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.