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What Is A Stewardship Site?

It’s a hosted WordPress-powered website loaded with fully licensed premium themes and plugins. All Stewardship sites come preinstalled with:

  • Divi
  • Gravity Forms (including all developer add-ons)
  • Gravity Perks
  • Akismet
  • Pretty Link Pro
  • Amelia
  • WPMUDEV Plugins
  • WPMUDEV Hosting

These are all essential tools for many WordPress-powered websites. How much would it cost you to put this configuration together on your own? 

Here is a breakdown of what each of these tools costs on an annual basis. 

  • Divi – $89/yr
  • Gravity Forms (including all developer add-ons) – $259/yr
  • Gravity Perks – $129/yr
  • Akismet – $120+/yr
  • Pretty Link Pro – $129/yr
  • Amelia – $119/yr
  • WPMUDEV Plugins – $228/yr
  • WPMUDEV Hosting – $120/yr

It would cost you over $1,193/year to put these together yourself.

Why not use Stewardship Sites and pay $96/site/year instead?

What's The Catch?

There is one important difference between 

Is this legal and moral?

I’m glad you asked. 

As you may know, WordPress is open source software. That basically means it is built by a large community and is free to use. By WordPress’s standards, plugins and themes must follow this rule as well.

So how do premium theme and plugin developers get away with charging an annual cost for thier products? What they sell is the initial access to the product and ongoing updates and support of the product. 

For premium themes and plugins, you must have a valid license to receive updates and support. 

I have and maintain developer licenses for all of the premium themes and plugins used on Stewardship Sites. 

I maintain the updates and 

Small

$5/mo @ $60/yr

  • ~250 MB of storage

Great for

  • Landing pages on a separate domain
  • Sandbox for testing ideas
  • Starting a personal blog

Medium

$8/mo @ $96/yr

  • ~1 GB of storage

Great for

  • Sandbox for testing ideas
  • Starting a personal blog
  • Starting a podcast

Large

$29/mo @ $348/yr

  • ~15 GB of storage

Great for

  • Landing pages on a separate domain
  • Static websites with up to a dozen pages or so
  • Sandbox for testing ideas
  • Starting a personal blog

Stewardship Site

$29/mo @ $348/yr

  • ~15 GB of storage

Great for…

  • Dynamic websites
  • Dozens to thousands of pages
  • ?Hosting your own podcast?
  • Hosting a blog with a lot of content OR that has a large following

Stewardship Site

$8/mo @ $96/yr

  • ~1 GB of storage

Great for

  • Landing pages on a separate domain
  • Static websites with up to a dozen pages or so
  • Sandbox for testing ideas
  • Starting a personal blog

Not Sure Which To Choose?

Start with a Mini. It’s easier to switch from a Mini to a Full than a Full to a Mini.