WordPress itself is free. However, anyone who wants to run a fast, secure, and professionally equipped website with it will sooner or later end up using additional plugins.
Caching, backups, SEO, login protection, SMTP shipping, or cookie management: free extensions exist for many of these tasks. However, the more comprehensive features are often found in paid pro versions.
Anyone who subscribes to multiple premium plugins individually can therefore quickly accumulate significant annual license costs. At CURIAWEB, we take a different approach: A selection of powerful WordPress premium plugins is already included in the hosting.
WordPress is free – a professional WordPress website often is not
The free availability of WordPress is one of the system's major advantages. However, this does not mean that professional operation incurs no further costs whatsoever.
Depending on the website, solutions are needed, for example, for:
- Performance and caching
- Search engine optimization
- Backups and Recovery
- Login and brute-force protection
- Cookie and consent management
- SMTP and Email Sending
- Page layout
- File management
For almost all of these tasks, numerous WordPress plugins exist. Many providers follow a freemium model: the basic version is free, while additional features require a paid license.
The real problem: Many small subscriptions add up
A single premium plugin usually seems financially manageable. It becomes problematic when multiple paid extensions are needed for different tasks.
This not only results in additional costs, but also in organizational overhead.
Website operators may need to:
- manage multiple user accounts with different providers
- keep track of different license durations
- Check extensions
- Keep payment methods up to date
- Manage license keys
Especially with multiple websites, a few plugins can quickly turn into a small license management task.
Premium plugins already included at CURIAWEB
At our WordPress Hosting therefore, we provide a selection of Pro versions without separate plugin license costs.
This currently includes:
- SoftWP Pro
- CookieAdmin Pro
- Backuply Pro
- SpeedyCache Pro
- SiteSEO Pro
- Loginizer Pro
- PageLayer Pro
- GoSMTP Pro
- FileOrganizer Pro
This means that suitable tools are already available for many typical WordPress website tasks, without the need to purchase a separate license for each plugin.
What tasks do the included plugins cover?
What matters is not the number of plugins, but the specific value they provide for a website.
SpeedyCache Pro – Performance and Caching
Caching is one of the most important foundations for a fast WordPress website.
Instead of fully regenerating every page on every request, already processed content can be cached and delivered faster.
SpeedyCache Pro provides advanced features for performance optimization.
SiteSEO Pro – Technical SEO
A WordPress website needs a solid technical foundation so that search engines can properly index content.
SiteSEO Pro assists with various technical and content-related SEO tasks, among other things.
What is important, however, is: No SEO plugin guarantees good Google rankings. It provides tools. Good content, technical quality, search intent, and other ranking factors remain crucial.
Backuply Pro – Additional Backup Options
Backups are among the fundamental security measures of any website.
Backuply Pro offers features that allow WordPress files and databases to be backed up and restored if needed.
We explain why a well-thought-out data backup is important in more detail in the article Backup Strategies: What Really Matters .
Loginizer Pro – WordPress Login Protection
WordPress login pages are a frequent target of automated login attempts.
Loginizer Pro provides additional security features to make such attacks more difficult and to better secure administrative access.
GoSMTP Pro – more reliable mail delivery from WordPress
Contact forms, password resets, order confirmations, or system messages rely on functioning email delivery.
GoSMTP Pro allows you to configure WordPress to send emails via a suitable SMTP service. This can improve email delivery reliability compared to unsuitable default configurations.
CookieAdmin Pro – Cookie and Consent Management
CookieAdmin Pro supports the technical management of cookies and consents on a WordPress website.
However, a plugin alone does not automatically make a website legally compliant. Which legal requirements apply depends on the website, the services used, target audiences, and other factors.
PageLayer Pro – Design websites visually
PageLayer Pro provides a visual page builder that allows you to design and edit pages without manual coding.
This is particularly interesting for operators who want to customize their website's content themselves later on.
FileOrganizer Pro – Manage files directly in WordPress
FileOrganizer Pro extends WordPress with file management capabilities.
This allows certain administrative tasks to be performed directly via the WordPress interface without having to use separate FTP access for every task.
SoftWP Pro – additional WordPress tools
SoftWP Pro adds further functions for management and operation to the WordPress environment and is also part of the provided plugin package.
Premium does not mean installing as many plugins as possible
An important point is often overlooked with plugin packages: Just because a premium plugin is available doesn't mean it has to be installed on every website.
Each additional plugin expands a website's program code and can affect performance, compatibility, and maintenance effort.
Therefore, only what is actually needed for the respective website should ever be installed.
A simple club website requires different features than a WooCommerce store. A private website, in turn, has different requirements than an extensive corporate website.
Who are the included premium plugins interesting for?
Therefore, the advantage is by no means limited to SMEs.
The provided plugins may be of interest for, for example:
- Companies, who want to run their website professionally
- Self-employed, that want to reduce licensing and administrative overhead
- Clubs, who need a high-performance website on a limited budget
- Private individuals, who want more features than a simple WordPress installation
- Agencies and Webmasters, that manage multiple WordPress projects
How much can actually be saved with premium plugins?
It is not possible to reliably state a flat-rate savings amount for every website.
It depends on which of the included plugins would actually be needed and which paid alternatives would be used instead.
For example, anyone already paying for several comparable Pro licenses separately can save a significant amount per year thanks to the included plugins.
On the other hand, anyone who runs just a simple WordPress website and exclusively needs free plugins naturally has a lower direct financial saving.
Therefore, the advantage consists not only in the license price, but also in, to already have suitable pro tools available for many typical tasks.
Premium plugins do not replace good hosting
Even the best WordPress plugins cannot completely compensate for an unsuitable hosting environment.
Performance arises, for example, from the interaction of:
- Server resources
- PHP configuration
- Database
- Caching
- Themes and plugins
- regular maintenance
Therefore, we view the included premium plugins as a complement to the hosting infrastructure rather than a replacement for it.
More on this context can be found under: Why WordPress can be slow despite good hosting .
What happens to the premium licenses when switching providers?
This point should have been clear from the beginning with hosting-tied premium licenses.
The pro licenses provided by CURIAWEB are part of the respective hosting package. They do not become personal, permanently transferable individual licenses of the website operator.
If the hosting is terminated, the use of the premium license provided via CURIAWEB may also end as a result.
The WordPress website itself remains fundamentally separate from this. If a plugin is to continue being used in its Pro version after a switch, a separate license from the respective manufacturer may be required.
View hosting and software as a complete package
Therefore, when choosing WordPress hosting, it pays to take a closer look than just at storage space and the monthly price.
What is interesting is which services are actually included:
- What technical resources are available?
- What backup options are available?
- Which WordPress tools are included?
- Which security features are available?
- Who helps with technical problems?
A seemingly cheap hosting plan can end up being more expensive if numerous required services have to be purchased separately.
Conclusion: More than just storage space for WordPress
A professional WordPress website consists of more than just WordPress and some storage space. Performance, SEO, backups, security, and reliable mail delivery require appropriate technical tools.
That is why various CURIAWEB WordPress Premium plugins already included in hosting.
This can reduce additional license costs while simultaneously simplifying the technical setup of the website.
It does not matter whether there is a company, a freelancer, an association, or a private individual behind the website. What is decisive is which functions are actually needed.
Therefore, anyone comparing WordPress hosting should not only ask: „How much does the hosting cost?“
The better question is: „What do I actually get for this price?“
