Standalone SharePoint is being retired in 2026, so the intranet now arrives bundled in a Microsoft 365 suite priced per head. Here is what that costs at 50, 200 and 1,000 staff, and how to build an intranet people actually open on WordPress instead.
Varun Dubey··13 min read
The word portal is doing four different jobs, and picking the plugin for the wrong one is the most expensive mistake in this category. A decision chart plus verified pricing for client, customer, member and community portals.
Experience Cloud bills $5 per member per month, so a 500-member portal costs $30,000 a year. Every community portal is built from the same six features. Here is how to run all six on WordPress, and the three cases where you should still buy commercial.
A practical guide to building a private WordPress community: the three real privacy levels, how to set up registration and groups without killing early momentum, and the ten plugins worth comparing.
X is shutting down Communities on May 30. Compare Discord, Circle, Skool, Mighty Networks, and self-hosted WordPress with Jetonomy on the dimensions that decide year three: ownership, cost-per-member, and content portability.
The all-in-one WordPress community stack
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