Frequently Asked Question #131. What are the account with Professional package of service benefits?

All accounts with Professional package of service can access these features:

• Styles:


• Ability to have exact control over your journal's layout by creating S1 custom styles and S2 custom styles;


• Access to additional S2 styles;


• Access to all options in the S2 customization wizards and the Advanced Customization area;


• Access to 500 links in your S2 link list;


• Ability to have your journal's comment pages appear in the same style as your main journal page.



• Userpics:


• Access to 30 userpics.


• Ability to purchase up to 210 additional userpics.


• Ability to browse and search through your userpics when posting or commenting by clicking the "Choose userpic" button next to the userpic selection option.


• Note: Although communities with accounts with Professional package of service are given more userpics and can have add-on userpic space, neither maintainers nor members can select the userpics when posting entries;



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• Ability to view your own journal without ads while logged in.


• Ability to display your journal to all logged in visitors without ads.


• Ability to view the journals of others without ads while logged in.


• Ability to view other site pages without seeing most ads from external advertisers. (Promotions for LiveJournal entries, goods and services will still be visible, as will certain items like links to sponsored communities.)



• Access to the complete range of options for embedding your journal into your home page and the reverse ability to set up domain forwarding, so that your domain points to your LiveJournal;


• Ability to see up to 100 recent comments;


• Ability to expand collapsed comment threads, and to have other users expand collapsed comment threads in your journal or community with Professional package of service.


• Access to your Friends of Friends list: https://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friendsfriends/


• Ability to filter entries according to security when viewing your journal, as well as when viewing other journals.


• Ability to notify Weblogs.com of (public) updates to your journal.

The following features are available to communities with account with Professional package of service:

• Moderated communities can have larger moderation queue per user


• Owner and maintainer of community can send letters (mass mailing) for its members.

The following features only apply to personal accounts with Professional package of service, and cannot be accessed using a community with an account with Professional package of service:

• 100 Gb of storage space for Scrapbook pictures and videos


• Access to the Directory of LiveJournal users;


• Ability to create new syndicated accounts;


• Ability to view popular users amongst your friends;


• Ability to add up to 2000 users to your Friends list, instead of 1000 as permitted for accounts without additional packages.


• Ability to change the security setting of multiple entries in your journal, all at once.


• Ability to subscribe to a wide variety of event types;


• Ability to use Google Analytics;


• Ability to have more total subscriptions than accounts without additional packages.


• Ability to add notes for users.

You can buy an account with Professional package of service for yourself with automatic payments (automatic credit card payments according to your preferred billing cycle) or a manual payment at the LiveJournal Gift Shop. The US $19.95 a year price for accounts with Professional package of service is only available with automatic payments. Further information on how to purchase an account with Professional package of service may be found here.

Further Reading

• How do I buy a Professional package of service for somebody else or for a community?


• What happens to my account if my Professional package of service time expires?