WordPress

Overview
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WordPress
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.N/A
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Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Chose WordPress
WordPress relatively easy to use, especially for beginners, with an intuitive UI. WordPress has a massive user base, extensive plugin library, and support forums, making it easier to find solutions to problems or get assistance, if we stuck anywhere during the setup of website. …
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Not as user friendly, and much more bloated than these other lighter-weight CRMs, but the available integrations and total customization available from WordPress is unmatched in the industry.
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WordPress does well against HubSpot for support across a wide user base. It is easier to justify the cost for as opposed to needing to have a Web content platform and HubSpot in addition.
HubSpot is a bit easier for end users to create, maintain and publish content vs. …
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I used Wix and Squarespace for a few projects then I found WordPress, as a developer with programming background I needed the flexibility of adding a touch of code on my website be Wix did not allow me or give me that flexibility. WordPress gave me the room for customization …
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All these plugins and technology helped me to make our website more standing and add more functionality.
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Best plugin to help us achieve our goals on Google ranking
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WordPress is so much easier to use than either of the competitors we looked [into]. For us the decision was simple. WordPress allowed our non-designer staff to help out and get content loaded. It was an easy process that would have been much more complicated with the …
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It's the best option for hosting a blog on a website where you can also integrate all major marketing tools and platforms. WordPress gives you [the] freedom to use whatever tool works best for you and integrate it with your website and blog. It makes tracking, measuring, and …
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Easy to use and community support plus hosting companies tie-up with the WordPress to give a fast solution.
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WordPress is by far the best website CMS available on the market. It is an open-source free solution with endless possibilities of websites that you can build. You don't need to be a developer to build a site, but there are options to use code to take your website to the next …
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We've only used WordPress--haven't needed to evaluate another platform.
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I've used other website builders in the past that worked fine but didn't offer the same level of customization that WordPress offers.
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WordPress allows you to launch an extensible site on ready-made templates much faster, and not just a landing page.
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It is the best and free platform if you compare others and if you will use WordPress you don't have to know how to code. Basic information will be more than enough to start. Creating pages and editing posts you created is so easy to manage. If you use other platforms, it will …
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I think WordPress is a superior platform compared to others because of the vast number of plugins and themes. Developers are always creating more plugins and functionality for WordPress as well, so it is constantly being improved upon. There are limitless possibilities for what …
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There are other CMS and website builders in the market and while they do offer their own value, their number of developers, ability to customize and add functionality to the site, is very limited as well as their number of themes. They can't compare SEO-wise, and you can't …
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For most small businesses, Squarespace is a better option. It provides all of the basic and intermediate functionality a business owner could want (e-commerce, forms, media, blog, etc) without the plugin and hacking nightmares of WordPress. It's also easier for clients to …
Chose WordPress
WordPress is the grandest of Wix and Squarespace just alone in how many theme and plug-in options you can have access to. Also SEO is another big role in comparison – better SEO with WordPress
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I chose WordPress over the competition after copious research into the best blog software options. WordPress was consistently praised for it's SEO abilities, it's ease of use, and the wealth of add-ons and plug-ins that can expand it's functionality. It was easy to download, …
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Unless you have a very small e-commerce store, WordPress is a much better option. A WordPress site integrated with WooCommerce is a powerful shop tool, and if you aren't selling online, then WordPress is assuredly the way to go. Their WYSIWYG editor makes things as easy as can …
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WordPress was an excellent balance between allowing options for customization and giving us reasonable efficiency in development and content administration. We still use other tools for certain cases, such as when we need to launch a smaller site quickly or when we need very …
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We only build and support websites on WordPress and Joomla!. In general, WordPress is a good fit for our smaller clients who want to handle all of the maintenance and updates themselves. Our clients with larger and more complex content needs, or more sophisticated …
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I found WordPress to be a bit easier to navigate through and better suited to an all around website creation. Squarespace is geared specifically towards eCommerce while Wix felt the most artsy of the three. WordPress feels like a middle ground with great customization options …
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WordPress is more popular and has more default templates for website creation. Moreover, it is easy to use. The availability of large communities makes it easier to fix any encountered bug or problem during the development process. Apart from this, WordPress is open source and …
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Features
WordPress
Security
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WordPress
8.2
127 Ratings
2% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.2127 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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WordPress
6.4
104 Ratings
18% below category average
API6.394 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language6.679 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
WordPress
8.1
133 Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor8.3120 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.3121 Ratings
Admin section8.6131 Ratings
Page templates8.3128 Ratings
Library of website themes8.5130 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.6129 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.5125 Ratings
Form generator6.3104 Ratings
Web Content Management
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WordPress
7.9
131 Ratings
7% above category average
Content taxonomy7.0113 Ratings
SEO support8.2118 Ratings
Bulk management7.5100 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.5121 Ratings
Community / comment management8.5120 Ratings
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User Ratings
WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(169 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(36 ratings)
Usability
9.6
(16 ratings)
Availability
9.5
(3 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(10 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(9 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
WordPress
Likelihood to Recommend
Automattic
If your business relies heavily on content creation, and particularly on blog posts, then WordPress is really the best option you have. But if you don't have a blog, you only need static pages, or you want to build an eCommerce site, then you might want to explore other alternatives.
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Pros
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  • WordPress is incredibly easy to set up and get running with little to no technical knowledge. Most web hosts will do it for you, since it's so easy.
  • With thousands of themes available for free and for low cost, WordPress can accommodate any design you can imagine.
  • The community behind WordPress is generous, and there are loads of educational opportunities both online and in person to learn and connect with other users.
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Cons
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  • WordPress breaks often so you need to have someone who understands how to troubleshoot, which can take time and money.
  • Some plugins are easier to customize than others, for example, some don't require any coding knowledge while others do. This can limit your project if you are not a coder.
  • WordPress can be easily hacked, so you also need someone who can ensure your sites are secure.
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Likelihood to Renew
Automattic
My rating is based on the knowledge I have of the community that WordPress has had built around it for years now. It's as solid as it comes when you talk about community involvement and expansion. There's no other CMS out there that can match-up with it, hands down.
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Usability
Automattic
It's a sophisticated but easy to use piece of software. Many of the content addition pieces are familiar from other pieces of software so there isn't a huge learning curve. And for new areas, there is a lot of info on WordPress.org as well as other WordPress help sites.
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Reliability and Availability
Automattic
Anyone can visit WordPress.org and download a fully functional copy of WordPress free of charge. Additionally, WordPress is offered to users as open-source software, which means that anyone can customize the code to create new applications and make these available to other WordPress users.
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Performance
Automattic
Mostly, any performance issues have to do with using too many plugins and these can sometimes slow down the overall performance of your site. It is very tempting to start adding lots of plugins to your WordPress site, however, as there are thousands of great plugins to choose from and so many of them help you do amazing things on your site. If you begin to notice performance issues with your WordPress site (e.g. pages being slow to load), there are ways to optimize the performance of your site, but this requires learning the process. WordPress users can learn how to optimize their WordPress sites by downloading the WPTrainMe WordPress training plugin (WPTrainMe.com) and going through the detailed step-by-step WordPress optimization tutorials.
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Support Rating
Automattic
WordPress itself only has community service so your experience will depend on where you turn. Online, through forums and community boards, support is rudimentary but effective. You can easily turn to your local community and find exceptional individuals who know and use WordPress regularly for more advanced, inexpensive, support. I'm rating this less than 10 because of the lack of any formal support provided by a company.
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In-Person Training
Automattic
Varies by the person providing training. High marks as it's incredibly easy to find experienced individuals in your community to provide training on any aspect of WordPress from content marketing, SEO, plugin development, theme design, etc. Less than 10 though as the training is community based and expectations for a session you find may fall short.
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Online Training
Automattic
It is very easy to find online resources to learn how to do just about anything with WordPress.
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Implementation Rating
Automattic
WordPress is not a great solution if you have: 1) A larger site with performance / availability requirements. 2) Multiple types of content you want to share - each with its own underlying data structure. 3) Multiple sites you need to manage. For very small sites where these needs are not paramount, WordPress is a decent solution
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Alternatives Considered
Automattic
We have considered and operated within Shopify and Squarespace. Both serve their purpose for niche clients, but we do recommend WordPress as being the superior option. We find that WordPress is easier to use and offers maximum scalability while the others are more challenging to design, code, configure and launch.
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Scalability
Automattic
WordPress is completely scalable. You can get started immediately with a very simple "out-of-the box" WordPress installation and then add whatever functionality you need as and when you need it, and continue expanding. Often we will create various WordPress sites on the same domain to handle different aspects of our strategy (e.g. one site for the sales pages, product information and/or a marketing blog, another for delivering products securely through a private membership site, and another for running an affiliate program or other application), and then ties all of these sites together using a common theme and links on each of the site's menus. Additionally, WordPress offers a multisite function that allows organizations and institutions to manage networks of sites managed by separate individual site owners, but centrally administered by the parent organization. You can also expand WordPress into a social networking or community site, forums, etc. The same scalability applies to web design. You can start with a simple design and then scale things up to display sites with amazing visual features, including animations and video effects, sliding images and animated product image galleries, elements that appear and fade from visitor browsers, etc. The scaling possibilities of WordPress are truly endless.
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Return on Investment
Automattic
  • WordPress helps us reduce website management costs because we can oversee updates in-house.
  • WordPress is easy to use, reducing the amount of time we spend on website management.
  • The ease of use enables us to offer website management for clients, helping us grow our capabilities/business.
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