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A clunky, vulnerable, outdated CMS with more problems than benefits

Rating: 4 out of 10

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August 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the first four years of my freelancing career, I built custom WordPress websites for small business clients. The highly-flexible platform allowed me to customize both the front and back end of my clients' websites to meet their exact specifications. When they needed new functionality, it was often as simple as installing a free plugin.

Pros

massive library of free and paid plugins
ability to build absolutely anything
thriving community for support and troubleshooting

Cons

plugins often cause breaking problems with websites
codebase is a mess
plugins make sites vulnerable to attack

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is a great option for businesses who need a custom website, but need to start from a template, because they can't afford to start completely from scratch. It also makes sense for web developers who are just starting out and don't know enough code to start from scratch either.

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Strategist in Engineering (Media Production company, 1-10 employees)

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4 years of experience

From simple to powerful website during the month

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When I had a question with the development of a corporate website, we had 3 ways - to do it ourselves from scratch, to outsource it, to do it on ready-made CMS. Outsourcing for a young start-up is expensive and to make from a scratch also was not a variant, since we have already made our main product from scratch.
When choosing a CMS, I had several options, but I settled on WordPress and did not regret it later.
We bought a ready-made template that was very suitable for us and in days, not months, filled it with content and changed it a little visually.
The result is simply stunning and we like it.

Pros

Tons of extensions.
A millions of great templates for every case.
Simple but powerful admin interface.
More then enough educational courses and videos.

Cons

The code style to make own extensions.
The speed of engine, especially with extensions installed.
Many things could be placed into the basic distributive not in the plugins.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to make a good and future-expandable website simply and quickly without involving programmers, then of course pay attention to WordPress. If it's just a landing page, then you can choose another online website builder.
When choosing WordPress, be prepared for the fact that a lot of things are implemented in plugins here, but you have to pay for all the good things. And therefore, the cost of ownership can be quite high over time.

Oleksandr Torlo

Product R&D Manager in Engineering at intelza.ai (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Wordpress is the best cheap CMS to build fast

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress was used by 3 very high-volume news websites acquired by my previous company. It was used to quickly build a cheap, high-functioning suite of sites to collect data and email addresses and serve ads. I would definitely use it again despite the vitriol it gets from the development community.

Pros

Cheap.
Fast, largely because of prebuilt solutions.
A lot developers with prior experience.

Cons

Custom development can be a pain if things get complicated, especially with everything using a global state.
Often developers are more accustomed to site-building and not custom development, so you can inherit a sloppy site possibly with poor performance.
It may be more difficult to scale custom code if the site has extremely high usage, particularly because there are so few tables used.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is extremely well-suited for news, blog, and basic sites particularly if they are higher volume and you want a cheap and fast solution without much configuration. It is not well-suited if you want to design every aspect of the site and how it works rather than just using a plugin. Especially if there is a lot of backend complexity.

Josh Stapp

Lead Developer in Engineering at EnsembleIQ (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

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1 year of experience

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WordPress is a worthy CMS and blogging platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress is a pretty malleable platform. It can be used as a simple website, blog, or you can extend it with a variety of plugins to morph it into almost anything else. I have deployed this as both a website and a blog in multiple instances. I've also used plugins to secure the site as well as add additional features such as file sharing and media. It's free software that can be quickly deployed and is relatively simple to run. Low cost and overhead make this a great tool.

Pros

Static web pages provide basic functionality that any CMS should.
Dynamic content such as blog entries extends this functionality.

Cons

Plugin security can be difficult as they are supplied by vendors of varying quality.
There is a slight learning curve to developing new themes for WordPress.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is an excellent platform for static and dynamic content. It has a variety of uses beyond this such as storefronts, file hosting, and more. Care must be taken to ensure the security of the platform, however. Fortunately, between a few excellent security-related plugins and the ability to deploy this in a container, much of the security concern can be mitigated.

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Engineer in Engineering (Computer & Network Security company, 1-10 employees)

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3 years of experience

Quick, intuitive solution for hosting a blog/site

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 26, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress is used to host all of our blog posts and pages on a server purely serving these pages. We use it as a combination of a CMS, editor, and designer for all of our articles and pages. It is used mostly by Engineers writing articles or founders writing updates on progress.

Pros

Super intuitive, well-designed UI. WordPress is one of the older, more developed CMS products out there, and their UI has gotten very good through the versions.
Integrated SEO. This is a really helpful tool. There is no need to export blog/article info and add it to an SEO service, it's mostly done within WordPress.
Full customizability. There is an extensive list of plugins, themes, etc. that can be added to WordPress sites, and the general compatibility of software with WordPress is really good.

Cons

Open-source. WordPress is all open-source, so sites can be more vulnerable generally, but this also makes the process of releasing and integrating updates into WordPress sites super transparent.
Speed. There are definitely parts of the UI that are still quite slow and decrease in speed as you increase the amount of content on WordPress sites.
HTML/CSS skills are necessary. While WordPress does simplify the process of developing any sort of website, there is still not enough customizability for it to be possible to edit websites without purely without using HTML/CSS. It's necessary to either improve the customizability function of WordPress or have knowledge of HTML/CSS.

Likelihood to Recommend

For companies that are looking to quickly publish any sort of material online, WordPress serves as a great CMS and site-editing software. It is truly possible to publish an extensive site very quickly with WordPress. For companies that require more custom functions, integrations, and specific features, it is probably a better idea to just develop a website using a contemporary web framework.

Fedor Paretsky

Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

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Great for Small Business

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is used for the main organization's website. It helps us host and update the website on our own without getting IT involved. It also hosts our blog for us. It can help us schedule posts and save drafts so we can work on something together as a team without posting first.

Pros

It has a lot of blog options.
The pricing is very fair, not too expensive..
Its simple and user friendly.
You don't have to be a computer expert to use this.

Cons

I wish they had more all-inclusive features like an email campaign program or a photo editing program.
There is no drag and drop tool.
I wish there was a place I could call for tech support.

Likelihood to Recommend

Word Press is great for a small organization or business that wants to build and run their own website without too many complications. Its a simple program. Larger companies might want to use something else that can be more customized.

Adam Montgomery

Energy Efficiency Consultant in Engineering at SEMCO (Renewables & Environment, 11-50 employees)

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3 years of experience

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WordPress from developer point of view

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use wordpress across the whole organization as our main landing page which redirects to our products or services. The main problem with wordpress is that we can't process payment through it, it's not secure at all.

Pros

Blog Posts or Pages
Easy description of your business
Easy Development
Fast conversion rates

Cons

Customitzation
Security
More control over the plugins that are released

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to have a main page of your product and have your own implementation, that will give you more reliability than having a WordPress [page].

Cristian Vitales Muñoz

CTO and Co-Founder in Engineering at FindThatLead (Internet, 1-10 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Quick, intuitive solution for hosting a blog/site

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 26, 2019

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Pros

Super intuitive, well-designed UI. WordPress is one of the older, more developed CMS products out there, and their UI has gotten very good through the versions.
Integrated SEO. This is a really helpful tool. There is no need to export blog/article info and add it to an SEO service, it's mostly done within WordPress.
Full customizability. There is an extensive list of plugins, themes, etc. that can be added to WordPress sites, and the general compatibility of software with WordPress is really good.

Cons

Open-source. WordPress is all open-source, so sites can be more vulnerable generally, but this also makes the process of releasing and integrating updates into WordPress sites super transparent.
Speed. There are definitely parts of the UI that are still quite slow and decrease in speed as you increase the amount of content on WordPress sites.
HTML/CSS skills are necessary. While WordPress does simplify the process of developing any sort of website, there is still not enough customizability for it to be possible to edit websites without purely without using HTML/CSS. It's necessary to either improve the customizability function of WordPress or have knowledge of HTML/CSS.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fedor Paretsky

Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

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