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Easy and very customizable web page building

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WordPress for multiple websites in our business. We previously had a different approach to building a webpage, but quickly realized, that many things we wanted to implement were not possible, or we were stuck with that one web designer who were never able to reach. Since switching to WordPress we can change things on the webpage easily, can integrate many other apps and resources by ourselves and have an online presence that seems trustworthy and modern.

Pros

Webpage building
App integration
Web design
Security updates

Cons

Full variability in design
Integration of some apps
Easier to navigate back end

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are a beginner in web design and you want to have your own website without much hassle WordPress is well suited. It is easy to change many things by yourself, easy to add plugins to cater more to your individual needs and cannot be used just as a blog but a full website. If you want a super personalized version not supported by WordPress, than it is obviously not for your business.

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Corporate (Information Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Great open source product.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a primary CMS for our marketing website. We publish regular updates, blog posts, and events for our end customers. Wordpress and its plugins form an essential part of our online presence. Apart from our internal tooling, it is the main way we communicate with our customers.

Pros

Plugins
Themes
Range of customizations.

Cons

Speed
Ease of use.
Editors

Likelihood to Recommend

Wordpress is well suited for small and large applications; however, we can imagine choosing a different solution that can scale more easily, which is better for large-scale applications. We see that Wordpress gets very slow (depending on hosting, caching, and other things), but for a large-scale application, Wordpress needs a lot of customization to work.

Verified User

Manager (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Wonderful open source community

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a web marketing consultant specializing in websites that run on WordPress. I and my clients use WordPress to manage content, build attractive websites, and develop online communities. I have a couple clients that host their websites or use other services offered by Automattic, but most are independently hosted and use only the open-source WordPress offerings.

Pros

content management
excellent community of plugin and addon developers
easy to create custom designs to suit a particular organization

Cons

Automattic,in my opinion, the company that drives most of the WordPress core development, and its founder, have had a concerning track record of inappropriate and reactionary policies toward its competitors and the community as a whole.
“WordPress” can be challenging to learn, especially for new users, because it is not a single product. Rather, it is an ecosystem and a platform with developers and plugins from many different sources, of varying quality. It is imporatnt to have an expert help curate the software being used so that it runs smoothly and so that new users have a frame of reference for what they need to learn.
As with any open source project, development does not always follow a predictable schedule. New features may or may not be ready when expected.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would unequivocally recommend WordPress for anyone building a website. It is an incredibly powerful and flexible platform that can do virtually anything a website might need, by way of its array of plugins and add-on services available from various developers.

However, if someone is looking for a set-it-and-forget-it plug and play solution, or does not want to be bothered with technical details, WordPress is not a good choice unless you have an expert to help with these details.

Kenneth Gourlay

Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Http Us (Internet, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Cast iron reliability just don't expect agility!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WordPress as the CMS for our two main marketing sites as it offers standardised integrations, content management, and user management that both our internal team and external talent find it familiar to work on.
We do not have a complex or ecommerce use case so WordPress has proven sufficient for our requirements.

Pros

Content management
Reliability
Integrations

Cons

Difficult to add & remove components without coding
Styling elements can be overruled by site code
Unintuitive editors/plugins not aligned with WP UI/UX

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is well suited if your offering, web design and branding are well-established. It is very reliable and fairly straightforward to update websites as your business grows.
It is less appropriate if your business is likely to go through significant changes in branding, positioning, or product catalogue. This will require significant input from a developer who can write the necessary code to update pages as required.

Richard Sweeting

Marketing Operations Manager in Marketing at AOT Technologies (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

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6 years of experience

Grateful for an affordable creative website platform!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have two WordPress websites, and I love the platform. I pay to host my website with an upgraded plan, but even when I was using the free version, I appreciated the functionality and usability of the editing software. There are thousands of templates to select from, and switching between templates is not too difficult. I reached out to customer service multiple times with issues or questions, and I always have received great responses and assistance in managing my websites. I recommend WordPress for folks who don't have a budget to pay a website designer. I plan to continue using WordPress for years to come.

Pros

User interface
Thousands of design templates to choose from
Customer service is helpful

Cons

Offering a starter plan that is low-cost
User guides

Likelihood to Recommend

I also recommend WordPress for folks who are running blogs or who need a landing site to direct folks to in order to maintain communication or advertise a product or service. I think other website platforms are better for folks who want to list and sell products through their website.

Kelsey May Fraser

Executive Editor at HYYPE (Writing & Editing, 1-10 employees)

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10 years of experience

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WordPress is a great basic blog and website platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 4, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress for my main blog and essay archive. It's a homebase of sort for my other publications.

Pros

Easy to use
Good basic tools
Can't beat the cost for the baseline options (free)

Cons

Security and SEO are a little outdated
Falling behind in terms of deliverability options
Chaos within company management is worrying

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great basic option for hosting a blog or other website. A lot easier and cheaper than most other options.

Colin Wright

Owner at Understandary (Publishing, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Swiss Army Knife of Website CMS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 5, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress to create a stunning and interactive website for my business and the clients who hire me to build them a website. I've used it in the past to build e-commerce websites, intranet sites for companies, blogs, and many other types of websites. WordPress is a simple solution to create stunning websites in minutes.

Pros

Open Source.
Easy to manage.
Great templates and plugins.
Easy install and maintenance.

Cons

Dashboard interface needs update.
User management.
Updates sometimes break the site.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is a great solution for any sized business looking to launch a website for their company. I have used WordPress to build a website for a large company with thousands of clients, as well as a small podcast with just a few listeners. It really is the Swiss Army Knife of website builders and can work for most business or personal scenarios.

Tom Mulhern

Freelance Web and Graphic Designer in Marketing at Boombox Creative (Media Production, 1-10 employees)

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10 years of experience

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

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

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.

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Want a great blog? WordPress! Want to be confused for a week? WordPress!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My media company wanted to start a blog, and WordPress is currently one of the gold standards in blog writing. It has a variety of tools to both build the look and usability of a blog, but also ways to edit content to maximize search engine results and optimization. The learning curve is very steep (for me at least) but it is a very established program which means there's tons of instructional content online such as videos and how-to's

Pros

Built in search engine optimization makes it easy to maximize the chances your content shows up in people's searches
There are very substantial design tools to ensure the blog you are designing is stylish while still being very user-friendly
It is a very widely used program, and is updated often. These updates are automatic and ensure your website is constantly compatible with current internet technology

Cons

There is almost too many options, and built in tutorials are insufficient. 3rd party videos and walk throughs are almost unavoidable
The page design tools sometimes fight each other. More drag and drop features that interact with each other would be better
The ability to type a blog in Microsoft Word and then drop it into WordPress, and then have WordPress evaluate and format the document would be nice. I'm almost certain it has this function already, but I spent 3 days trying to make it work to no avail, which means the program is not easy enough.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are wanting to start a blog and want it to look professional, maximize your search optimization, and potentially develop a passive source of income, WordPress is a great option. Just be patient because it takes a lot of time to learn, and sometimes you have to start with a preset and then bend it into what you want it to look like, as oppose to creating it from scratch.

Daniel Epstein

Producer/Videographer/Editor at Firefilm Productions (Media Production, 1-10 employees)

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1 year of experience

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An open-source tool to build responsive web sites

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 27, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our organization, we use WordPress to build the web application that supports our machine learning models and natural language processing research work. It helps us to present our work in the most elegant and understandable way. Apart from this, we also used WordPress to build a portfolio website of our group to showcase the team members and their contribution to the research group.

Pros

It provides flexibility in building websites.
It contains number of add-ons that help in building single-page web applications like the modern web framework these days.
It allows users to choose from various available web templates to build a website from scratch.
It can be used by even novice developers who just started building web sites.

Cons

The huge number of available visual templates makes it difficult to chose the best one for the purpose of building a website.

Likelihood to Recommend

WordPress is one of the best tools available to build responsive and attractive websites. It can be used by both new developers and professionals to develop cool and useful web applications. Designing and web framing using the WordPress is so easy and flexible, which means one can experiment with the thousands of available templates and build an application that is best suited for them.

Kunal Verma

Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Want a great blog? WordPress! Want to be confused for a week? WordPress!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Built in search engine optimization makes it easy to maximize the chances your content shows up in people's searches
There are very substantial design tools to ensure the blog you are designing is stylish while still being very user-friendly
It is a very widely used program, and is updated often. These updates are automatic and ensure your website is constantly compatible with current internet technology

Cons

There is almost too many options, and built in tutorials are insufficient. 3rd party videos and walk throughs are almost unavoidable
The page design tools sometimes fight each other. More drag and drop features that interact with each other would be better
The ability to type a blog in Microsoft Word and then drop it into WordPress, and then have WordPress evaluate and format the document would be nice. I'm almost certain it has this function already, but I spent 3 days trying to make it work to no avail, which means the program is not easy enough.

Likelihood to Recommend

Daniel Epstein

Producer/Videographer/Editor at Firefilm Productions (Media Production, 1-10 employees)

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1 year of experience

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