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Overview

What is WordPress?

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.

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Recent Reviews

Best Website CRM Tool

9 out of 10
July 02, 2022
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Admin section (131)
    8.6
    86%
  • Mobile optimization / responsive design (129)
    8.5
    85%
  • Library of website themes (130)
    8.4
    84%
  • Page templates (128)
    8.3
    83%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

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User Review: WordPress Maintains Ease of Use While Providing a Variety of Content Management Tools
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Content Manager Recommends WordPress for Growing Platforms: User Review
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User Review: WordPress Steps Up Blogger's Game With Its Professional Display Styles
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Pricing

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What is WordPress?

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.

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  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is Wix?

Wix is a free, hosted website builder, designed to be user-friendly and customizable without requiring coding from the user. It is well-known for its eCommerce solution, which allows users to build an online store.

What is Squarespace?

Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

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Product Demos

WordPress. Troubleshooter. Site Header Menu Missing Or Does Not Look Like Demo Header Menu

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How to make your website look like WordPress theme demo

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WordPress [#18] How to Install WordPress theme | Theme Demo Import | How to Reset WordPress Website

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Popup Maker Demo & Review | Plugin for Wordpress

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Revolution Slider for WordPress Full Demo

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WordPress Theme 1-Click Demo Import Explained

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.2
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

6.4
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.9
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is WordPress?

Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers and a content management system. The appearance of a Wordpress site and many of its functions are managed through themes, and further customizable through altering code, though altering code is not required; templates and plugins to expand its capabilities are plentiful. Wordpress features integrated link management, and a search-engine friendly permalink structure. WordPress now allows multiple blogs to exist within one installation. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

Wordpress is popular due to its simplicity and modifiability. Furthermore implementing Wordpress costs only time. Two paid versions exist. The $99 premium plan allows a user an ad free custom domain with 13GB of space and advanced customization. The $299 Business plan allows unlimited space and supports eCommerce as well.

WordPress Video

How to use WordPress, a step by step tutorial. Learn to when to use WordPress, how to install a theme, and how to use each of the program's tools.

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WordPress Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

LiveJournal and Populr are common alternatives for WordPress.

Reviewers rate Admin section highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of WordPress are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Shikher Goyal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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. WordPress is highly customizable as well.
Thomas Pittman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Alex Nejako | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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. WordPress. It also has a wider variety of features beyond Web content publishing/management.
Aprimo has had Web publishing features for over a decade and after a small amount of training, one can create Web Forms and Web pages inside the interface. I have not observed the same functionalities in Aprimo vs. WordPress for Couponing and Blogging, howeveer.
Collins Sarkodieh Aning | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 with lots of integration options as well
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 competitors. Additionally, the interface is easy to navigate by comparison and didn’t frustrate the non-tech savvy members of our staff.
Sebastian Correa Marsico | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Elementor, EasyWP, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Blogger, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, Tumblr, Mailchimp, Notion, Slack, Semrush, Ahrefs, Hotjar, FullStory, accessiBe, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), GoDaddy and Bluehost
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 analyzing data and performance much easier. And it has great tools to help optimize your content marketing efforts.
Tom Mulhern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 level.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 cost more and you need to code your website from A to Z. That's why WordPress is the best option.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 you can create through this platform. If you can dream it, you can likely do it with WordPress.
Ramon Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 really optimize the websites to run faster on those packaged builders because you can really optimize the server settings or code. So WordPress beats those all in one platform easily.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 manage on their own—with a visual interface, instead of clunky backend forms.
Daniel Epstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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, and the tutorials online are plentiful, albeit for a novice it can be very overwhelming.
Travis Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 be to update your content.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 specific functions that aren't easy to add in.
Lisa Keyser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 access/membership needs, we direct towards Joomla! because it has more out-of-the-box support for those. When we have run larger websites on WordPress, we occasionally run into compatibility issues, and find that many feature requests require additional plugins.
Jeff Huisjen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 and is easily accessible for the user.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 available for free to use to anyone, whereas Wix or Joomla provides only basic website builders.
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