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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.
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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.
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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.
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August 13, 2021
WordPress, gotta have it
WordPress is used for Berlin Grey's website and it's always the first recommended CMS for any of our clients looking to get a website made.
- Has a lot of plugin options
- A lot of theme varieties
- Adaptability and versatility
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
- 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
- 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.
August 02, 2021
Industry Standard for a REason
We use WordPress for our website and have implemented WordPress for multiple companies. This has proven to be the easiest and best platform for websites. The editing interface is very easy and makes it very easy to give customers the ability to edit their site themselves. We implement WordPress for nearly every website client.
- Great editing ability
- Lots of plugins to increase functionality
- Could clean-up the backend to make it even more user friendly
July 30, 2021
Industry-leading options from a free platform
We use WordPress as the technology behind our main corporate website. My department maintains it, but it is leveraged by the whole organization. It has proven to be an extremely versatile system when combined with other plugins over time. We have built on the X theme with a lot of success.
- Flexibility
- Stability
- Ease of use
- Plugins are easy to find and install
- Requires outside plugins and themes for most functions
- Support and documentation is available but unreliable
- Can be conflicts between the many themes and plugins needed
WordPress is the most-used content management system in the world. Because of its ubiquity, we use it on about half of our clients' websites. While our current website is powered by WordPress and has been since 2015, we will be switching to a different platform later this year. Generally, it presents a quick and (mostly) free way to get a presence on the internet, with tons of free themes, plugins, and integrations that make it fairly easy to create a custom website for your business or hobby.
- 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.
- While WordPress bills itself as easy to use, some users will need to get expert help for more complex tasks.
- Because the WordPress plugin ecosystem is so large, it's not uncommon to run into plugin conflicts. Troubleshooting those can be frustrating, and they can cause your website to crash.
- There are some fairly basic CMS capabilities that WordPress cannot perform out of the box, which means you need to install a plugin to accomplish them. Of course, with more plugins comes more upkeep and more potential for conflicts.
July 29, 2021
WordPress - great for a company website!
We use WordPress as our platform for designing our company website. The WordPress website is invaluable to our business model, as it serves as the home base that all our other online channels drive people to in order for them to learn about our company and the services we offer.
- Easy to design a site
- Multiple templates available
- Easy to update and maintain the website
- Documentation could be better
WordPress has been a huge help in managing and creating websites both for my side graphic and web design business as well as for my clients. Through the use of their system I am able to quickly and easily setup and launch a clients new website by customizing a theme the client likes with colors, text, and layout. Because WordPress tends to be very user friendly, it's also easy to pass the management of the site over to the client once it's created.
- WordPress websites are easily customizable
- WordPress is very user friendly and fairly intuitive
- WordPress is cost effective
- If you're looking for an ecommerce platform, there may be stronger options
- The plug and play nature of some themes lacks full customization in some areas
- It's easy to get lost in the weeds on the backend of some Wordpress features
July 27, 2021
An open-source tool to build responsive web sites
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.
- 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.
- The huge number of available visual templates makes it difficult to chose the best one for the purpose of building a website.
I've used Wordpress for more than a decade at various organizations and in my own personal life. I've used it largely for blogging, sharing our news and content with my organizations' audiences. Due to its nature as a blog, it allows for a more casual tone and a more direct way to speak directly with our users.
- Ease of use
- Robust features
- Variety of attractive themes
- Has been slower to keep up with competitors in overall look and design
- Limited options for use other than a traditional blog
July 22, 2021
Wordpress is my first choice for sites
Wordpress is being used for our site across the board. It is very versatile in that there are plugins for almost any function you can think of and if there isn't one, it's easy for a developer to create and add to the site. With Wordpress you have maximum control over site functionality and design.
- There are many plugins ready to add to your site.
- You have full creative control over how you develop your site.
- There are many people out there with extensive blogs to help troubleshoot issues.
- If you are after a simple drag and drop type site then wordpress may be too difficult for you.
I use WordPress for my corporate website. I needed a website to back up my brand, showcase the services I offer, and function as a showpiece website to show other businesses what I'm capable of for website development.
- Ease of use
- Availability of a diverse range of themes, plugins and related services
- Stable and powerful platform to build a variety of web projects
- Open source allows you to move it to new hosts as needed (unlike Wix, Squarespace, etc.)
- Web standard for websites
- Ability to disable Gutenberg built-in
- Enhanced security options within WordPress itself
July 18, 2021
WordPress in the classroom... a winner!
I use [WordPress] in the classroom to assist students with becoming familiar with the platform and sharing their ideas. The class is an AP Computer Science Principles class and we try to expose the students to a wide variety of technologies and platforms. I like [WordPress] because we can lock it down and have their posts visible only to the teacher and other students in the class without exposing their information to the world at large.
- GUI is easy to use
- Security is easy to implement
- Mobile and browser-based platforms improve accessibility
- Themes and other creative elements are an excellent way for students to express themselves
- A bit more scrutiny on extensions would be helpful, especially where there are multiple vendors with similar products
- A clearer delineation between free and premium ($$) features/extensions (I need to keep everything free for students in the classroom)
July 15, 2021
WordPress Wins Best in Class
We use WordPress for our company website and the majority of our client websites. We custom-build all of our websites to cater to the needs of each client and WordPress makes it easy to configure the backend. Not only are we able to easily train teammates and clients but we are also able to showcase their beautiful work and purposeful missions!
- Custom features
- Secure
- Budget-conscious
- Continue to add to backend options
- Offer more details about plugins
- Offer more how-to/coding information
We recommend [WordPress] as a platform to many our clients since it's a CMS that can be optimized for speed and performance which is critical for the type of digital marketing services we offer our clients. We also own a cannabis and CBD lifestyle publication that is built on WordPress.
- Speed and performance (depending on the theme)
- It's been around so long that there are plugins for just about everything
- It's widely used so most developers are familiar with it
- The flip side of most of the previous question - so if the wrong theme is used, sites can be very slow and perform poorly
- Many times you wind up with a ton of plugins of questionable value from different people adding them over time, which can slow the site down
- It can be slow going to figure out how to input content depending on how devs have configured the backend
I have used WordPress across a couple different organizations for marketing sites. It was able to be utilized by less technical people, which is a win. It allows a business to spin up a site quickly.
- Spin up a site quickly
- Less technical people can use
- Has plugins that you can utilize
- It is more difficult to build custom functionality
- We have found when we built out custom sites, we got better load times
- I think it could have better documentation for its plugins
We use WordPress to host our marketing websites for our companies and products. We do graphic design in house and outsource custom theming and development to freelancers. WordPress being so popular means that the availability of freelancers for just about anything you would want to do in WordPress is available at reasonable cost.
- Broad User Base
- Open Source Flexibility
- Fast to get started
- Breaking changes with Plugins & Themes
- Security, Backups, & Updates easily forgotten about
- Managed WordPress becomes a trade off between flexibility and ease of management
June 28, 2021
Helpful documentation tool for complex products
We are using WordPress in our organization for an internal-facing tech support documentation site for our digital learning platform. Our client services representatives reference this site when troubleshooting client issues, and our digital content managers use it as a reference as to how to build content on the platform. It is not used by any other department, as far as I know.
- You can control who has access to the site and what parts of the site different users have access to. Great for when different roles use the same site.
- You can format tech support articles with pictures, step by step instructions, etc.
- The theming is flexible, especially if you know how to incorporate HTML or CSS into your site.
- The interface takes some getting used to and there can be kind of a steep learning curve for new site editors/creators
- It suffers slightly from too much complexity. There are a lot of formatting options, particularly once you get into the CSS world, and it can be overwhelming for the non-tech-savvy
- Unless you have systems that are integrated with WordPress, if you have a lot of users who need access to different parts of your site, it can be cumbersome for the admin to handle.
June 26, 2021
WordPress is the best!
I have used WordPress for over 10 years building websites for our companies and clients. We manage all of our sites with WordPress and always recommend that others use WordPress as well because of the simplicity of programing and managing a website. We often create a website and hand it to the client to manage. In some cases they aren't experienced enough or have enough time to manage it and we have to help. But in many cases, clients are able to manage the website through WordPress on their own. WordPress is so useful for individuals who do not know how to code a website and even if they do, I would still recommend using WordPress without question.
- Simple interface
- Lots of options and plugins
- Website management layout pages/posts, etc.
- Settings are easy to update
- Everyone uses it so there are lots of templates and companies with WordPress integration
- With so many plugin options, there are many that don't work
- There are always lots of spam comments on blog posts
- Many plugins have a free version and charge for any reasonable functionality, and it's difficult to know that without testing the plugin out first, which is annoying.
We use WordPress as our website platform for a range of different websites that we use in our business. We have our main business website with our marketing and information etc, then we also run an eCommerce site and 3 different membership portals for delivering online training. WordPress allows us to flexibly create these sites, to control membership logins, to charge for individual purchases or recurring memberships, and to allow various members of our team and admin staff to add and update pages inside our membership portals.
- WordPress is so popular that it has thousands of addons, creating huge flexibility to handle almost any need you can imagine
- WordPress can be set up to allow users at various levels to access or edit different pages or areas within the site. This is perfect for membership sites.
- WordPress has thousands of different visual themes and huge flexibility within the design system so that it can look and feel the way we want our brand to be represented.
- WordPress has a huge array of plugins and visual themes available, which makes it super powerful but also, unfortunately, means it is sometimes difficult to know the best or easiest way to accomplish a specific goal.
- When editing a site, the default built-in editor is clunky to use, so we always install one of the freely available "visual editor" plugins that helps with page layout and editing.
- The "plain" wordpress that is first installed is quite basic and it needs plugins and themes to make it work better. These are readily available but if you've never used them before it can be difficult to set these up.
June 18, 2021
Popular and Modern CMS
The basis of my business is selling via the Internet, namely, through the website. I chose WordPress as the CMS for my website. The online store functionality also required the WooCommerce plugin. Many people think that WordPress is only suitable for blogs, however, I dare say that the combination of WordPress and WooCommerce allows you to create great online stores. WordPress has a great user-friendly interface and allows you to create a full-fledged website in just a few clicks.
- Free open source CMS.
- Comprehensive documentation.
- User-friendly interface.
- Unfortunately, WordPress still doesn't have a built-in backup functionality.
- There is also no built-in SEO functionality.
June 15, 2021
WordPress
WordPress runs a few of our smaller sites on campus. It has been a tool that is easy to adopt and the admins are generally happy with it. I like that you can use the add ons that make sense for what you are trying to deliver with the software.
- Flexibility
- Easy hosting options
- Too many options
June 14, 2021
WordPress is a Long Time Favorite
Our organization uses the WordPress network to structure and organize over 500 websites built with WordPress. We are able to manage pre-approved plugins, themes, users, etc. This greatly ensures our websites are safe, organized, and manageable. It also makes it easier for our users to get started creating their website because we give them templates and plugins that meet most if not all of their needs.
- Easy to use and setup
- Plugins make it easy to quickly add capabilities
- One click installs with hosting companies make it easy to get WP up and running
- Built in spam filtering rather than depend on plugins(s)
June 10, 2021
WordPress - Simple as it Sounds!
WordPress is used throughout my company for a variety of reasons. Our office staff use it to run a company blog, which employees and customers use to find the latest news and information. We also use WordPress regularly to peruse other masons on the site - that way we can see what we're up against.
- User-Friendly
- Aesthetically Pleasing
- Customer Service
- Name Recognition
- Advertising
- More Premium Options
- Integration With Other Software
WordPress is one of the two main content management systems used across our organization. It is used not only by our department but also by many teams at a local level (we have teams that serve on various college campuses across the U.S., in addition to a centralized IT department that focuses on large-scale projects). It solves the business need of having an easily scalable, usable CMS that can be broadly distributed, easily picked up, and easily managed by leaders and contributors across the country for managing their individual websites.
- Flexibility - WordPress is open source software that can be used and shared by anyone. It is easy to distribute to many different teams or contributors.
- Cost - the basic version of WordPress is free (you just have to pay for a domain and web hosting).
- Plugins - because WordPress is so popular, there are tons of customizable plugins available that make managing your website very easy.
- Support - again, because of the popularity and usage, there is a wealth of info, tutorials, and a dedicated community available to help with needs.
- Easy drag and drop functionality - WordPress has different types of website build editors that allow for very easy drag and drop functionality, and easy customization in a user-friendly interface.
- Dashboard structure - though it's overall pretty easy to use, the dashboard for WordPress may take some time to get used to, especially if you are coming from another CMS that does it differently. For instance, the difference between "Posts" and "Pages" can be confusing. Some of the organization of the dashboard menus seem incoherent as well (some sub-menus appear in places I wouldn't expect them to).
- Bulk actions - WordPress allows for doing bulk actions on many pages at once, but the choices of actions is pretty limited by default. I've encountered some situations where I had to get a developer to help me with what should have been a simple bulk action.
- Lack of a hierarchical content repository view for authors - WordPress lists all of your website pages together in a paginated interface. You aren't able to easily see your site's information architecture by drilling down in a folder-like structure (Note - it's possible there are customizations or plugins that do this - I'm speaking just on the default options that I have experience with).
June 02, 2021
WordPress is easy and fun to create with
WordPress is being used at multiple levels of the organization. It is used for the museum website, for the events website, for scholarships micro-sites, for chapters micro-sites. The biggest advantage of using WordPress at this level is granting the ability to non-technical staff to update and change these sites as required.
- Easy to change pages, create pages and add new content.
- Easy to add extra functionality through plugins.
- Ability to try different designs by applying different themes.
- Too many constant updates can pose a risk.
- Block system can be confusing for some versus the classic view.
- Too many plugins available that can pose security risks.