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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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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.
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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.
LiveJournal and Populr are common alternatives for WordPress.
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I currently use WordPress for personal use. It's a fantastic option to try my hand at designing and creating my own website with the features I want. I chose WordPress to create a website to promote my products that I have for sale, and to offer more information about who I am and what my company offers.
- The price cannot be beat!
- So many features!
- Easy to learn and grow in experience with WordPress.
- N/A - I'm very happy with WordPress!
Our organization builds custom websites for external clients and WordPress is the CMS we use most frequently [use]. There is a lot of flexibility and customizability within [WordPress] and its plugins [...] allow us to easily add third-party integrations without much involvement from our development team. [WordPress} also provides an easy way for our teams and our clients to manage content for the site once it's live.
- Ease of use: once a site is built using [WordPress], it is easy to make content updates. Usually, you can just copy/paste your content into a simple text editor (similar to what you would see in a word processor) within WordPress and the content will look great on the frontend of the site.
- Plugins: Since [WordPress] is an industry standard CMS (content management system), most plugins are available and easy to use within WP.
- Customizability: [WordPress] is great out of the box, but you can use certain page builders that allow further customizability at the page-level.
- While the flexibility of [WordPress] is great, a first-time user with no development experience might need to spend some time getting adjusted to the platform. There's so much you can do with it that'd it would be easy to become overwhelmed.
- Sometimes when [WordPress] updates to a new version, certain functions are buggy for a time. [Usually bugs are minor and WordPress usually works out the issues quickly. Also, WordPress updates can cause bugs with plugins that have not yet adjusted to the update. In that case, it is up to the discretion of the plugin developer to fix the bug].
April 08, 2021
WordPress Review!
WordPress is recognized as a leading open source content management product capable of scaling and supporting small, medium and large organizations. I have typically worked with digital agencies to create brand sites for product promotions or create a digital presence for small and medium sized businesses.
If you have a need for a membership site, blog, or product site, WordPress is a flexible choice. As you move into larger enterprise scaled applications, you will need to address data integration and custom modules. However for a large majority of business owners, WordPress is an excellent choice to start a digital footprint.
If you have a need for a membership site, blog, or product site, WordPress is a flexible choice. As you move into larger enterprise scaled applications, you will need to address data integration and custom modules. However for a large majority of business owners, WordPress is an excellent choice to start a digital footprint.
- Blog publishing
- Open architecture enabling endless customizations
- Enables the individual entrepreneur and full sized businesses to create a digital platform
- Theme removal is manual on the server end. Adding that capability in the product would be helpful to clean up themes
- Improve speed without adding more speed or caching plugins
- Easier GUI to edit content blocks
April 07, 2021
Wordpress rocks; we love it
We use the platform for the front-end development of all our sites and pages--the platform just works well and we use it with Thrive Themes and connect it directly to our CRM. The biggest advantage we have always found with WordPress is that it simply works. We never have issues with it as a platform.
- Enables good page design
- Offers a wide range of plugins for specific additional features
- It is commonly understood, so development is smooth
- Some plugins have not been fully tested
- Some plugins conflict with others
- We wish there was a more consistant upgrade process
April 05, 2021
Solid, easily-extendable content management system
Our professional services department began using WordPress to create custom client websites 5-6 years ago. It provides a consistent framework for our projects, allowing us to create custom solutions while providing a solid, secure, and user-friendly experience for our customers.
- In-depth customization
- Well-developed ecosystem
- Open-source
- Opinionated development direction
- Frequent bugs / security flaws requiring updates
- Bloated if not using all features
April 05, 2021
Wordpress: Lotta options for not a lotta dough
WordPress is used by certain departments to publish their monthly newsletters. In this regard, it works very well - it's straightforward for users to use and it's even easier for us to implement. I have also recommended it to other people outside of our organization for use for their side-businesses because it's easy to secure, easy to add add-in products, and simple to write pages for. They do frequent security updates and so long as you're willing to keep up with the maintenance (once a month) it'll serve you well. The interface to write and design pages is very straightforward. They have a wide variety of free (and also paid-for) templates to design your page, but also supports custom written templates for pages. This makes it exceptionally extensible and customizable for almost every situation you can come up with. It allows departments to be responsible for their own pages, so Tech Staff aren't constantly updating webpages for other people. It certainly helps to free up Tech Staff time and also encourages people to be responsible for their own content.
- Web Page Customization - Allows our users to make and present content how they want to.
- Information Dispersal - Allows people outside the organization to see content easily.
- Security - If you're willing to run the updates and commit to best-practices, it's very secure.
- Backups - Backup functionality has largely been considered an add-on. It should really be built into the product from the get go.
- Walkthroughs - For new people it can take some getting used to. The product should have guides built in. They're available online but it can take some digging.
March 04, 2020
WordPress makes creating sites easy, even for amateurs!
We are using WordPress to create internal training and information sites. It's become a critical part of our training programs both internally and externally with clients.
- Easy to learn and train on - very intuitive.
- Easy to create easy to navigate and professional-looking sites.
- It can be shared easily internally and externally.
- I found it challenging to find support documents while I was in the training process on how to create a site.
- Save and publish can be confusing to some users.
February 26, 2020
WordPress is excellent for business websites
We have used WordPress for years to create websites for our businesses. We have one main business (our school) and some smaller businesses which we've also created websites for. It's great to be able to do everything online so we're not tethered to a specific computer. It's also very beneficial to have the regular security updates, to be able to change the look of our website quickly and easily in the form of themes, and the vast array of plugins that allow us to add many different features to our sites.
- Very user-friendly--you don't need to be a coding expert to create a website
- Lots of features--Just about any kind of functionality you can imagine there is a plugin for that
- It can be tough to sift through the various plugins, and not all are regularly updated
- Finding support can also be difficult. There is a free message board, but it's hit or miss.
January 28, 2020
Building websites quickly and easily with WordPress
WordPress is used and maintained by the marketing team and a third party company that hosts our portal/blog. It is used to present the company, products and ways of contacting customers and potential customers with the company. There is a blog where the marketing company publishes articles related to the company's field of activity as well as videos or texts explaining the technologies used in our products/services.
- Creating blog posts and sharing on social networks.
- Manage easily and quickly whether or not visitors can comment on publications.
- Application migration to another hosting.
- Custom changes to be maintained after updates.
January 07, 2020
WordPress for Blogging and Business
Score 9 out of 10
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WordPress is used to power my staffing organization's website for blogging, taking in resume's from job candidates, and for seeking business from employers. We use WordPress to handle form data, post regular content, and host media. WordPress is used by the entire organization, though it is only directly managed by the Strategy department. We have also used WordPress to handle a small amount of eCommerce.
- Simple to Use
- Highly Customizable
- Slow page speed compared to other options
- Can have security issues if not updated vigilantly
December 18, 2019
WordPress is the easy and simple way to go.
Currently, I use WordPress for my blog to create and distribute content. Additionally, I write for other media outlets that utilize the platform for their content.
- Easy to use themes available
- Free add on plugins
- Providing more integration with voice technology
- Providing CRM tools with the platform
December 18, 2019
Powerful Software Offers Lots of Customization at a Price
Early in my tenure at Bepress, we elected to revamp our corporate website and selected Wordpress as our solution of choice. This was the first time our company had worked with Wordpress, and to the extent that the corporate website is used by the whole organization I suppose it was used by the whole organization, however, the users were almost entirely the Marketing team.
- WordPress offers an intimidating array of customization features almost to the point of being overwhelming.
- LOTS of integration support.
- The UI can get quite complex at times, doesn't always feel intuitive to use.
- Poor support for copy-pasting in text from other software (such as Google Docs or Word), doesn't play well with others in this capacity.
December 13, 2019
WordPress is a worthy CMS and blogging platform
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.
- Static web pages provide basic functionality that any CMS should.
- Dynamic content such as blog entries extends this functionality.
- 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.
December 06, 2019
Unmatched CMS
It is being used across the whole organization as we begin replacing outdated in-house built CMS platform.
- Ease of use.
- Developer friendly.
- Well supported.
- Plugins for everything!
- Security.
- More variety of database support.
December 02, 2019
WordPress for Website Growth
We are using Wordpress as a means of recruitment. With our organization and just the nature of the industry cluster we are in, there is an extremely high turnover rate. Therefore we utilize just about any product we can to help with recruitment and retention. Through Wordpress, we can create an appealing website to attract candidates to work for our company. We are also able to track the traffic our website receives and therefore adjust things to make the website itself more worth our while.
- Organization - we are able to keep our website easily organized as well as all the analytical features organized through the WordPress interface.
- As mentioned above, the WordPress interface is extremely organized - this makes it extremely user friendly.
- WordPress is definitely ahead of its time, staying up to date with the newest technology and always updating to accommodate to technological advancement.
- A better way to integrate third party plugins - a lot of times our plugins glitch and I end up having to dig around to see why things have adjusted in ways I don't want.
- Better tutorials so that I don't have to walk new employees through the program step by step, but instead can assign a tutorial for their education of the program.
November 20, 2019
WordPress for Medical Blog
Health and Willness uses WordPress a great deal of the time. This is how we have created our entire website and continue to utilize it to post our weekly (sometimes biweekly) blog posts showcasing a great plethora of medical information for new nurses. The entire organization does use the program, though, we use it in different facets. My supervisor does more of the behind-the-scenes coding and formatting to get the perfect look for the website, where I am more of the day-to-day, posting new posts and checking our analytics. It has been a great way to grow our email list and ultimately create the client base we were looking for.
- Organization and user friendly - The entire site is user friendly making it very easy to navigate.
- Once or twice there has been a glitch in our programming and the contact for support was GREAT at helping us figure out the problem.
- Another thing we have enjoyed while using WordPress is that it is so easily compatible with our other services we utilize.
- At times I feel there is a bit much on one screen, small font and tons of information. It can be a bit overwhelming. Perhaps more menu options would cut down on this.
- Although we did receive help with our glitch, it did take awhile to respond, leaving us unable to post for almost a week.
- Perhaps a better tutorial would be helpful to learn the software. We utilized YouTube tutorials done by independent people.
November 19, 2019
Best website development platform out there,
We use WordPress to rapidly build websites and stores for our client, with very minimal requirement to deployment time.
- Free
- Easy to use and tons of plugins
- Well implemented content management
- PHP based, so it's faster
- Can create a mock website in minutes
- Rich templates available for integration
- Plugins may have bugs
- Easy to spam
- Constant target for hack bots
November 07, 2019
A superior blogging tool
WordPress is a helpful tool for our marketing and fundraising departments. We use WordPress to show how awesome it is to be a Girl Scout and encourage other girls to join. We write and create posts to show what our organization is doing, what community projects the Girl Scouts have been working on, and the benefits of joining a Girl Scout troop. We are able to create content that matches our brand but is separate from our website, which gives us the freedom to get creative. It helps solve the problem of outreach, as we see a decline in interest as girls get older.
- Integration is one thing that I love. I am able to integrate WordPress with my social media platforms, and also I am able to integrate widgets into WordPress to organize and better serve my audience.
- Themes and colors are another way WordPress excels. I use the paid version, but the free version also has great options and themes that cater to your needs.
- I am very pleased with my ability to customize and organize my page, I would consider customization to be a strength. Again, I am not a web developer, and I am not looking for anything extremely customizable or exchangeable, so for marketing and what I do, WordPress is perfect.
- Navigating WordPress for a new beginner can be a challenge, as it is not exactly outlined well. I think WordPress should offer free courses and tutorials for when someone is just getting started.
- WordPress uses different names for features that can be confusing and over-complicated, and I think that is something I would like to see done differently.
- If you are only looking for the free site, I think that it can be a bit more limited and less customizable. I would not consider WordPress to be the best on the market for free platforms.
October 17, 2019
WordPress Review
Wordpress is used to build smaller sites that we need to look good, and be able to create within a timely manner. Wordpress also allows us to create great looking content/websites for our clients, and it's easy to hand over the editing capabilities to them with little training on the CMS.
- Interface ease of use.
- Ability to train clients to use the CMS to edit their own content.
- Endless amounts of themes and plugins available to use for customization.
- Regulations of who can create themes/plugins. There seems to be many glitchy themes/plugins created.
- Although there's a huge online community/forums with support, it would be nice to have a chat feature and be able to talk with an actual rep.
- Security. I seem to hear a lot about being easy to hack.
August 10, 2019
Perfect, and where it isn't, it can be made so
Score 10 out of 10
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The WordPress platform (we use the stand-alone product) is the absolute perfect way to establish a public-facing presence in the world. We (and I as an individual) use it for our primary website, which is to provide information for our potential customers, but also for blogging smaller updates and celebrations/milestones we reach.
It is my go-to software for websites because it is just so versatile, flexible, reliable, and literally perfect. It always works.
It is my go-to software for websites because it is just so versatile, flexible, reliable, and literally perfect. It always works.
- Ease of use.
- Great flexibility of setup, integration of plugins, and expansion of functions.
- Reliability.
- Dynamic to changing requirements.
- Continued improvement on speed of loading, but that is also due to the website coding itself rather than the software.
May 28, 2019
WordPress - A great platform
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We use WordPress for our own website as well as several clients. Using the new BigCommerce App integration we have two clients that are now selling their products on separate websites increasing their web presence. This is a very cost effective way to expand on the web. The amount of Plug-ins for WordPress make customization very easy.
- Ease of Setup
- The extensive library of Plug-ins
- They have out-of-the-box themes for most site clients
- It is difficult to use multiple themes on one website
- The dashboard is a bit dated and unorganized
- Some themes are difficult to customize
May 21, 2019
Best Website Builder in the Universe!
Score 10 out of 10
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WordPress is hands down easy and intuitive to use. I have built many sites using WordPress and have always enjoyed the project. We use WordPress on 2 different websites and it solves all our website issues.
- Easy posting of articles.
- Very easy interface for uploading images.
- Blogging is made super simple with WordPress.
- The jump to v5 Gutenberg went smooth for me.
- I find that the classic editor meets my needs much better.
April 29, 2019
WordPress for the win (for content)
Score 8 out of 10
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The corporate website is hosted with WordPress and all users, content and digital marketing efforts rely on WordPress as a framework to support the organization.
- User experience is fantastic - anyone can pick it up in minutes and it’s a pleasure to use.
- The amount of plugins and add-ons available are invaluable.
- Content separated from functionally puts the power of the web in the hands of people that understand users and their behaviors.
- Speed is always a concern. A perfect implementation of Wordpress is fast, but add-ons and plugins can bog down the page load speed. Making that a priority for future releases would help.
- Allowing for a simplified UI for people that may be scared to edit a website for the first time (a first-timer option maybe?)
- Focus on mobile - the current mobile experience for editing content is only ok. Medium does it really well - but they are only focused on content - so maybe an option for content-creation views that are simplified on mobile.
April 22, 2019
WordPress Can Save You Thousands Of Dollars On Web Development Costs And Put You In The Driver's Seat Of Your Online Vehicle!
Score 10 out of 10
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I have used WordPress for years to build websites for business clients, and also ran government and local council-sponsored training seminars and workshops teaching businesses how to grow their presence online using WordPress.
After building hundreds of WordPress sites over the years and authoring a series of detailed WordPress training guides for beginners. I have recently turned all of my WordPress knowledge and expertise into a comprehensive Free WordPress training site at WPCompendium.org and developed WPTrainMe - a WordPress tutorials plugin that allows users to get instant access to hundreds of detailed WordPress step-by-step tutorials from their own WordPress dashboards.
After building hundreds of WordPress sites over the years and authoring a series of detailed WordPress training guides for beginners. I have recently turned all of my WordPress knowledge and expertise into a comprehensive Free WordPress training site at WPCompendium.org and developed WPTrainMe - a WordPress tutorials plugin that allows users to get instant access to hundreds of detailed WordPress step-by-step tutorials from their own WordPress dashboards.
- WordPress allows users with no technical knowledge or coding skills to be in complete control of their web presence.
- WordPress can save business owners thousands of dollars in web development and web design costs.
- WordPress is a powerful, secure and highly scalable online content publishing platform and business marketing tool that costs almost nothing to run.
- WordPress can be configured to automate many areas of website management and online marketing, including automatic updates and automatically driving visitors from search engines and social networks to your site whenever new content is published.
- WordPress is open source software and benefits from the contribution of thousands of community users, including web developers and web designers.
- WordPress is regularly updated (on average every 3 months) to provide users with new features, bug fixes, and to address security vulnerabilities found in previous versions.
- WordPress is the most popular and fastest growing content management system in the world
- I have written a detailed article listing 50 reasons why WordPress is the ideal choice for most website owners here: http://wptrainme.com/wordpress/50-great-reasons-why-you-should-choose-wordpress
- The biggest challenge I have found with WordPress is training - helping clients and business owners understand just how much they can achieve with WordPress. Even though there is so much great information online about WordPress, most of it is not organized into a logical system, or aimed at technical users. This is why I have years developing a comprehensive WordPress 'A-Z' training system that takes users step-by-step through every aspect of using WordPress.
January 26, 2019
Quick, intuitive solution for hosting a blog/site
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.
- 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.
- 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.