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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.
WordPress - Industry Leader in Custom, Affordable Websites
Handy CMS Platform with stable functionality, supportable by both Marketing and IT
WordPress is the best CMS available.
Best tool to build intuitive website quickly
Nothing like WordPress - Best Ever
WordPress For The Win!
Best Website CRM Tool
In my experience, WordPress will, without warning, change your business plan to the free plan, ruining your website!
Best Sitebuilder Out There Period
If you have a blog you can't go wrong with WordPress.
WordPress 7 Years Plus User Experiance
Swiss Army Knife of Website CMS
We Use WordPress and so Should You
Love using WordPress for our corporate blog
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Popular Features
- Admin section (131)8.686%
- Mobile optimization / responsive design (129)8.585%
- Library of website themes (130)8.484%
- Page templates (128)8.282%
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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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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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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.
- 8.2Role-based user permissions(127) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 6.3API(94) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 6.5Internationalization / multi-language(79) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 8.3WYSIWYG editor(120) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 7.3Code quality / cleanliness(121) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 8.6Admin section(131) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 8.2Page templates(128) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 8.4Library of website themes(130) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 8.5Mobile optimization / responsive design(129) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 8.5Publishing workflow(125) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 6.3Form generator(104) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 6.8Content taxonomy(113) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 8.2SEO support(118) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 7.5Bulk management(100) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 8.5Availability / breadth of extensions(121) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 8.5Community / comment management(120) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
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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 Integrations
- PrestaShop
- Provide Support Live Chat
- ActiveDEMAND
- Lead Liaison
- Planyo Online Booking System
- Super Monitoring
- Ontraport
- GreenRope
- Mautic (open source)
- Emma by Marigold
- Form Builder
- TrenDemon
- Brevo
- LiveChat
- Acquia DAM (Widen)
- SnapEngage
- Chatra
- Wrike
- Freshdesk
- MailerLite
- Wistia
- AWeber
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio, on marketing cloud
- Matomo Analytics
WordPress Competitors
- LiveJournal
- Populr
- Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
WordPress Technical Details
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- Integrations
- Easy to Use Interface for Website Updates (WYSIWYG Editor)
- Blog Integration and Management
- The Backend Dashboard has become pretty bloated over time. Can be tough to navigate for non-experts.
- Plugin management - It's a struggle to constantly stay on top of your plugins, make sure they are compatible and updated, etc. A better way to manage them all would be very useful.
- More lightweight WYSIWYG editors - If you use an out of the box, or even customized standard template, the page weight can quickly grow and become cumbersome for speed, negatively impacting SEO scores.
WordPress For The Win!
- Flexibility - allows contributors to easily customize the content they are creating.
- Functionality - the ability to load various plugins within the environment bring about much-appreciated functionality (i.e adding contact forms, e-commerce front-ends, photo/video galleries, etc.).
- Security - WordPress as a platform runs more than 1/3 of the world's internet sites - with that in mind the community is laser-focused on maintaining high-security standards and ensuring that the platform is properly patched against security vulnerabilities.
- Better controls around the inclusion of 3rd party written plugins within the Plugin Directory - search functionality and classification hasn't changed much in the past few years.
WordPress 7 Years Plus User Experiance
- SEO as its have all the systematic tools to do all the work rather than in PHP or any other website management.
- Designing- is amazing you have used in house builder or woo-commerce, the elementary page builder for your needs, and some of them with basic features are free.
- Fast Speed for loading index page and management for cached pages.
- Migration- in WordPress is easy to just take backup and migrate with the tools of yourself.
- Creating free plugins for starter business of individual blogs.
- Getting domain names from WordPress is comparatively high than other domain sellers.
- Automatic backup should be added in the WordPress itself, right now its not available you have to use 3rd party plugins of can do manually.
We Use WordPress and so Should You
- Ease of use
- Versality - lots of additional features through plug-ins
- Accessible - the popularity of the product means you can get plenty of help
- It can be glitchy and buggy at times
- Need to go to 3rd parties for instructions on how to do more complex things
- It does not always integrate as seamlessly as it could with plug-ins like Yoast SEO
WordPress, gotta have it
- Has a lot of plugin options
- A lot of theme varieties
- Adaptability and versatility
- 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.
- 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
Some features that make the tool stand out:
- Separation of content and layout - incredibly easy to change the look and feel of your site without losing valuable information
- Strong user base and support community - one cannot go wrong with approximately 5,000,000 installs
- Robust third-party plug-in support - 50,000 plug-ins virtually guarantee you can find exactly what you are looking for
- Simple. Simple. Simple. From one-click installs to one-click maintenance updates, the management of WordPress is a delight.
- Complex enhancements are not overly complex. Including the wealth of knowledge from developers, it is generally trivial to integrate with other systems.
- User versatility - the ability to assign user roles allows non-technical people to work and maintain your site's content. You can share the workload safely.
- Security. I have had several instances in working with WordPress over the years where security has been compromised. In all situations, it was related to unpatched installs but brings light to the fact that the system cannot be left alone. Regular maintenance is a must.
- Sketchy third-party plug-ins. With 50,000+ plug-ins available, this isn't the Apple-curated App Store and some of the plug-ins can be questionable in both their quality and data collection habits. You should always be careful of where you download your plug-ins from. And ALWAYS keep them up-to-date (see point #1).
- The amount of change can be somewhat of a workload to keep up with. Although it is not difficult and often 'one-click' in nature, it is not a set-it-and-forget-it type of platform.
Perhaps WordPress would be less appropriate at the high-end, enterprise-class type websites of a .com company. High customizations might not be the best fit.
- Extremely long support allows [the] business owner to focus on their business and less on patching security exploits, updating code to run on more modern versions of PHP, NGINX, Apache2, etc
- Developer-supported plugin library makes it extremely easy to add new features in a very cost-effective way
- Built-in blogging functions allows websites to stay continuously fresh by adding new content and improves SEO
- Easy to get started - most clients are perfectly fine using built-in features to add new content on their own with minimal programming knowledge
- Automatic updates can help make sites more secure
- Themes make it easy to get a jump start on design
- Ability to self host allows more control over functionality
- Plugins are a double-edge sword and need to be vetted carefully. Due to its market share, WordPress tends to be a big target for security exploits and a vulnerable plugin can bring down an entire website
- Older plugins (or certain combinations) tend to break the site and make fixing issue far more complicated
- Resource intensive compared to other CMS like Drupal. Bigger WordPress sites will run poorly on cheaper shared hosting solutions (e.g. Godaddy) without proper optimization
For more complex sites, some benefits of WordPress start turning into limitations and add development hours. For example, themes and plugins tend to load in assets that are not all needed for a particular client's usage and this can hurt performance (e.g. Google PageSpeed) and in turn SEO. However, there are third-party caching providers that can offset some of this.
- The rock solid architecture and code base is great alone, but the open source nature of WordPress that has fostered a massive global community of 3rd party developers who create plugins, add-ons and enhancements, both functional and design related, is amazing.
- WordPress is extremely easy to install and, because it's become the de facto CMS for most websites, many hosting companies make installing it even easier with 'push button' tools inside the hosting account that allow you to install it without any technical experience or need to access the actual directory via FTP etc.
- When working with client websites, another feature I really appreciate is WordPress' ease of migration. I build a client website on my own server, and then move it to the client's hosting account when it's complete and ready to go live. I use a simple plugin that allows me to do this in just a few clicks from the front-end WordPress dashboard, without the need to access the database or hosting backend.
- While the amazing WordPress developer community has created hundreds of useful plugins for adding functionality like duplication pages and posts, changing the display order of pages and posts in the dashboard and migrating a site, it would be nice if WordPress would create those features (and others) built into the platform. It can be cumbersome to install so many plugins (and shouldn't be necessary for WordPress-specific functions related to administrating the WordPress platform itself.
- Another major shortcoming that's frustrated me for years is the extremely limited functionality of the Media Library. For a site that has lots of media (images, videos, etc.) it's incredibly difficult to organize and manage. There really needs to be a folder system to separate, group and search for media items. I've tried countless 3rd party plugins that try to overcome this, but have yet to find one that is effective as well as drag and drop easy.
- Simple to use with only a basic understanding of web development needed for many tasks.
- The availability of plugins means that anything we need to do, there is a plugin for it. For basic things, the plugins are free. For more advanced things, there is a cost but it is affordable in most cases.
- Adaptability with third-party resources means that our sites will not conflict negatively with different browsers, devices, and other alternative platforms.
- There are an unlimited number of designs and elements and more are being created every day.
- Obviously, security and hacking is always an issue. If it was easier to update templates that would be helpful.
- Plugin conflicts are not as much of an issue these days but still can cause problems from time to time.
- Customizable - you can alter the code.
- Established - it has been around for a while.
- User friendly - it can be set up so anyone can make changes.
- Increase security.
- Make more user-friendly for non-coders.
- Add more options for customization for non-coders.
- Anyone can make a website without coding.
- WordPress websites are SEO friendly.
- There are many 3rd party sources for WordPress tips & tricks
- Sometimes you still have to add code because the basic text formatting can get messed up.
- Toggling back and forth between "coder" view and the WYSIWYG messes things up, and yet sometimes it's necessary.
- It would be great to be able to see what your site would look like to viewers as you're creating it.
- 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].
WordPress Review!
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
- individual business owner websites
- Small business websites
- Membership sites
- Blogging
- Selling a product or showcasing a portfolio of work
1. Application development
2. Significant integration with 3rd party systems
3. Learning Management Systems - although some plugins exist
Building websites quickly and easily with WordPress
- 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.
WordPress for Website Growth
- 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.
WordPress Can Save You Thousands Of Dollars On Web Development Costs And Put You In The Driver's Seat Of Your Online Vehicle!
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.
WordPress would suit most business uses and applications. I would only recommend custom web development work if a business owner cannot get the functionality they need or the web design look they want from a WordPress plugin or theme.
Quick, intuitive solution for hosting a blog/site
- 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.
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- Extremely flexible; can suit most website needs from blogs to small business.
- Design, content, and functionality separated from each other. This allows for data portability (you can add content regardless of the design you are using, modify the design without changing your content, and add new features without affecting the other areas).
- Countless themes to choose from/ability to create from scratch.
- Still responsible for securing the site.
- Does not come with a built-in drag and drop website builder.
- Some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is not required but makes things a lot easier; users without it may have a longer learning curve.
- Make a professional business website without spending a lot of money.
- You can easily follow simple tutorials to learn the basics.
- You want to make a blog, portfolio, or a personal website and use it to make money online.
- You just want to run a blog and have no plans to make money or use any third-party services.
- You are fine with limited features as far as you never have to write code, make backups, or worry about updates.
- You just want a small website, and you are not worried about growing your business online or using the website to make more sales.
- WordPress allows us to create websites quicker because it provides a number of built in systems so we don't have to develop from ground up.
- WordPress makes it easier for non-coders to manager their websites through the content management system admin interface.
- There is a massive WordPress community that you can use as support and third party plugins that you can select from to extend the functionality of your site outside of the standard Wordpress themes.
- Sometimes there are too many plugins to choose from for a specific need. It requires you to try and test multiple ones to find the right fit for your site.
- WordPress can run slow if you use too many plugins and don't do any speed optimizations within your configurations.
- Plugins and WordPress make a numerous updates throughout the year. In order to keep up with the latest updates and security patches, you must keep up and update as new releases come out.
WordPress FTW! ...most of the time.
- WordPress can handle a broad array of content-centric sites from static sites, to a blog, to a mixed media site, to a content heavy site like TechCrunch.
- Most mainstream site scenarios can be built using WordPress, up to the point where a high I/O or real-time webapp needed instead.
- High I/O or real-time webapps.
- High concurrent user sites. The server environment would need to be tuned to handle this, but the same can be said for most development platforms out there.
- Wordpress as a framework or other MVC-style sites, the tools are still in their infancy.
- WordPress' core is slowly being refactored from procedural to OOO-based code.
What types of content will be served?
For how many users?
Will they need different access levels?
How many monthly visitors are expected?
How many concurrent users?
Will you need e-commerce baked in?
For how many SKUs?
Do you consider mobile users important to your online strategy?
Will the site need to be responsive?
How important is SEO to you?
Do you plan to advertise the site with PPC or on social media?
How will the site need to fit into your social media strategy?
Stress Less with WordPress
The second problem it addresses is the ability to insert a wide variety of different functionality into the site at any given time with the use of easy to install plugins. The variety of various types of plugins can address a lot of coding from scratch during the website building phase, which cuts costs for the business owners by only having to pay a fraction of the cost for the plugin than it would cost if a programmer was hired to do it from scratch for them. Plugins can be activated, and deactivated for use on the site without any coding knowledge necessary for most of them. I must state though that it does require grasping the systems user mechanics to a fair degree. Some plugins do require some knowledge of PHP, HTML5, CSS3 but most of it has been taken care of with the implementing of shortcodes that require only the knowledge of what the shortcode is used for and the ability to insert the shortcode in the proper areas of the website. Instead of writing out code, users can use something similar to: [large_image]http://example.com/largeimage.jpg[/large_image] instead, which is very user friendly to understand and implement.
Another problem WordPress addresses is cost. Since WordPress is a free to use platform with open source coding to the frame, anyone who uses WordPress can install it onto their website's host server for free, and they can also choose from a vast amount of free WordPress themes that give the user a head start on their project when the choose the right template for their site. In the WordPress depository, there are a wide variety of free plugins to use as well that cover almost anything you will need to get your site up and running efficiently. As for some of the better plugins out there, you can purchase a paid version of some of the plugins you find in the depository, or you can find them on other specific websites that sole purpose is to provide premium plugins, and themes to help with building your business' website.
- WordPress is a free to use, continuously updated with new features, quality product maintained, framework that can be easily installed on almost any server in the matter of minutes. This feature alone gives you the type of service that most paid systems would give you, but instead, it's absolutely free.
- WordPress and third party companies offer many WordPress themes that are perfect for almost every type of website that you can think of making as a business or for personal use. The cost of these themes varies from Free - to upwards of $150 as the highest priced theme that I have personally seen on the market. You can also hire a developer to create your own custom theme with the needed requirements you would like as well, and that can range anywhere from $800 - $5,000 or more depending on the developer and the requirements of your site.
- WordPress and third parties also offer many WordPress plugins that provide the business/user's website with specific functionality that the Wordpress framework and possibly their currently installed WordPress theme may not offer. Plugins can range from Free - $200 or more from my own personal experience looking across the internet on all the different websites that offer their plugin products. You can also hire a developer to create a custom WordPress plugin that meets your specific requirements as well. This can cost anywhere from $100 - $1,500 or more depending on the specific needs of the plugin you are looking to have created.
- Wordpress offers ease of use for updating content for people who may not be so website savvy when it comes to the structure, lingo, or code layout. There are many options to customize your website with content using a visual composer plugin, or built in feature of a theme, or the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) that's built into the WordPress framework already.
- WordPress has been improving their framework since the beginning of development. If I would say that WordPress has room for improvement, it would be giving itself the ability to host plugins on a remote location to call functions from so that the use of many plugins won't disrupt the site's load speed times, which effects the overall experience of the site's users.
- I think that WordPress can expand on some of their customization features to allow a simpler, faster way of getting your brand in the framework. Though this is capable through plugins that are out there, I think WordPress could alleviate the use of a lot of plugins if they incorporate some of the major used plugins features within the framework itself.
- I think that WordPress can improve on the ease of use in connecting their members management functionality with outside source software that companies may be offering as a SaaS to their customers, and using WordPress as their main site that stores the sales information and sign-up features.
WordPress is just about right for us
- Drag and drop functionality for adding new widgets is very productive. Downloading or adding new widgets is easy. Enabling, disabling them is also fast and easy.
- Newer theme instances do this much better and more simply than older ones. We just updated our theme and this makes changes in widgets and menus much faster, easier.
- Edits to content are fast, immediate. The preview function is especially helpful for page layout changes. Absence of coding requirements makes adding new pages/posts very fast, simple. We are changing site content every week. This is especially helpful for edits to widgets that can be previewed before launching.
- Library/media functionality makes uploads new images, art, doc files much faster and easier than other solutions. The viewer enables you to clearly see what you are uploading before you do. Pretty self explanatory. Limitations in file size that existed in older themes have been resolved, but you must upgrade to newer versions of your theme(s) to take advantage of this, otherwise you have to manually code the file size limitation in your WP theme.
- Creating new pages is exceptionally easy, fast and does not requires coding skills. This means we can stand up landing pages, download pages and others on almost a moment's notice for new product launches, marketing campaigns and other uses. Very useful for creating new landing pages for programs, launches and other marketing and sales tasks. We can password protect these pages, or requires registration (through the built in Pardot widget).
- A WYSIWYG type page/post editor would be highly desirable but possibly outside the limits of WP. Ability to save page/posts as templates (not in the WP sense but as in the MAP sense) would be better. Newer instances of WP themes have largely resolved this, however, if you really want/need to see what's going you must use the text editor. Simple HTML skills are required
- Could be limitations of our unique apps/widgets but understanding how the various apps interact is difficult at time. This is a limitation of our site design and the theme that was chosen and ultimately adapted for our site.
- Prefer a better list management function than what is presently available for things like partner listings, channel, office locations etc. Again, this was/is a custom adaptation of WP for our site. Not recommended for everyone. A native WP app should be used for things like partner lists, office locations and the like.
Casual, but long-time user
- Manage posts
- Too many updates. I had to reinstall new systems on my personal site. This wasn't easy because I'm not an expert at compiling code and running software on the third-party hosting site I work with.