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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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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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Personal

$4

Cloud
per month 6 GB storage

Premium

$8

Cloud
per month 13 GB storage

Business

$25

Cloud
per month 50 GB storage

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3 per month 6 GB storage
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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 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

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

7.9
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8.1
Avg 7.7

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8.2
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.

WordPress Competitors

WordPress Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

WordPress starts at $3.

LiveJournal and Populr are common alternatives for WordPress.

Reviewers rate Availability / breadth of extensions highest, with a score of 9.2.

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

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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After a dozen years, WordPress is still my go-to CMS, design and development platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 13, 2021
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
12 years of experience
As a digital marketing firm, one of whose core services is web design, we use WordPress exclusively for our client websites, as well as for our own. At this point, WordPress powers around 40% of websites on the entire Internet and has come to be the 'gold standard' for content management systems when it comes to search engine friendliness and design/development flexibility.
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
I believe WordPress has the features, flexibility and user-friendliness to be the best choice for building virtually any website. The only exceptions might be for an extremely specialized web application that needs to be built from the ground up, or an ecommerce website. While you can certainly build and operate an ecommerce website with WordPress (using 3rd party plugins, like WooCommerce), competitors such as Shopify and BigCommerce are extremely specialized in focusing exclusively on ecommerce, are easier to use and have 'out of the box' features built in that are specifically for running an ecommerce website.

WordPress 7 Years Plus User Experiance

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 07, 2022
VD
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
7 years of experience
I have been using WordPress since 2013. I started with the basic blog website and till now I have delivered many Websites based on WordPress for e-commerce and other fields. It's very easy to set up and the plugin library is amazing, everything can be done in a few steps if anyone has the working knowledge. The only drawback is frequent updates and management of the plugins.
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
A person with basic knowledge can install WordPress easily from the channel but to the actual results, you need the expert. The creating and setup with 3rd party APIs is the time taken and some time WordPress stuck. But overall you have the best tool in the market for website management.

Love Wordpress

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 07, 2025
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
40 years of experience
It is a dependable platform for our websites. It gives us access to many third-party add-ons that greatly empower our websites. Other options are limiting in this, often giving us few, sometimes only one option app.
WordPress is constantly being updated. It is easy for even a layman to do the update. The WordPress websites are always solid and dependable.

The templates and base website options are huge compared to any other option. They are always familiar territory because the backend is a standard build with just enough edge adaption options to personalize each website.
  • For updates to the Wordpress core and thirdparty apps they have an easy to spot awareness of updates needed and a solid update process that does not require a outside service to look after.
  • Creating blogs is easy, adding photos is just drop and go.
  • Load times are quick
Cons
  • more sites templates specifically for boudoir and nude portraits
  • Third party templates sometimes are more difficult to alter or update
WordPress is great for simple or exotic websites. You can choose to be fairly static and short or active and long. You can also develop more pages than you need.

On the downside, because of the nearly unlimited options to create, It demands a very focused approach where you are clear what your design should look like before you start.

Great free Website CMS or ECommerce site for the technically inclined

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 07, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
10 years of experience
We use WordPress to build websites and eCommerce sites of companies that want to be found organically. We work both with SaaS companies and eCommerce companies that sell nationally.
  • SEO
  • Customizations
  • Flexibility
  • eCommerce Solutions
Cons
  • 3rd party companies advertising within the platform
  • Assuring plugins are well done
  • Page speed out of box
If people are semi technical or already using WordPress, or want something free that doesn't lock them in, I recommend it. However with the legal issues with being Open Source and suing WordPress Engine, I no longer strongly recommend WordPress or have my clients switch over.

We Use WordPress and so Should You

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 16, 2021
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
2 years of experience
We are a boutique real estate firm that seeks to expand our digital presence and use the internet to drive leads, conversions and new clients to our website. We built our website using WordPress and could not function without it. The sheer versatility and number of great plug-ins make [WorkPress] an all-in-one [product] that we are continuing to learn about and master.
  • Ease of use
  • Versality - lots of additional features through plug-ins
  • Accessible - the popularity of the product means you can get plenty of help
Cons
  • 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
If you're building a website from scratch, WordPress is the way to go. It's relatively straightforward, easy to use, and looks professional. Take your time planning and researching to ensure that you use only the plug-ins and extras you need. This is because using too many plug-ins can slow [down] the site, so for a more advanced website with lots of different features and complex codes you might look elsewhere.
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