WordPress

WordPress is used by our web developer, our copyrighter and product developer. WordPress is addressing our website needs including our legal educational pages, our blog posts, our landing pages, our digital product eCommerce pages, our drop shipping eCommerce pages and our general inquiry and contact pages. WordPress is the backbone of our website with specialized plugins fulfilling specific functionality.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our nonprofit mental health center has a WordPress site. I use our site and update it for Public Information purposes and employees from across the organization also access the site for a variety of purposes (HR, IT, etc.). Our use is fairly basic; About Us, Contact Info, Job Openings, information about services, and a few interactive forms. It covers all the basics you would expect from a typical company website.

We currently use WordPress for our website content management. It is used only in our communications department. For our needs, it provides us a way to connect with our audience, share information that could be pertinent to them, and offer resources and solutions for clients. It's an easy-to-use tool that is universal, meaning new folks who join our team can quickly get up-to-speed and make edits to content on the site as needed. It also means that not just one person is responsible for making such edits, which allows flexibility and sharing of responsibilities.

I've used WordPress to create several blogs for different businesses I've been involved with as the internet marketing coordinator. I've also used it to write blogs about the music I'm passionate about, and to help independent musicians get more attention from a wider array of fans. WordPress lets me create a beautiful website quickly and easily.

Our organization uses WordPress for our online bulk food store. It has addressed the issue of being able to reach audiences that are not local to our store, so we can reach a broader group of customers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not used for business, mainly personal use. Chose for the following reasons: Free/open source, easy to use, and lots of resources for support.

I use WordPress in my school district to house everything regarding professional development and educational technology. Teachers access our WordPress site, designed more like an elaborate blog, to access: weekly tech tips, a booking calendar to schedule me for trainings or to work with their class, to see highlights of other teachers and what they are doing, to see what apps/programs we subscribe to or pay for in district, and to access lesson plans and ideas that we share. I update this site weekly and push out updates/tips via Gmail that invite my staff and teachers to check the site. This has been a nice way for our teachers to stay informed, learn some tech tips, and share what everyone is doing.

I use WordPress.org to run my website, both through a theme installed on WordPress and by integrating with my use of ClickFunnels using the ClickFunnels plugin for WordPress. The ability to fully customize my online presence is important to me and how I present my brand online. Being a virtual business selling digital products, it's essential to have software I can trust.

Wordpress is our primary platform for our online courses (including hundreds of videos, community interactions between teachers and students, a paid membership system, and more), our main site (consisting of blog, live event scheduling, and more), our shop (selling a sizable selection of physical goods), and a handful of other offerings.

I use WordPress to build and run websites for clients across a wide spectrum of business types and website needs. Utilizing plugins and custom code i create solutions for ecommerce, brochure, information, lead generation and product specification websites for small businesses, entrepreneurs and advertising / marketing agencies. It is rare that I find an application needed by a small business that cannot be met by WordPress.

I use WordPress to run all my websites and also recommend it to other users. It makes it easy to update the site and look after search engine optimization issues. It is immensely configurable by choosing and editing themes to change the design and by installing plugins to look after different types of functionality.

WordPress is currently being used by 100% of my clients that I have had the pleasure of doing business with recreating their business websites. WordPress addresses many different business problems, but the problems that it addresses the most are ease of use for an average user to update content on their website without the help of a webmaster, or hiring of a programmer or developer each time something needs to be changed on their website. Many business owners want the ability to update their own content without worrying about delegating the service to someone else, especially if content is ever changing or expanding, hiring a separate person for that can be cost effective and some businesses are going through tough times and need to be able to rely on themselves more these days to do some of the web work.

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.

While Hannon Hill's Cascade Server is at the heart of Philadelphia University's web content management strategy, a single product cannot always satisfy the disparate (and often transplanted) limbs of an institution where some faculty and staff desire more freedom when it comes to the design, administration and expression of what is traditionally understood as a blog.

Predating our use of Cascade Server by two years, our installation of WordPress on a dedicated server was a stopgap measure instituted first (and still) for our online daily news outlet: PhilaU Today. WordPress was free, open source and easy to install and get up and running. Its community of devoted developers writing plugins for practically everything also made WordPress more appealing than its competition at the time. Once the word spread (a partial pun?), academic programs and services (e.g., Industrial Design or Study Abroad on any given year) began to request installations that would allow them to showcase their particular student work and news — elements not always covered in PhilaU Today or on the recruitment-focused websites for each major. By the time we adopted Cascade, these blogs were legacy, and with our focus on using Cascade to push out the unified design of the juggernaut of our primary domain that encompasses over 50 academic programs, 3 distinct colleges and numerous administrative departments, we made the conscious decision to let the WordPress blogs be while we developed and designed the — by nature of our brand — Philadelphia University website proper.

After establishing the wireframes, information architecture and all of the supporting design and scripting elements that would become our primary, recruitment-focused domain, it became clear to a small department of IT staff and an even smaller department of Marketing and Public Relations (which includes web communications) that WordPress blogs — providing that they were initially setup by Marketing and IT with a top level admin from each that could not be removed from users — would continue. Seven years on, and these blogs have not only continued, but thrived to now include over 70 blogs.

Many provisos are in place for those who blog using WordPress: 1) the initial setup, approval of blog design (which was encouraged to be unique and fitting for the program it served), and right to override or edit content must remain centralized with marketing staff; 2) blogs could not violate the University brand (outlined in our Style Guide); 3) blogs must be maintained with current content as any blog untended for weeks at a time is the kiss of death; and 4) use of WordPress must be restricted to blogs. Regarding the latter, it is great that WordPress sites have now advanced to the point where they can be setup to act as standalone sites (i.e., not traditional blogs). But our policy was clear: official departmental sites were to built within Cascade Server. To do otherwise would risk not only redundancy of information, but also misrepresentation of the institution by well meaning people who do not nor could ever represent the institution as a whole.

These blogs could have been brought into Cascade Server. We considered that option. But legacy site management being what it is, we chose to retain the separate WordPress server and maintain it as our place where members of the University community could contribute to our brand story without diluting the precision work that goes into the design and maintenance of the primary domain.

WordPress is a core part of our business, and it's even in our name! FlowPress comes from "For the Love of WordPress". We develop enterprise-level WordPress sites for our clients, and we use WordPress as an application framework for our own products. WordPress addresses the core problem of facilitating the effortless writing, publishing, and management of content in various forms.

I personally made the move to WordPress seven years ago, after working with other early platforms like Greymatter, Movable Type, and TextPattern.

For the last four organizations I've supported, as well as in my own endeavors, WordPress has been leveraged as both a blogging platform and as a simple CMS (Content Management System) to enable business users to manage online content with minimal software cost (and installation headaches) and a relatively easy learning curve. My clients have used it to build microsites for their customers, and several have used it as a way to manage content through the efforts of many authors with diverse responsibilities and levels of technical expertise by taking advantage of the security benefits of segmenting access across many levels of user accounts. When a small business, school, or not-for-profit organization needs to manage web content that is dynamic and fluid, they need a CMS that will allow them to keep publically-visible information up-to-date without needing to get the attention of a technician or web designer every time. WordPress allows the designer to configure the environment; but leave content creation, management, and expiration to the owners of the information.