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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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WordPress is Ok

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 10, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use WordPress as the base for my page builder so that I can get the custom results I am hoping for at that time. I dont have a problem with the templates other than not bein...
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Michael Berchak
Professional - Other
Owner / Creative
BerchakDesign
WordPress3 years of experience

Still one of the most versatile website platforms on the market.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 17, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Wordpress is our go-to platform for building websites, whether internal intranets, CRM-esque systems, or just full-on B2B or B2C sites. It's our agency-level expertise, and we...
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Maria Clara Daly
Director - Marketing
Director of Interactive Strategy
Stratacomm
WordPress14 years of experience

WordPress, yes but no

Rating: 5 out of 10
March 7, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We used it to create our webiste. It was hard, really complicated to use, to include plugins, if you add one, the other one breaks, really hard to maintain, to organize and ma...
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Daniel Cetina
General Manager - Marketing
Founder
Immunity Digital Marketing
WordPress5 years of experience

WordPress is Pound-For-Pound Still The Best

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 5, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use WordPress in a variety of ways, including blogging, standard page content, E-Commerce, and organic SEO integrations. Honestly, there's a reason WordPress is the most us...
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Jeff Montgomery
C-Level Executive - Manufacturing
CTO
Animal Necessity
WordPress15 years of experience

A Go-To Website Tool for Medium-Sized Companies

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 5, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It's used for our main e-commerce website and our order purchasing system is integrated to it through a WordPress plugin. Additionally, it integrates with our email marketing ...
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Daniel Berry
Professional - Marketing
Marketing Manager
Medical Coding Academy
WordPress12 years of experience
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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 Integrations

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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Easy to setup, easy to use, fun all around

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 24, 2013
VG
Vince Ginsburg
Director of Online Strategies and Development
Corsair Media Services (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
3 years of experience
Pros
  • Quick and easy way to set up a website, especially one oriented around a blog.
  • Easy to set up an eCommerce store.
  • Low learning curve.
Cons
  • Does not always provide the advanced access and customization needed for bigger business needs.
  • Can be overly-simplified for advanced programming users.
Likelihood to Recommend
A simple but still versatile and robust content management system that gets websites up and running in minutes. Maintenance is a breeze and the learning curve is fairly minimal.

WordPress is the solid choice for building your online presence

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 11, 2018
LG
Lauren Golden
The Original Free Mama
The Free Mama (Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • The ease of adding plugins to customize the site and integrate it with other platforms is excellent
  • Adding new pages and posts is incredibly simple, and with Yoast it's easy to prioritize SEO
  • Changing themes is also easy to do to keep things looking fresh
Cons
  • I've had issues finding technical support, whether it's wordpress related or dealing with a particular theme
  • It would be great to have a visual builder to toggle back and forth between in wordpress without adding a plugin
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe WordPress is the best option for websites. It is definitely not the most user-friendly, I believe there is a learning curve that less customizable sites like Wix and SquareSpace don't have, however I think it's worth it for the control you have over your online presence.

WordPress serves... everybody.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 01, 2014
DO
Dan Oblak
Technology Coordinator
AuthorHouse (Writing and Editing, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Easy learning curve. I believe the mark of good software design is that it is accessible to both the power user, and those who just want to get their process up and running. WordPress does not require that users become an expert, or step outside of commonly-familiar document editing concepts, in order to look good in their online presence.
  • Ubiquity. WordPress is available on most web hosts I have done business with -- many will even do the installation on their servers in such a way that the customer is completely insulated from the 'plumbing' side of it's configuration (the web host makes the machine work, the customer makes the machine DO the work). Because it is in use by so many organizations and individuals, it is easy to locate talent for content creation, and web site design -- your local high school likely has a hundred kids who have used it for their own blog, and can take that skill with them into the workplace.
  • The power of Open Source. With huge community of users, developers, and contributors, WordPress has grown not just by the narrow view of a few visionaries. I have seldom ever had to wonder (for more than five minutes) if there was a way to solve a content-presentation problem within the WordPress world... the plugins, templates, and modules provided (often for free) can take you from idea to delivery in a matter of hours, not weeks.
Cons
  • Though things have improved with capabilities added through third-party templates and plugins, I would like to see more integrated support for sites that serve audiences both 'on the big screen' as well as on handhelds.
Likelihood to Recommend
One of the downsides to my favorite benefits -- ubiquity -- is that while there are large numbers of happy users out there who utilized WordPress in their own projects, there are also a large number of hackers who have become familiar enough with the environment that it is a common target. I have had at least two web sites become politcal targets of 'activists' who saw the content as reason enough to seek and exploit weaknesses. While the frailties of the sites were based in the hosting, not in WordPress itself -- the content was not protected from compromise once the attackers got to the MySQL database that WordPress is based on. If you plan to host and serve financial data or other information that could cause legal issues -- you may need to look for a product with multiple levels of security that just aren't part of the WordPress structure.

WordPress for Your Corporate Website? Think Twice.

Rating: 4 out of 10
July 11, 2013
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
7 years of experience
Pros
  • WordPress is the defacto standard for building small websites of say 20-30 pages.
  • Easily integrate all or most of the functionality you need - using plugins.
  • Speed up performance with caching through a separate module.
  • Integrates with various content-delivery networks.
Cons
  • For larger sites - say over 20 pages - a WordPress install can and will quickly get out of control.
  • High learning curve for WordPress development. The WordPress system selects which template to render a page based on a complex decision tree that is internal to the product. To be an effective developer, you need to know PHP, MySQL, Javascript, and be willing to spend much time in the WordPress codex mastering the specifics of the product.
  • Integration with third-party products depends on plugins which may suddenly stop working. Each individual plugin comes with its own CSS style sheet and styling the plugins to look like a seamless part of your brand takes a very long time.
  • Caching is not built into the product but occurs through a third-party plugin. You have to toggle caching on and off to see what is really going on with your site.
  • Performance can be an issue - particularly if you are running a large site and/or simply need/want to deliver a lot of assets on smart phones and tablets. There is no content-delivery network built into WordPress and integrating with a third-party CDN takes technical skill.
  • WordPress does not come out of the box with a granular permission system suitable for business. This makes setting up groups of users with differential access to various parts of your corporate or enterprise website relatively difficult.
  • Security is always a concern with a WordPress site.
Likelihood to Recommend
Don't get me wrong, WordPress is a great solution for bloggers and other folks who need a very simple website. But if you are a company on a growth trajectory, plan on spending a lot of time customizing WordPress to turn it into a CMS and styling each plugin you rely upon. The amount of time spent here can and will be daunting.

WordPress is a worthy CMS and blogging platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 13, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Static web pages provide basic functionality that any CMS should.
  • Dynamic content such as blog entries extends this functionality.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
WordPress is an excellent platform for static and dynamic content. It has a variety of uses beyond this such as storefronts, file hosting, and more. Care must be taken to ensure the security of the platform, however. Fortunately, between a few excellent security-related plugins and the ability to deploy this in a container, much of the security concern can be mitigated.
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