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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.
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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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December 20, 2022
WordPress is the best CMS available.
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I was hired as a web developer with extensive experience to create a professional marketing and advertising platform (website) using WordPress. We required a platform similar to WordPress that would support several integrations, allow for flexibility, and yet offer frontend user-friendly usage. In order to improve the platform (website) we wanted to build, we also wanted an open source platform that allows backend coding customization. Finally, we needed a platform that would make it simple for us to fix the website SEO integration in accordance with our SEO requirements and for faster business growth.
One of the key reasons we chose to introduce WordPress was because of its ease of maintenance. We had fantastic success with WordPress because it was able to fix our problems and make our thoughts clear as we started the project.
One of the key reasons we chose to introduce WordPress was because of its ease of maintenance. We had fantastic success with WordPress because it was able to fix our problems and make our thoughts clear as we started the project.
- Allows coding customization eg. css
- Accept lots of plugins
- Beautiful interface and layouts
- SEO friendly
- WordPress and plugin updates conflicts needs to be well reconciled to prevent website errors
- Converting WordPress into an App should be the new focus for WordPress since Mobile App are mostly in use now
- WordPress payment gateway functionality should be more open to allow more payment gateways
January 05, 2022
Swiss Army Knife of Website CMS
I use WordPress to create a stunning and interactive website for my business and the clients who hire me to build them a website. I've used it in the past to build e-commerce websites, intranet sites for companies, blogs, and many other types of websites. WordPress is a simple solution to create stunning websites in minutes.
- Open Source.
- Easy to manage.
- Great templates and plugins.
- Easy install and maintenance.
- Dashboard interface needs update.
- User management.
- Updates sometimes break the site.
August 20, 2021
WordPress: One of the Best!
Our company uses WordPress within multiple teams and for multiple purposes. My team has utilized it as a platform to host our internal company website. We use it to give employees easy access to forms (like PTO requests, business card requests, travel requests, etc.), documents, and media (e.g. if we have an all-company meeting, we will post the recording on our WordPress website). We also use the platform within our tech team and they have built a proprietary solution that we provide to our clients.
- Ability to customize
- Thousands of Themes and Plugins to choose from
- Ease of use
- WordPress breaks often so you need to have someone who understands how to troubleshoot, which can take time and money.
- Some plugins are easier to customize than others, for example, some don't require any coding knowledge while others do. This can limit your project if you are not a coder.
- WordPress can be easily hacked, so you also need someone who can ensure your sites are secure.
I am a web designer that exclusively designs and develops websites using WordPress. It's a free/open source with a great big community so I know that I have both updates that I need for security as well as support. WordPress is very easy to use and the best thing about it is that it's really like a blank slate for whatever you want to do.
- Very flexible - can literally build any kind of website
- Very user friendly - with each update, the UI gets more and more user friendly so that even non developers will have a relatively easy time getting a website up and running in no time. For advanced users, there is no shortage of options on themes, plugins, etc.
- Constant updates - the software is being updated all the time and security patches are automatically applied while other updates can be applied at a time of your choosing
- Great community - you have only to Google any issue you might be having and are very likely to find some sort of answer or help right away and easily
- More security for certain types of websites (financial institutions)
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
- 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.
July 27, 2021
An open-source tool to build responsive web sites
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.
- It provides flexibility in building websites.
- It contains number of add-ons that help in building single-page web applications like the modern web framework these days.
- It allows users to choose from various available web templates to build a website from scratch.
- It can be used by even novice developers who just started building web sites.
- The huge number of available visual templates makes it difficult to chose the best one for the purpose of building a website.
I use WordPress for my corporate website. I needed a website to back up my brand, showcase the services I offer, and function as a showpiece website to show other businesses what I'm capable of for website development.
- Ease of use
- Availability of a diverse range of themes, plugins and related services
- Stable and powerful platform to build a variety of web projects
- Open source allows you to move it to new hosts as needed (unlike Wix, Squarespace, etc.)
- Web standard for websites
- Ability to disable Gutenberg built-in
- Enhanced security options within WordPress itself
We use WordPress to host our marketing websites for our companies and products. We do graphic design in house and outsource custom theming and development to freelancers. WordPress being so popular means that the availability of freelancers for just about anything you would want to do in WordPress is available at reasonable cost.
- 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
We use WordPress as our website platform for a range of different websites that we use in our business. We have our main business website with our marketing and information etc, then we also run an eCommerce site and 3 different membership portals for delivering online training. WordPress allows us to flexibly create these sites, to control membership logins, to charge for individual purchases or recurring memberships, and to allow various members of our team and admin staff to add and update pages inside our membership portals.
- WordPress is so popular that it has thousands of addons, creating huge flexibility to handle almost any need you can imagine
- WordPress can be set up to allow users at various levels to access or edit different pages or areas within the site. This is perfect for membership sites.
- WordPress has thousands of different visual themes and huge flexibility within the design system so that it can look and feel the way we want our brand to be represented.
- WordPress has a huge array of plugins and visual themes available, which makes it super powerful but also, unfortunately, means it is sometimes difficult to know the best or easiest way to accomplish a specific goal.
- When editing a site, the default built-in editor is clunky to use, so we always install one of the freely available "visual editor" plugins that helps with page layout and editing.
- The "plain" wordpress that is first installed is quite basic and it needs plugins and themes to make it work better. These are readily available but if you've never used them before it can be difficult to set these up.
June 18, 2021
Popular and Modern CMS
The basis of my business is selling via the Internet, namely, through the website. I chose WordPress as the CMS for my website. The online store functionality also required the WooCommerce plugin. Many people think that WordPress is only suitable for blogs, however, I dare say that the combination of WordPress and WooCommerce allows you to create great online stores. WordPress has a great user-friendly interface and allows you to create a full-fledged website in just a few clicks.
- Free open source CMS.
- Comprehensive documentation.
- User-friendly interface.
- Unfortunately, WordPress still doesn't have a built-in backup functionality.
- There is also no built-in SEO functionality.
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.
- Flexibility - WordPress is open source software that can be used and shared by anyone. It is easy to distribute to many different teams or contributors.
- Cost - the basic version of WordPress is free (you just have to pay for a domain and web hosting).
- Plugins - because WordPress is so popular, there are tons of customizable plugins available that make managing your website very easy.
- Support - again, because of the popularity and usage, there is a wealth of info, tutorials, and a dedicated community available to help with needs.
- Easy drag and drop functionality - WordPress has different types of website build editors that allow for very easy drag and drop functionality, and easy customization in a user-friendly interface.
- Dashboard structure - though it's overall pretty easy to use, the dashboard for WordPress may take some time to get used to, especially if you are coming from another CMS that does it differently. For instance, the difference between "Posts" and "Pages" can be confusing. Some of the organization of the dashboard menus seem incoherent as well (some sub-menus appear in places I wouldn't expect them to).
- Bulk actions - WordPress allows for doing bulk actions on many pages at once, but the choices of actions is pretty limited by default. I've encountered some situations where I had to get a developer to help me with what should have been a simple bulk action.
- Lack of a hierarchical content repository view for authors - WordPress lists all of your website pages together in a paginated interface. You aren't able to easily see your site's information architecture by drilling down in a folder-like structure (Note - it's possible there are customizations or plugins that do this - I'm speaking just on the default options that I have experience with).
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.
- 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'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.
- 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.
May 03, 2021
WordPress - The Best of the Best!!
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.
- Customizable options and more control over the website as a whole
- Very user friendly (especially with the installation of the Elementor plug in)
- Many themes to choose from
- Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet responsive
- Must update plug ins on a regular basis
- Making updates on the backend can be slow at times (especially if not on a dedicated server)
- There can be a learning curve with some of the features and coding
April 21, 2021
WordPress Wows with Usability and Features
We use WordPress for building and updating our cafe's website. As the owner WordPress is easy enough for me to make simple updates and for more difficult updates we have a web administrator that assists. WordPress helps us to have a presence on the web and the abilities to also showcase our offerings and push online sales.
- Easy to add and update existing content.
- Provides a lot of possibilities (ex. plug-ins, templates, etc.).
- Many tutorials available for beginners.
- Built-in drag and drop capability.
- Poor website SEO.
- Make it more secure and less vulnerable to hackers.
April 14, 2021
You Can't Beat Free but WordPress Does!
All of my websites that I design and host are on WordPress. WordPress is used, depending on who you ask, on anywhere between 25% to 33% of all website domains. It is very easy to use for novices with a little training and very intuitive for those with more advanced skills.
- It's free
- It's easy to use
- It can be used to look like any website you see
- It's a bit bloated and thus slower than other websites
- In order to get it to load really fast, you do need some fairly advanced skills
- It is an easy target for hackers
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 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 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.
January 16, 2019
WordPress Review
Not used for business, mainly personal use. Chose for the following reasons: Free/open source, easy to use, and lots of resources for support.
- 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.
December 17, 2018
Wordpress is great for most website demands
It's been used to create websites that requires the users to be able to easily edit and update information on their pages. It is used by the organization as well as the organization supports other clients using the Wordpress platform. Among different open source content management systems available in the internet, Wordpress is highly user-friendly and easy to set up which helps save time in operations and maintenance of the website.
- Easy to set up and configure
- Easy to edit, update, delete, content on the website
- Easy to integrate with plugins and themes
- Wordpress just released a new version and the editing experience has changed quite a bit from the previous version. While it is already an improvement, an overview of the interface with the new installation would be helpful.
December 13, 2018
WordPress is Built to Impress
When we take on new clients, many times they need a website overhaul. Wordpress is our go to solution for this. I've been developing in Wordpress for a number of years that it's actually more cost effective for our agency to custom build a theme than find an off-the-shelf theme. This way we can address all the custom feature requests for the client. When the website is complete, Worpdress is very user-friendly. It is easy for us to train not only our internal staff on updates, maintenance, new content and upkeep, but also to train the client how to use their brand new website.
Since most of our clients have a Wordpress website, it is very simple for our internal staff to work on multiple client websites. An issue or problem solved on one website, means the same issue is so much quicker to resolve on the remaining client sites. Our internal staff can make changes, updates to forms, add new content, add new calls to action, build new landing pages -- all without hours of training. It's a great resource we can add to our client and account management. This really helps keep our client costs down!
Since most of our clients have a Wordpress website, it is very simple for our internal staff to work on multiple client websites. An issue or problem solved on one website, means the same issue is so much quicker to resolve on the remaining client sites. Our internal staff can make changes, updates to forms, add new content, add new calls to action, build new landing pages -- all without hours of training. It's a great resource we can add to our client and account management. This really helps keep our client costs down!
- Worpdress is very SEO-friendly. The built in permalink structure, the organization and structure of post types and pages plus the addition of the 'rhymes with toast' SEO plugin gives you a great SEO foundation.
- Wordpress is a constantly evolving piece of code. Wordpress does a great job of maintaining the core product. As new features are available, as new security issues become known, the WP team keeps you up to date with the latest and greatest version.
- The Wordpress community is strong! As a developer, this is just fantastic. If I am having trouble implementing a highly custom piece for a client, chances are someone else has already done it! And if not, I can just ask the community, review the Codex or simply Google it. I've never had to say "No, can't do that" when working in Worpdress.
- Because Wordpress is so popular, it is under constant attack from bots and hackers. New security issues are found and exploited. Our client's websites are at risk of hack or attack.
- Wordpress is a resource hog. Worpdress sites tend to load slowly, especially if you buy one of those all-in-one themes. You really need to leverage caching and minification to ensure your Wordpress site loads quickly.
- There are simply too many plugins. Wordpress needs to purge all the abandoned and non-functioning plugins in the repository. I'm always fearful of a client downloading and installing a plugin that crashes the site.
Our main website is hosted on WordPress, and I've been at several other employers who also used WordPress as their primary CRM. It is used across the company, from customer support, to product development, to sales and to marketing. Marketing owns the WordPress instance and is responsible for maintaining it, ensuring it is kept up to date, etc.
- It is constantly being improved, with new features added, because of the community code-sourcing aspect.
- Security vulnerabilities are continually being patched to keep it secure.
- It has the best plugin repository, by far. So, anytime you have a needed new feature for your website, there is usually a plugin that already exists to allow you to do what you're wanting.
- Because it is the most-used CMS, there are a lot of hackers targeting it. As such, you need to make sure you're always updating the software and patching plugins to the latest version. Not hard to do, but something you need to be vigilant about.
- Plugins are hit and miss. If it is a new plugin without many existing users and reviews, it is truly hard to know if the software package is any good.
- Sometimes there are too many options. For example, there are a dozen or so plugins for any given functionality and so you have to sift through to find the right thing.
December 07, 2018
WordPress is great for nonprofit CMS
We use WordPress as our CMS for fundraising and event sales, blog writing, and sponsor recognition. Only the marketing department uses the site, but it serves its purpose as a landing page and source of event information!
- Open-source! Being free is important for a non-profit.
- Modular! We can create as much custom content as possible through modules and plugins
- Well documented! If I have a problem, I'm not usually the only one who has experienced it and can find endless resources online about how to solve it.
- Can be easy to overload, and slow down if you aren't careful.
- Is difficult to navigate if you don't know PHP.
- Usually requires some paid plugins to execute your ideal site. Luckily there is lots of competition!