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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 12, 2023
Best site builder out there..
Score 8 out of 10
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We use WordPress primarily for creating e-commerce web stores across various industries such as education, fashion, and marketing. WordPress requires no prior experience in coding to develope the webpages and we can integrate various plugings from the store to add more features to the website like - payment gateway, social share buttons. We streamline the development process, enhance functionality, and cater to the specific needs of different business sectors.
- WordPress is user-friendly and good for SEO as well
- Lots of customization is available through plugins.
- User Management and access control is better than other CMS
- Easy E-commerce Integration with woocommerce plugin.
- Security of the website could improve.
- Speed of the websites is not that great..after installing 7-8 plugins I've found.
- There are various plugins of poor quality that can be improve in my opinion.
October 31, 2023
WordPress - Industry Leader in Custom, Affordable Websites
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use a custom-built theme on top of WordPress platform. We also use a wide variety of WordPress plugins and integrations to complete our CMS stack including WooCommerce e-com store integration. We have a small marketing team and also several 3rd party resources that collaborate together through the platform for all website-related tasks including coding, order fulfillment, and basic edits through the WYSIWYG editor.
- 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.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
WordPress is a great platform for hosting a Web Site and its content. It not only allows you to create a Web Site and manage its content but also to host Coupons, Blogs, and other features. It has been very good as a Marketing Web Site platform, including in situations where multiple Web sites are hosted for different Divisions.
- Coupons
- Blogs
- Web Pages
- Plug Ins
- It is a bit hard for non-technical users to administer it since the back end of WordPress involves PHP and JavaScript.
- Some users may not like the interface for composing and publishing content or may not remember to publish their work and leave it in Draft mode.
- There may be a need to further publicize the formal training program from WordPress with certifications. In past roles we have needed to document everything we do in it very closely and do a great deal of deskside coaching, more so than with other Web content platforms.
December 20, 2022
WordPress is the best CMS available.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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
August 01, 2022
Nothing like WordPress - Best Ever
Score 10 out of 10
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As a developer WordPress saves me 80% development time. This Php-based CRM helps me to add custom design in the website very easily. WordPress is handy and easy to manage, even a person who doesn't have any coding experience can use WordPress. Ultimately WordPress helps us to manage our organization's website dynamically.
- Drag and drop option.
- Can add multiple plugins with no restrictions.
- Easy user management.
- Large community support.
- Need to improve security.
July 13, 2022
WordPress For The Win!
WordPress is our CMS (content management system) of choice for all our blog content properties. Administration is extremely easy since WordPress is operated as a SaaS and does not needed to be loaded on a centralized system.
- 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.
July 02, 2022
Best Website CRM Tool
Score 9 out of 10
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WordPress helps our business to make it online easily. It is easy, flexible, and faster. WordPress helps me too. update posts easily as it doesn't require any coding knowledge. One of the best things is it has a proper user management system to create users and assign them as per the required roles.
- SEO Friendly
- No Coding Required
- Most of the plugins are free
- Need to fix security system, as many times i feel comprised in security.
January 07, 2022
WordPress 7 Years Plus User Experiance
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- 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.
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.
November 24, 2021
Love using WordPress for our corporate blog
We are currently using WordPress to host our corporate blog and website. It is primarily used by the marketing department to push out and update content. It helps us host our content all in one centralized location while also creating a pipeline of content to be pushed out across different content pillars.
- Easy to navigate
- Easy to push out new content
- Easy to have multiple users on the platform at the same time
- One-stop shop
- There are lots of features, so you need to familiarize yourself with where everything is.
- Provide more info on what each section means (particularly the meta description/SEO sections).
October 26, 2021
Best option for making website
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
First of all, it is free. With WordPress, you don't need to know to code. It has lots of plugins and themes that make your work easier. If you choose the right tool, you can make some great websites. We were using it for our internal websites. Also, we're doing WordPress websites for customers, too. Our IT team was using it and was glad to use it.
- It is free
- Great optimization
- Fully changeable user interfaces
- Easy to use admin panel
- Working well even in lower servers
- Should support more extensions
- WordPress should check all extensions that some of them contains dangerous things
- Standard admin panel must have more customize options
- Should be more options for security on admin panel
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.
- Blog writing
- Platform to incorporate a magnitude of specific plugins
- User management
- WordPress has a moderate learning curve when starting out.
- Some basic website functionality could be part of the base installation such as sending email.
- Building a truly responsive site is very challenging but I'm sure an experienced designer using the right web builder can work magic.
WordPress is simply one of the best and easiest content management systems to use. It is simple enough for first-time users to learn, yet robust enough for experienced users to get the full functionality out of a CMS if needed. It's my platform of choice when putting up a website and there is no lack of developers, themes, and plugins to help you get stuff done. When compared to other platforms, this can't be beaten for its functionality, freedom, and speed. What is solves is the ability to put up a good quality website at a low cost and with tons of functionality.
- Content management system for blog
- Functionality for SEO and ease of use and customization
- Speed, speed, speed. You can make this CMS blazing fast with the right optimization and hosting.
- The only thing I could gripe about is not having a fully fluid builder like Showit but that is it. There are similar builders like it but not that flexible.
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.
August 02, 2021
Industry Standard for a REason
We use WordPress for our website and have implemented WordPress for multiple companies. This has proven to be the easiest and best platform for websites. The editing interface is very easy and makes it very easy to give customers the ability to edit their site themselves. We implement WordPress for nearly every website client.
- Great editing ability
- Lots of plugins to increase functionality
- Could clean-up the backend to make it even more user friendly
WordPress is the most-used content management system in the world. Because of its ubiquity, we use it on about half of our clients' websites. While our current website is powered by WordPress and has been since 2015, we will be switching to a different platform later this year. Generally, it presents a quick and (mostly) free way to get a presence on the internet, with tons of free themes, plugins, and integrations that make it fairly easy to create a custom website for your business or hobby.
- WordPress is incredibly easy to set up and get running with little to no technical knowledge. Most web hosts will do it for you, since it's so easy.
- With thousands of themes available for free and for low cost, WordPress can accommodate any design you can imagine.
- The community behind WordPress is generous, and there are loads of educational opportunities both online and in person to learn and connect with other users.
- While WordPress bills itself as easy to use, some users will need to get expert help for more complex tasks.
- Because the WordPress plugin ecosystem is so large, it's not uncommon to run into plugin conflicts. Troubleshooting those can be frustrating, and they can cause your website to crash.
- There are some fairly basic CMS capabilities that WordPress cannot perform out of the box, which means you need to install a plugin to accomplish them. Of course, with more plugins comes more upkeep and more potential for conflicts.
WordPress has been a huge help in managing and creating websites both for my side graphic and web design business as well as for my clients. Through the use of their system I am able to quickly and easily setup and launch a clients new website by customizing a theme the client likes with colors, text, and layout. Because WordPress tends to be very user friendly, it's also easy to pass the management of the site over to the client once it's created.
- WordPress websites are easily customizable
- WordPress is very user friendly and fairly intuitive
- WordPress is cost effective
- If you're looking for an ecommerce platform, there may be stronger options
- The plug and play nature of some themes lacks full customization in some areas
- It's easy to get lost in the weeds on the backend of some Wordpress features
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've used Wordpress for more than a decade at various organizations and in my own personal life. I've used it largely for blogging, sharing our news and content with my organizations' audiences. Due to its nature as a blog, it allows for a more casual tone and a more direct way to speak directly with our users.
- Ease of use
- Robust features
- Variety of attractive themes
- Has been slower to keep up with competitors in overall look and design
- Limited options for use other than a traditional blog
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
June 28, 2021
Helpful documentation tool for complex products
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.
- You can control who has access to the site and what parts of the site different users have access to. Great for when different roles use the same site.
- You can format tech support articles with pictures, step by step instructions, etc.
- The theming is flexible, especially if you know how to incorporate HTML or CSS into your site.
- The interface takes some getting used to and there can be kind of a steep learning curve for new site editors/creators
- It suffers slightly from too much complexity. There are a lot of formatting options, particularly once you get into the CSS world, and it can be overwhelming for the non-tech-savvy
- Unless you have systems that are integrated with WordPress, if you have a lot of users who need access to different parts of your site, it can be cumbersome for the admin to handle.
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.
June 15, 2021
WordPress
WordPress runs a few of our smaller sites on campus. It has been a tool that is easy to adopt and the admins are generally happy with it. I like that you can use the add ons that make sense for what you are trying to deliver with the software.
- Flexibility
- Easy hosting options
- Too many options