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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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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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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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What is Wix?

Wix is a website builder used to grown an online presence. The platform allows users to build their website from scratch, choose from designer-made templates, or use an AI website builder to add sections, images, and text.

What is Squarespace?

Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

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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.

8.7
Avg 8.1

Platform & Infrastructure

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

8
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8.3
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

8.3
Avg 7.4
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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.

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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.

LiveJournal and Populr are common alternatives for WordPress.

Reviewers rate Community / comment management highest, with a score of 9.1.

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

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The Best Web Content Management System in the Game!

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
10 years of experience
  • Wix and Blogger
Using sites like Wix, Square, Space, and Blogger may be more beginner-friendly as they provide more robust templates and a purely drag-and-drop interface. However, they quickly become frustrating as they are very difficult to customize. These websites make more sense for a personal blog or hobby but aren't robust enough to drive sales and grow a following.

Great!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 01, 2024
MC
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
4 years of experience

WordPress: a versatile tool for all experience levels.

Rating: 5 out of 10
September 26, 2024
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
9 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
I am the biggest fan of WordPress compared to others I've tried because you can further customize and edit your site to your liking. The others feel less intuitive and more cumbersome to update. You need to know more CSS/HTML coding in order to make a change to the other sites. With WordPress, I feel you can make more changes with a simple plugin.

Best site builder out there..

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 23, 2024
WordPress relatively easy to use, especially for beginners, with an intuitive UI. WordPress has a massive user base, extensive plugin library, and support forums, making it easier to find solutions to problems or get assistance, if we stuck anywhere during the setup of website. WordPress is highly customizable as well.

WordPress - Industry Leader in Custom, Affordable Websites

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 31, 2023
TP
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
3 years of experience
Not as user friendly, and much more bloated than these other lighter-weight CRMs, but the available integrations and total customization available from WordPress is unmatched in the industry.

Handy CMS Platform with stable functionality, supportable by both Marketing and IT

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 08, 2023
AN
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
6 years of experience
WordPress does well against HubSpot for support across a wide user base. It is easier to justify the cost for as opposed to needing to have a Web content platform and HubSpot in addition.
HubSpot is a bit easier for end users to create, maintain and publish content vs. WordPress. It also has a wider variety of features beyond Web content publishing/management.
Aprimo has had Web publishing features for over a decade and after a small amount of training, one can create Web Forms and Web pages inside the interface. I have not observed the same functionalities in Aprimo vs. WordPress for Couponing and Blogging, howeveer.

WordPress is the best CMS available.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 20, 2022
I used Wix and Squarespace for a few projects then I found WordPress, as a developer with programming background I needed the flexibility of adding a touch of code on my website be Wix did not allow me or give me that flexibility. WordPress gave me the room for customization with lots of integration options as well

Best Sitebuilder Out There Period

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 19, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
7 years of experience
WordPress is so much easier to use than either of the competitors we looked [into]. For us the decision was simple. WordPress allowed our non-designer staff to help out and get content loaded. It was an easy process that would have been much more complicated with the competitors. Additionally, the interface is easy to navigate by comparison and didn’t frustrate the non-tech savvy members of our staff.

If you have a blog you can't go wrong with WordPress.

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 16, 2022
  • Elementor, EasyWP, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Blogger, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, Tumblr, Mailchimp, Notion, Slack, Semrush, Ahrefs, Hotjar, FullStory, accessiBe, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), GoDaddy and Bluehost
It's the best option for hosting a blog on a website where you can also integrate all major marketing tools and platforms. WordPress gives you [the] freedom to use whatever tool works best for you and integrate it with your website and blog. It makes tracking, measuring, and analyzing data and performance much easier. And it has great tools to help optimize your content marketing efforts.

Swiss Army Knife of Website CMS

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 05, 2022
TM
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
10 years of experience
WordPress is by far the best website CMS available on the market. It is an open-source free solution with endless possibilities of websites that you can build. You don't need to be a developer to build a site, but there are options to use code to take your website to the next level.

Best option for making website

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
5 years of experience
It is the best and free platform if you compare others and if you will use WordPress you don't have to know how to code. Basic information will be more than enough to start. Creating pages and editing posts you created is so easy to manage. If you use other platforms, it will cost more and you need to code your website from A to Z. That's why WordPress is the best option.

WordPress: One of the Best!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 20, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
5 years of experience
I think WordPress is a superior platform compared to others because of the vast number of plugins and themes. Developers are always creating more plugins and functionality for WordPress as well, so it is constantly being improved upon. There are limitless possibilities for what you can create through this platform. If you can dream it, you can likely do it with WordPress.

If you want a robust site that is built to impress, then go with WordPress!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 14, 2021
RK
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
8 years of experience
There are other CMS and website builders in the market and while they do offer their own value, their number of developers, ability to customize and add functionality to the site, is very limited as well as their number of themes. They can't compare SEO-wise, and you can't really optimize the websites to run faster on those packaged builders because you can really optimize the server settings or code. So WordPress beats those all in one platform easily.

A clunky, vulnerable, outdated CMS with more problems than benefits

Rating: 4 out of 10
August 13, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
4 years of experience
For most small businesses, Squarespace is a better option. It provides all of the basic and intermediate functionality a business owner could want (e-commerce, forms, media, blog, etc) without the plugin and hacking nightmares of WordPress. It's also easier for clients to manage on their own—with a visual interface, instead of clunky backend forms.

Want a great blog? WordPress! Want to be confused for a week? WordPress!

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 11, 2021
DE
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
1 year of experience
I chose WordPress over the competition after copious research into the best blog software options. WordPress was consistently praised for it's SEO abilities, it's ease of use, and the wealth of add-ons and plug-ins that can expand it's functionality. It was easy to download, and the tutorials online are plentiful, albeit for a novice it can be very overwhelming.

Industry Standard for a REason

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 02, 2021
TB
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress
9 years of experience
Unless you have a very small e-commerce store, WordPress is a much better option. A WordPress site integrated with WooCommerce is a powerful shop tool, and if you aren't selling online, then WordPress is assuredly the way to go. Their WYSIWYG editor makes things as easy as can be to update your content.
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