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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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Best Website CRM Tool

9 out of 10
July 02, 2022
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Admin section (131)
    8.6
    86%
  • Mobile optimization / responsive design (129)
    8.5
    85%
  • Library of website themes (130)
    8.4
    84%
  • Page templates (128)
    8.2
    82%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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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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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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  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is Wix?

Wix is a free, hosted website builder, designed to be user-friendly and customizable without requiring coding from the user. It is well-known for its eCommerce solution, which allows users to build an online store.

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.

8.2
Avg 8.0

Platform & Infrastructure

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

6.4
Avg 7.7

Web Content Creation

Features that support the creation of website content.

8
Avg 7.6

Web Content Management

Features for managing website content

7.9
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.

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WordPress Technical Details

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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 Admin section highest, with a score of 8.6.

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

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Martin Aranovitch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • xsitepro,frontpage,dreamweaver,joomla,blogger
I started out using regular web applications to build websites until I discovered WordPress is 2006. All of the sites I have built since then have been WordPress. Knowing all I know about WordPress now, I wouldn't recommend anything else for most business owners. WordPress allows me to build sites that can do almost pretty much anything I can imagine - e-commerce sites, membership sites, provide customer support, integrate with social media, etc ...
Fedor Paretsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ghost
Ghost is another CMS and Editor that I believe is a bit more blogging- and article-focused. There isn't as an extensive list of themes and extensions, but the UI is a bit more modern and faster. Regardless, WordPress provides more flexibility for creating a site that isn't designed to be a blog.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Professionally speaking, Wordpress rises above other similar applications. When working with students I usually recommend WordPress for more of a professional learning experience. Although it may take more time to learn and understand, I explain that the data and site management feature is a wealth of knowledge when publicizing your work and tracking your audience. Wordpress isn't a drag and drop editor, but can still be customized in similar ways or allow for HTML editing. For students who may be blogging (I did that a lot with students in the classroom) WordPress does the best job when writing and sharing posts. I also share my own professional education blog and how I use WordPress for that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While all these three products have special functions on their own, WordPress has the ability to expand itself to be used in place of any of them. The major advantage with WordPress is the flexibility of creating a simple, low-maintenance, low resource-consuming website as well as creating a highly customized website. Also, it has the best editing experience among all three.
Dave Moll | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We made an agency decision many years ago to get on the Wordpress train and stay on it. We didn't want to try and manage multiple web platforms. At the time, Wordpress wasn't the most developer-friendly choice but it was starting to inch ahead in popularity. So we selected Wordpress as our go-to web platform based on the fact we believed it would be the best ROI for years to come. I'd love to say it was the features, the support, the community, etc. But it was really all about the ROI for us. We didn't want to spend the time on a Drupal, for example, just to do one Drupal site every other year.
Tim Colling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Wix and Squarespace offer low cost of entry with ongoing hosting and operating costs. They make it seem easy to create attractive websites but eventually most cases we have seen end up running into limitations with respect to extensibility and SEO opportunities.

FusionCMS is another CMS that we have worked with. In that one case, the client insisted upon it. It is used by very few organizations, compared to WordPress, and so there are far fewer affordable developers with whom we can work on it and far fewer addons available at little or no cost to extend or enhance it.
Lauren Golden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe WordPress is light years more robust than drag and drop templates websites. I do use it in conjunction with ClickFunnels because of the ease of use of that platform with CRM, email marketing and ecommerce built in. The plugin makes it easy for me to utilize both with ease.
Ben Beck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The two other open source tools, Joomla! and Drupal, were at one time comparable to WordPress but have since been left behind as WP has more developers working on it. Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace are all great platforms for small companies who don't want to spend any attention on their website... but they are much more limited in extendability than WordPress is.
December 08, 2018

Great for Small Business

Adam Montgomery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is much more user friendly than Drupal or Blackbaud. Drupal is very limited and you need a developer to set it up. Blackbaud gets very messy with the code. You have to know what you are doing.
Brock Ross | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress and ONTRAPORT do each have their own strengths and weaknesses--what ONTRAPORT lacks in versatility, it makes up for with user-friendliness. Really the use of either comes down to your specific needs. ONTRAPORT isn't currently equipped to build a fully-functioning website structure; it's better used for making discrete sales pages and forms (which it does at least as well or better than Wordpress, certainly more easily).
Patricia Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have selected WordPress for simplicity of use and installation. We have not had any major problems with its use and best of all, it is free and has a large amount of documentation and user communities around the world. We have not had expenses with the use of this platform, rather, it has increased sales and followers in social networks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are a number of alternatives to WordPress which has same features such as Drupal, Joomla, Go Daddy website builder, Wix, Jekyll, and Ghost platform. These are all Content management systems providing varieties of features same as WordPress. Drupal is much better from all these alternatives of WordPress and becoming popular day by day.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • elucid and glob
Relatively simpler development and admin sections in comparison with other CMS solutions I've used, I would overall recommend using WordPress if possible on a project. As there are so many plugins and themes available, I have found that WordPress sites are much easier and quicker to extend and/or modify when compared with ones based on other systems. The relative ease of managing the full stack of WordPress's scope also gives a better feeling of control over a site built on it, with just the usual concerns of security and performance, which you get with all sites and systems.
Benjamin Hale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We selected WordPress because of the community, flexibility, and cost. With the main reason being the community and support system that exists. This means we can find talent to make custom plugins, customize themes, and maintain the website easily and on a reasonable budget.
January 16, 2018

Gotta love open-source

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Joomla in a previous role. I found editting to be cumbersome because modules were managed in a different window than the main content. Whereas in wordpress, the entire page's copy is managed within the same window. It makes content edits simple & quick.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I personally prefer WordPress after using ExpressionEngine and Craft CMS. The ease of getting a site up and running quickly far exceeds the other two. Plus, deploying a site from my local environment to staging to production is much simpler. WordPress is also more flexible out of the box than the other two.
Shelle Pourmanafzadehardabili | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Squarespace is great to use if you do not want to do any coding and do not particularly care about SEO, but you are paying for convenience. WordPress it is likely you will need to purchase hosting and will want to invest in a theme that you can use as a base of design and development, but you own your content, so it can easily be duplicated/transferred and you do not pay a monthly fee.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is a bit easier to use than Joomla and Drupal, but lacks some features of these competitors. If you want to build out a truly custom site, Drupal is a strong choice, but you better have some coding experience. Whereas with WordPress, you can pretty much drop and drag a majority of your site and still end up with something nice.
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