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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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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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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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  • 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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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is the go-to industry standard CMS in my opinion and I'm sure many others would agree. It's highly robust and capable of essentially whatever you want to be done with a website. It has an endless supply of third party themes and plug-ins that just keep coming and it's easy enough to use. I'd say that the only way I'd recommend something else (like Squarespace or Wix) is for those who are on a tighter budget, don't care for much versatility/functionality and/or those who want to do it all themselves from scratch (without hiring a professional).
Daniel Epstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are wanting to start a blog and want it to look professional, maximize your search optimization, and potentially develop a passive source of income, WordPress is a great option. Just be patient because it takes a lot of time to learn, and sometimes you have to start with a preset and then bend it into what you want it to look like, as oppose to creating it from scratch.
Travis Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are looking for a website and you want the ability to edit content, add pages, and more, WordPress is for you. It has proven time and again to be the best platform for most websites. If you are looking for a small e-commerce site, there may be some other/better fits such as Shopify or Squarespace. However, if you aren't selling, or you need something more powerful, WordPress is the premier solution.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is an excellent option if you have web development experience and are willing to tackle problem solving and debugging yourself, but are otherwise limited in resources. It is much less limiting than some more curated platforms and fun to use as a developer. It provides almost enterprise-level options and stability at little to no cost. It may not be appropriate if you have limited time or experience to build and debug, or if you are a very large establishment with the resources for something more advanced.
Lisa Keyser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is scalable enough to handle any size website, from the smallest to large enterprises, universities, and more. There are very few things that you can't accomplish with it; however, some things are more easily accomplished than others. In addition, for the non-technical DIYer, there are easier platforms, though those don't offer the scalability and portability that WordPress does. The best way to determine if its a good fit is to determine what your needs are, then figure out how you would accomplish those with WordPress. We suggest it to our clients about 60% of the time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is pretty ubiquitous, so it is relatively easy to learn, and it is also easy to find someone to manage the website if you desire to outsource the support. Since there are many themes (templates) available for purchase, it is easy to design a website that fits your organization.
Jeff Huisjen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For my business where I create a website from the ground up and then pass the management of that site over to the client WordPress is great. From creation to the handoff it's very straightforward and it's easy to make clean and modern looking sites. Once the handoff is complete, it's easy for the client to make small changes and updates on their own. In my experience ecommerce has been a struggle with certain WordPress themes, but some of that may be the plugins the client wanted to use.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is one of the best tools available to build responsive and attractive websites. It can be used by both new developers and professionals to develop cool and useful web applications. Designing and web framing using the WordPress is so easy and flexible, which means one can experiment with the thousands of available templates and build an application that is best suited for them.
Victoria Hoete-Dodd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Wordpress is free to use, which is great. You only need to pay for the services you add to your site or for plugins that others have developed. With so many tutorials and guides on the web, it is usually easy enough to find help if you get stuck with anything.
Gary Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I recommend WordPress all the time for friends and clients looking to launch their own websites. I'm not a fan of the locked-in dynamic of Six and Squarespace, and feel that WordPress offers the most flexibility for web developers.

I find WordPress, for the most part, easy to use, yet powerful enough to handle whatever design or functionality I've thrown at it.

For general business websites, it can't be beaten, however, for some e-commerce applications, a dedicated e-commerce platform like Shopify is likely preferable to running WooCommerce on WordPress.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am not only likely to recommend [WordPress], I have done so. It's a reach for many teachers to extend the classroom in non-traditional ways (though that changed dramatically with COVID-19) and [WordPress] is a fairly easy (and securable) way to accomplish this. It allows students to be creative and yet still comply with a set rubric.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is our go-to platform for all things web-related. WordPress offers plans for any budget, comes with an intuitive editor with drag-and‑drop options, and it's optimized for growth, meaning that you can scale your website as your business increases its market share. We always recommend custom building sites, but if a client does not have the budget for it, WordPress offers a myriad of pre-made templates.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I quite enjoy WordPress as a CMS for my clients, most of whom are not particularly well versed in web development. No matter who their vendors are, it's a CMS that is extremely common, so everyone pretty much knows how to use it. It's relatively easy to add individual location pages for brick and mortar businesses with multiple stores.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress can made to do just about anything with the low cost to get started, which makes it popular, which means it often gets used where it is not the ideal solution. The low barriers to entry mean there's many people out there who use and sell WordPress solutions with a large variance in quality. Many people don't understand that sites created with WordPress need to be maintained with constant care and feeding to patch security issues, and do not budget their time, money, and other resources accordingly leading to frustration.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is a great solution for getting product documentation out to a wide audience. If you have capable admins who are familiar with content management systems, they should pick it up quickly. It is not for organizations without a lot of tech-savvy folks who are able to manage and update the tool on a regular basis.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is the most widely used and possibly the simplest website editor. I wouldn't recommend anything else except for Shopify in some e-commerce situations. Managing a simple one-page website up to a very complicated website or blog with hundreds of pages is very doable with WordPress. If you have too many pages, it does get cumbersome but so does every other editor with that many pages on a website.
James Crook ☛ Business Coach for Massage Therapists ☚ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you want to create a simple website, quite cheaply, and you don't have much technical knowledge, then Wordpress is a good place to start because there are so many tutorials you can follow to help you along the way. And you will need guidance the first time!

It's also incredibly flexible so it becomes even more appropriate when creating sites like eCommerce or membership sites, or other more complicated developments. The code is "open source" so if you want a customized experienced web developer can edit the actual code running the site and create literally any type of experience or interaction that is needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
First of all, WordPress is a free and open source Content Management System. At the same time, it is very popular CMS. So, you can be sure that you will have a modern and secure CMS for a long time, as well as existing technical support.
WordPress is extremely loyal in its requirements for the website developer. In general, no knowledge of web development is required.
June 15, 2021

WordPress

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a good solution but not great. I do like it but it's not for everyone or for everything. I would not be using this in a major enterprise that has significant web content, as it's not the right fit for that. Small and medium-sized businesses can benefit.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think WordPress works well for almost all scenarios and company sizes. Unless your business or need is to have very strict publishing guidelines, workflows, and governance WordPress should be a great fit. It's easy to use and you'll find resources with past experience using it. There are endless opportunities to change or improve your website because of the vast library of plugins and templates.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress would definitely be my first choice when starting a blog. It's very user-friendly and extremely easy to use. Maintenance and setup are both minimal - making it a great tool for blog beginners, as well as more experienced bloggers. It would be a great tool for a company newsletter, but not as much so if you're just trying to get a message across to your organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is particularly well suited for individuals or teams looking for a cost-effective, easy-to-maintain content management system for their website. This is especially true if you have folks who may be a little less tech-savvy and just want a place to update posts and pages. A lot of the more robust features of more complex CMS are stripped out for basic author viewership, which should help make onboarding easier. WordPress is less appropriate for large, enterprise-level companies and systems that need a very robust CMS to manage all of their content and technical needs. Also, a strong consideration would be what other marketing and technology stack tools your company/department is using - if there is an integration with a CMS that would seamlessly fit into your existing tools, that is probably worth exploring instead of using WordPress.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is great for smaller sites that can be regularly updated and that are managed by non-technical staff. However, for large enterprise websites, WordPress can be risky and prone to be hacked if not managed properly. The ability to add and install plugins with ease poses security risks and management headaches.
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