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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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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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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Nick Walters | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Once it's set up by a web designer, it's very user friendly for non-technical people like me. I tried to set up pages,etc. but I wasted tons of time. I had a developer set up the framework then show me how to do blog updates, etc. and it made it so much better. Plus it kept down my costs.
Abid Sheikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
WordPress is best for beginners because new users can build a responsive and professional website using WordPress. If you want to design your personal website, blog, business website, or even a classified website, WordPress is the best option for you. Now even there a lot of premium themes that offer PHP script features, so you can design any kind of website. Only there are few scripts, where you will have to buy the premium plugins, otherwise, it works almost with every project.
May 19, 2021

WordPress Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is probably utilized best for organizations who need a web interface that can generally function well for end users, provide customizable experiences for backend users (not all backend needs will be the same) and most importantly, for organizations that need to share a lot of information (whatever that may be) with their end users via this interface!
Natalie C. Winslow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If a company wants to build a website themselves, then I would not recommend WordPress. Wix or Squarespace would be better for that. However, if they want a website that can scale to do pretty much anything, as well as being easy to update, then WordPress would be a good choice.
Mitchel Laman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's hard to imagine a scenario where WordPress cannot be a fit. Certainly, single-page and brochure-ware-type sites are a fit. But WordPress is so robust there are literally thousands of options for use: BuddyPress makes for a great private social network, WooCommerce makes for a fantastic and world-class e-commerce store, WPForms makes for great data collection and LearnDash sets up for a very nice LMS.

Perhaps WordPress would be less appropriate at the high-end, enterprise-class type websites of a .com company. High customizations might not be the best fit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The look and features of the website should be supported by available themes and plugins and supported by trusted vendors. There is a huge selection of themes and plugins you can use which will create distinct look, therefore for most cases, WordPress should be well-suited.
However, there are some cases WordPress will be less appropriate: (1) When you want the look which not available in any theme out there. You can build your own theme yourself of course, but it requires higher technical skill. (2) When you want to use a website as an application, e.g. it has data entry, report, interactive analysis, etc.
Josh Stapp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is extremely well-suited for news, blog, and basic sites particularly if they are higher volume and you want a cheap and fast solution without much configuration. It is not well-suited if you want to design every aspect of the site and how it works rather than just using a plugin. Especially if there is a lot of backend complexity.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is perfect for small business owners who need "popular" solutions (e.g running an online shop, blogs, portfolio sites) It has a very large library of free and paid plugins that can get you a lot of the functionality needed without having a degree in programming. However, knowledge of web development can be helpful for bigger sites - especially those that rely on custom code as the more complex it becomes, the greater the likelihood of encountering weird bugs

For more complex sites, some benefits of WordPress start turning into limitations and add development hours. For example, themes and plugins tend to load in assets that are not all needed for a particular client's usage and this can hurt performance (e.g. Google PageSpeed) and in turn SEO. However, there are third-party caching providers that can offset some of this.
Anthony Burke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While I would strongly recommend patience along with it, I think WordPress is very powerful and customizable. With a little elbow grease, it can do and be anything you want it to be. Also, in my experience, I associate WordPress with having full control and ownership over your site and not having your domain "held hostage" or having to rent it. I've heard horror stories that lead me to believe this isn't true with some services other than WP. Could be hearsay.
Jonathan Rockett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe WordPress has the features, flexibility and user-friendliness to be the best choice for building virtually any website. The only exceptions might be for an extremely specialized web application that needs to be built from the ground up, or an ecommerce website. While you can certainly build and operate an ecommerce website with WordPress (using 3rd party plugins, like WooCommerce), competitors such as Shopify and BigCommerce are extremely specialized in focusing exclusively on ecommerce, are easier to use and have 'out of the box' features built in that are specifically for running an ecommerce website.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I only have minor complaints. I create and curate content for our site, and it's been easy to learn and get the functionality I need. I work in the site daily, and for the daily needs we have -- embedding video, photo galleries, stories, etc. -- [WordPress] handles the content and load well.
The media component is well-designed and easy to navigate.
Ashley Mumm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I feel like WordPress is great for a mix of experience levels. It does require some basic knowledge of management programs, but with some assistance in getting it set up and a tutorial of how to navigate it, I personally prefer WordPress over any of the other tools that limit your ability to customize and change things, like Squarespace or GoDaddy's builder. For folks without the ability to be trained, it might not make sense to use, as there could be a large learning curve. For us Millennials, blogging was our jam in the early 2000's with LiveJournal and Blogger. That prepared us well for a world where WordPress can do more than simply act as a blog.
David Fox | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In most cases, I would recommend using WordPress for your website. We have used it for a wide range of types, including e-commerce, without any issues. If you need a very complex, very custom design, you might try a platform like Joomla or Drupal, but then you run into the issue of needing a niche programmer to maintain and troubleshoot any issues. With WordPress, anyone can edit and maintain the site, and that is one of the big pluses of using the platform.
Mary Burke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is very easy to work with. It provides an outlet for storytelling and allows others to engage with my work, when [they] otherwise would not. I work in archives, which is fairly closed off from the public. Using WordPress allows me to showcase our amazing collection and our department's import and impact on the campus, even though we're in the background.
Terri Betts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a novice like me, it isn't super hard. I am not a social media person in general so most of my actions in this area are related to work. I have used WordPress to create blogs for health related focuses and to support other fundraising activities within our non-profit. I fell it works well for these. I have not tried it for other areas so far.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well-suited if you have an in-house developer who can run continual maintenance on the site. If you don't have a developer, then it can be costly and challenging to make updates and protect your site from attacks. WordPress can be very customizable if you have the knowledge to do so.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using it as a departmental blog/intranet means it isn't directly accessible from the internet. Of course, we do keep it up to date but the risk of having Wordpress running is manageable this way. If you are internet accessible, please do keep it up-to-date, as there are too many issues if you don't.
Joe Gatto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is the first choice blog creator for anyone who wants to write a blog about anything. It's perfect for any business that can benefit from an SEO friendly blog, which is almost all businesses these days. It's not so well suited for e-commerce websites, even though there are many plug-ins for that. It's not so appropriate for an older person who gets intimidated by technology and will lose their patience in the learning curve.
Darien Chaffart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is well suited for hosting practically any website; whether it's promoting a business, a blog, an ecommerce site, or a static website - WordPress is well equipped to handle all of these things. However, large companies who want a truly custom solution or have a very specific vision for their site (or do not want to hire a developer who understands PHP) may want to look elsewhere. Also, anyone who lacks basic web design skills (and doesn't want to learn them) may want to consider a solution like Wix or Squarespace, which can be simpler to use but lack the versatility WordPress brings
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used several web platforms, and WordPress is by far my favorite. With all of the customization options, it was a must have for our more complex store platform. I love the ability to add plug ins to give a plethora of capabilities from customizable shipping options, to customizable cart options, to everything between!
Dan Hanna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is well suited for building 90% of the websites my company builds for its clients. It is perfect for building static websites as well as advanced sites with contact forms and extensive headers. There have only been a few instances where I would need to custom code due to not having the functionality in WordPress.
Lance Ratze | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WordPress is free and you have ownership and control of your website and content. You can choose your own web hosting company. There are a lot of extensions, add-ons, and plugins available to help make your website easy to manage and extend if needed. Many templates and design options are available, so that you're not starting from scratch. Because you're in charge of your website. This means you are also responsible for security, making backups, and installing updates. Some of these features you can automate, but if you want a website that's completely hands off or you don't want to hire someone to oversee then maybe WordPress isn't well suited for you. Also, if you're looking for something that is more drag and drop then it may not be appropriate for you either.
Joseph Benton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is easy to learn and use, so anyone who is new to website design just needs to know a few things before they get started but otherwise it is suitable for both novices and experts. Perhaps one of its downfalls is that it has too many options when used in combination with themes and plugins.
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