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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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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Admin section (131)
    8.6
    86%
  • Mobile optimization / responsive design (129)
    8.6
    86%
  • Library of website themes (130)
    8.5
    85%
  • Page templates (128)
    8.3
    83%

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.

8.1
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.

WordPress Competitors

WordPress Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

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 and Mobile optimization / responsive design 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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Lori Berkowitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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WordPress is used to run the organization web site, as well as to build sites for clients. It is used for everything from small business websites to custom web applications.
  • WordPress is easy for users to understand, even if they have limited technical experience. There are a large number of resources where people can get help and answers to their questions.
  • WordPress is very versatile. A site can start off small and simple, and add complex features over time, such as eCommerce, surveys, mailing list integration, and more.
  • WordPress is open source software that thousands of developers are building and using it every day. Security issues are found and fixed quickly. Users get the benefit of security and features updates with the ease of clicking a button.
  • The search feature needs to be improved, especially the ability to search by multiple criteria.
WordPress is well suited to most types of websites, from the smallest to the largest. While it can be customized to do just about any web task, it is less suited to situations where content management is not the main purpose of the site.
  • WordPress has had the positive impact of being the main source of income for my company. The software is free and flexible, and can be used to provide products and services without a lot of overhead.
  • It is easy to teach clients how to use WordPress and to point them to outside resources where they can learn more. This makes training time shorter and clients happier.
  • Since WordPress is so flexible, it is easy to add new services as they are needed without having to rebuild the entire project.
I have used most open source content management systems including Drupal and Joomla. Drupal is also great software, but hard for clients to learn how to use. WordPress can do everything that Drupal does without the high barrier to entry. Joomla is usable, but not in the same class as WordPress and Drupal.
WordPress is released under the GPL license and does not require renewal. I do upgrade the software whenever a new version is available.
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Owner and Web Developer
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The required person has skills in using WordPress, administering WordPress, and developing WordPress websites, themes, and plugins.
  • Business website
  • Building client websites
  • Internal applications
  • WordPress has worked very well for eCommerce sites
  • Community websites for non-profit organizations
  • May eventually rebuild external eCommerce and customer service portal to be part of our WordPress site.
  • Build custom web applications for clients.
Yes
Before WordPress was around, I used the open source PHP/MySQL content management systems available at the time, including Drupal, Mambo, PostNuke, and e107. They were replaced to make site management greatly simplified than what it was before, and to make custom development much easier.
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Ease of use for both clients and developers.
I would have skipped most of the other products and gone directly with WordPress.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
It was easy to adapt WordPress to perform the same functions that the old system was performing.
  • The initial transfer of data was a little complicated due to differences in the database structure between WordPress and the old system.
It was much easier than expected! Other than the initial data transfer, it was an amazingly smooth and easy process.
  • Online training
  • Self-taught
It is very easy to find online resources to learn how to do just about anything with WordPress.
WordPress is fairly easy to learn without training, especially for people who have experience with common computer software like word processors. I would not recommend using it without any training at all. While it is relatively easy to use, there is a lot that it does, so a little training can go a long way.
Considering that almost all support for WordPress is done by volunteers, I believe the support is amazing. Friendly and helpful community members and contributing developers spend a lot of time in the forums answering questions and solving problems.
At every single WordCamp that I have attended since the foundation was in existence.
  • Managing content is very simple and easy to learn.
  • Working with images, video, and other media has been greatly improved over the years, and is now quite usable.
  • Administering sites is pretty straightforward and easy to learn and to train people on.
  • Due to the large amount of administration functions, it can be cumbersome to locate the one you are looking for.
  • Media handling is much better than it used to be, and well integrated, but could use some better features to manage the media and display it in different ways.
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The mobile interface is clean and easy to use.
WordPress is by far the most usable system I have come across in over 10 years of using and evaluating it and products like it. It is easy for clients to learn, easy to build with, and easy to develop extensions too. The community and variety of themes and plugins that are available make it even more valuable.
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