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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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Recent Reviews

Best Website CRM Tool

9 out of 10
July 02, 2022
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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)
    8.5
    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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • 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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Daniel Epstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Unfortunately the steep barrier to entry via complicated interface turned us off of the blog idea altogether.
  • The program was the right choice for our blog needs, no regrets on choosing this over the competition
  • In trying to figure out the program, our coding abilities developed further.
Lisa Keyser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Because the core software is free, we're able to deploy it on client websites without a lot of front-end costs.
  • We occasionally run into issues that take longer to fix than expected, which end up costing us some time and money.
  • We frequently onboard new clients who need technical support for their WordPress websites, so it has helped us increase business.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Positive - professional looking website that is relatively easy to design, update and maintain
  • Negative - there is a bit of a learning curve to use WordPress - it has more features than some other build-it-yourself sites, but it does require some learning to get started
Jeff Huisjen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress has been a cost effective solution for my business site
  • WordPress has given great cost options to clients when it comes to launching their site
  • WordPress sites have been easy to create and customize leading to happy clients
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy to get things up and running very quickly; can have a published site up within a day
  • Allows for immediate and direct conversations with audience
  • Allows for multiple users/contributors and managing permissions is very easy
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We don't have a web dev on our team currently, but we've referred many clients to a WP developer we partner with and have earned commissions off of those referrals
  • Faster sites have campaigns that perform better, leading to higher lifetime customer value
  • We use affiliate marketing tools on our site as well
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It has had a big ROI in terms of getting a site up and running ASAP
  • There was a bit of learning the plugins, which decreased our ROI in the short term
  • Our ROI increased, as we had less technical people use the system and had our more technical people focus on other products
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Democratizes web content manipulation by being relatively easy to use, meaning content updates can be done inexpensively.
  • Offers expandable functionality far beyond other products, meaning if there's something we want to do, we don't have to start over with another product.
  • Looking professional pays dividends, so a sharp custom theme goes a long way.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress has allowed us to distribute our product documentation to the organization internally much more easily than with other tools
  • WordPress has provided a central place for documentation related to our learning platform, which is useful for a variety of roles in the organization
  • Our small monthly fee for our WordPress site has been paid for by the ease with which we can update internal folks on changes to our platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress has saved our company a lot of money. Since it is free, it is so nice to use!
  • I can't say enough good things about WordPress. I love building our company websites with it.
  • It used to take a web developer to build a website. With WordPress it is so much easier.
James Crook ☛ Business Coach for Massage Therapists ☚ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Delivering online training via a membership web portal is one of our main business activities, so our website is integral for making that work.
  • We also sell some products via e-commerce directly online.
  • Wordpress itself is free but requires a hosting service, and we also use some paid plugins, so we are paying a few hundred dollars each month for all our web services related to Wordpress. As a vital part of our marketing AND service delivery, the ROI cannot be underestimated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Platform adoption - many people are already familiar with WordPress and recognize it as an easy and customizable tool to use, so they are more likely to jump on board.
  • Reduced costs - WordPress is less expensive than complex, enterprise-level CMS.
  • Scalability - we are able to reuse templates, components etc and quickly duplicate web properties for other related teams web needs.
  • Increased efficiency - WordPress has a smaller learning curve than our more complex CMS, which allows for quicker building of pages by page authors and less time spent doing training and product support.
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