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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

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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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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 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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Daniel Epstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Built in search engine optimization makes it easy to maximize the chances your content shows up in people's searches
  • There are very substantial design tools to ensure the blog you are designing is stylish while still being very user-friendly
  • It is a very widely used program, and is updated often. These updates are automatic and ensure your website is constantly compatible with current internet technology
  • There is almost too many options, and built in tutorials are insufficient. 3rd party videos and walk throughs are almost unavoidable
  • The page design tools sometimes fight each other. More drag and drop features that interact with each other would be better
  • The ability to type a blog in Microsoft Word and then drop it into WordPress, and then have WordPress evaluate and format the document would be nice. I'm almost certain it has this function already, but I spent 3 days trying to make it work to no avail, which means the program is not easy enough.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Flexibility
  • Stability
  • Ease of use
  • Plugins are easy to find and install
  • Requires outside plugins and themes for most functions
  • Support and documentation is available but unreliable
  • Can be conflicts between the many themes and plugins needed
Lisa Keyser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress is incredibly easy to set up and get running with little to no technical knowledge. Most web hosts will do it for you, since it's so easy.
  • With thousands of themes available for free and for low cost, WordPress can accommodate any design you can imagine.
  • The community behind WordPress is generous, and there are loads of educational opportunities both online and in person to learn and connect with other users.
  • While WordPress bills itself as easy to use, some users will need to get expert help for more complex tasks.
  • Because the WordPress plugin ecosystem is so large, it's not uncommon to run into plugin conflicts. Troubleshooting those can be frustrating, and they can cause your website to crash.
  • There are some fairly basic CMS capabilities that WordPress cannot perform out of the box, which means you need to install a plugin to accomplish them. Of course, with more plugins comes more upkeep and more potential for conflicts.
Jeff Huisjen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress websites are easily customizable
  • WordPress is very user friendly and fairly intuitive
  • WordPress is cost effective
  • If you're looking for an ecommerce platform, there may be stronger options
  • The plug and play nature of some themes lacks full customization in some areas
  • It's easy to get lost in the weeds on the backend of some Wordpress features
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides flexibility in building websites.
  • It contains number of add-ons that help in building single-page web applications like the modern web framework these days.
  • It allows users to choose from various available web templates to build a website from scratch.
  • It can be used by even novice developers who just started building web sites.
  • The huge number of available visual templates makes it difficult to chose the best one for the purpose of building a website.
Victoria Hoete-Dodd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • There are many plugins ready to add to your site.
  • You have full creative control over how you develop your site.
  • There are many people out there with extensive blogs to help troubleshoot issues.
  • If you are after a simple drag and drop type site then wordpress may be too difficult for you.
Gary Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use
  • Availability of a diverse range of themes, plugins and related services
  • Stable and powerful platform to build a variety of web projects
  • Open source allows you to move it to new hosts as needed (unlike Wix, Squarespace, etc.)
  • Web standard for websites
  • Ability to disable Gutenberg built-in
  • Enhanced security options within WordPress itself
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • GUI is easy to use
  • Security is easy to implement
  • Mobile and browser-based platforms improve accessibility
  • Themes and other creative elements are an excellent way for students to express themselves
  • A bit more scrutiny on extensions would be helpful, especially where there are multiple vendors with similar products
  • A clearer delineation between free and premium ($$) features/extensions (I need to keep everything free for students in the classroom)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Speed and performance (depending on the theme)
  • It's been around so long that there are plugins for just about everything
  • It's widely used so most developers are familiar with it
  • The flip side of most of the previous question - so if the wrong theme is used, sites can be very slow and perform poorly
  • Many times you wind up with a ton of plugins of questionable value from different people adding them over time, which can slow the site down
  • It can be slow going to figure out how to input content depending on how devs have configured the backend
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Spin up a site quickly
  • Less technical people can use
  • Has plugins that you can utilize
  • It is more difficult to build custom functionality
  • We have found when we built out custom sites, we got better load times
  • I think it could have better documentation for its plugins
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Broad User Base
  • Open Source Flexibility
  • Fast to get started
  • Breaking changes with Plugins & Themes
  • Security, Backups, & Updates easily forgotten about
  • Managed WordPress becomes a trade off between flexibility and ease of management
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • You can control who has access to the site and what parts of the site different users have access to. Great for when different roles use the same site.
  • You can format tech support articles with pictures, step by step instructions, etc.
  • The theming is flexible, especially if you know how to incorporate HTML or CSS into your site.
  • The interface takes some getting used to and there can be kind of a steep learning curve for new site editors/creators
  • It suffers slightly from too much complexity. There are a lot of formatting options, particularly once you get into the CSS world, and it can be overwhelming for the non-tech-savvy
  • Unless you have systems that are integrated with WordPress, if you have a lot of users who need access to different parts of your site, it can be cumbersome for the admin to handle.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple interface
  • Lots of options and plugins
  • Website management layout pages/posts, etc.
  • Settings are easy to update
  • Everyone uses it so there are lots of templates and companies with WordPress integration
  • With so many plugin options, there are many that don't work
  • There are always lots of spam comments on blog posts
  • Many plugins have a free version and charge for any reasonable functionality, and it's difficult to know that without testing the plugin out first, which is annoying.
James Crook ☛ Business Coach for Massage Therapists ☚ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • WordPress is so popular that it has thousands of addons, creating huge flexibility to handle almost any need you can imagine
  • WordPress can be set up to allow users at various levels to access or edit different pages or areas within the site. This is perfect for membership sites.
  • WordPress has thousands of different visual themes and huge flexibility within the design system so that it can look and feel the way we want our brand to be represented.
  • WordPress has a huge array of plugins and visual themes available, which makes it super powerful but also, unfortunately, means it is sometimes difficult to know the best or easiest way to accomplish a specific goal.
  • When editing a site, the default built-in editor is clunky to use, so we always install one of the freely available "visual editor" plugins that helps with page layout and editing.
  • The "plain" wordpress that is first installed is quite basic and it needs plugins and themes to make it work better. These are readily available but if you've never used them before it can be difficult to set these up.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use and setup
  • Plugins make it easy to quickly add capabilities
  • One click installs with hosting companies make it easy to get WP up and running
  • Built in spam filtering rather than depend on plugins(s)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Flexibility - WordPress is open source software that can be used and shared by anyone. It is easy to distribute to many different teams or contributors.
  • Cost - the basic version of WordPress is free (you just have to pay for a domain and web hosting).
  • Plugins - because WordPress is so popular, there are tons of customizable plugins available that make managing your website very easy.
  • Support - again, because of the popularity and usage, there is a wealth of info, tutorials, and a dedicated community available to help with needs.
  • Easy drag and drop functionality - WordPress has different types of website build editors that allow for very easy drag and drop functionality, and easy customization in a user-friendly interface.
  • Dashboard structure - though it's overall pretty easy to use, the dashboard for WordPress may take some time to get used to, especially if you are coming from another CMS that does it differently. For instance, the difference between "Posts" and "Pages" can be confusing. Some of the organization of the dashboard menus seem incoherent as well (some sub-menus appear in places I wouldn't expect them to).
  • Bulk actions - WordPress allows for doing bulk actions on many pages at once, but the choices of actions is pretty limited by default. I've encountered some situations where I had to get a developer to help me with what should have been a simple bulk action.
  • Lack of a hierarchical content repository view for authors - WordPress lists all of your website pages together in a paginated interface. You aren't able to easily see your site's information architecture by drilling down in a folder-like structure (Note - it's possible there are customizations or plugins that do this - I'm speaking just on the default options that I have experience with).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to change pages, create pages and add new content.
  • Easy to add extra functionality through plugins.
  • Ability to try different designs by applying different themes.
  • Too many constant updates can pose a risk.
  • Block system can be confusing for some versus the classic view.
  • Too many plugins available that can pose security risks.
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