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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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- Admin section (131)8.686%
- Mobile optimization / responsive design (129)8.585%
- Library of website themes (130)8.484%
- Page templates (128)8.282%
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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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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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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.
- 8.2Role-based user permissions(127) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Platform & Infrastructure
Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.
- 6.3API(94) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 6.5Internationalization / multi-language(79) Ratings
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Web Content Creation
Features that support the creation of website content.
- 8.3WYSIWYG editor(120) Ratings
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
- 7.3Code quality / cleanliness(121) Ratings
Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.
- 8.6Admin section(131) Ratings
The admin page is easy to navigate and use.
- 8.2Page templates(128) Ratings
The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.
- 8.4Library of website themes(130) Ratings
A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.
- 8.5Mobile optimization / responsive design(129) Ratings
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
- 8.5Publishing workflow(125) Ratings
The software allows users to set up a custom workflow for updating the website, including approval processes.
- 6.3Form generator(104) Ratings
Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.
Web Content Management
Features for managing website content
- 6.9Content taxonomy(113) Ratings
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
- 8.2SEO support(118) Ratings
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
- 7.5Bulk management(100) Ratings
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
- 8.5Availability / breadth of extensions(121) Ratings
There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.
- 8.5Community / comment management(120) Ratings
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
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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.
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- PrestaShop
- Provide Support Live Chat
- ActiveDEMAND
- Lead Liaison
- Planyo Online Booking System
- Super Monitoring
- Ontraport
- GreenRope
- Mautic (open source)
- Emma by Marigold
- Form Builder
- TrenDemon
- Brevo
- LiveChat
- Acquia DAM (Widen)
- SnapEngage
- Chatra
- Wrike
- Freshdesk
- MailerLite
- Wistia
- AWeber
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio, on marketing cloud
- Matomo Analytics
WordPress Competitors
- LiveJournal
- Populr
- Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
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(1-4 of 4)WordPress Can Save You Thousands Of Dollars On Web Development Costs And Put You In The Driver's Seat Of Your Online Vehicle!
After building hundreds of WordPress sites over the years and authoring a series of detailed WordPress training guides for beginners. I have recently turned all of my WordPress knowledge and expertise into a comprehensive Free WordPress training site at WPCompendium.org and developed WPTrainMe - a WordPress tutorials plugin that allows users to get instant access to hundreds of detailed WordPress step-by-step tutorials from their own WordPress dashboards.
- WordPress allows users with no technical knowledge or coding skills to be in complete control of their web presence.
- WordPress can save business owners thousands of dollars in web development and web design costs.
- WordPress is a powerful, secure and highly scalable online content publishing platform and business marketing tool that costs almost nothing to run.
- WordPress can be configured to automate many areas of website management and online marketing, including automatic updates and automatically driving visitors from search engines and social networks to your site whenever new content is published.
- WordPress is open source software and benefits from the contribution of thousands of community users, including web developers and web designers.
- WordPress is regularly updated (on average every 3 months) to provide users with new features, bug fixes, and to address security vulnerabilities found in previous versions.
- WordPress is the most popular and fastest growing content management system in the world
- I have written a detailed article listing 50 reasons why WordPress is the ideal choice for most website owners here: http://wptrainme.com/wordpress/50-great-reasons-why-you-should-choose-wordpress
- The biggest challenge I have found with WordPress is training - helping clients and business owners understand just how much they can achieve with WordPress. Even though there is so much great information online about WordPress, most of it is not organized into a logical system, or aimed at technical users. This is why I have years developing a comprehensive WordPress 'A-Z' training system that takes users step-by-step through every aspect of using WordPress.
WordPress would suit most business uses and applications. I would only recommend custom web development work if a business owner cannot get the functionality they need or the web design look they want from a WordPress plugin or theme.
- WYSIWYG editor
- 80%8.0
- Code quality / cleanliness
- 90%9.0
- Admin section
- 100%10.0
- Page templates
- 90%9.0
- Library of website themes
- 100%10.0
- Mobile optimization / responsive design
- 100%10.0
- Publishing workflow
- 90%9.0
- Form generator
- 90%9.0
- Content taxonomy
- 90%9.0
- SEO support
- 100%10.0
- Bulk management
- 90%9.0
- Availability / breadth of extensions
- 100%10.0
- Community / comment management
- 100%10.0
- API
- 90%9.0
- Internationalization / multi-language
- 100%10.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- A WordPress site can be professionally set up and fully configured in hours at no cost, other than the cost of purchasing a domain and web hosting.
- A WordPress can be run and managed by users with little to no technical skills.
- I have built WordPress sites for previous clients that quickly outperformed their existing static websites and continue to deliver new visitors from search engines and social media networks with very little work required other than adding new content on a regular basis.
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There is also a lot of support available online from the WordPress user community for more complex, technical-related issues or problems that are harder to pinpoint which may involve modifying code on application files or reinstalling software files, and these can be obtained at no cost from WordPress support forums, user groups (e.g. Linked In), various online tutorials around the web.
We have also developed a comprehensive WordPress training plugin that provides users with detailed and easy-to-follow WordPress management tutorials and troubleshooting checklists and diagnostic guides that can be instantly accessed from their own WordPress administration area, or, if they can't log into their sites, accessed from the online members area on our site.
- Sales and marketing
- Integration with 3rd party merchants and applications (e.g. e-Commerce, Affiliate program, analytics, etc.)
- Membership site with custom-developed WordPress plugin
- WordPress is open source and highly configurable, so a lot of customization is possible. We developed a unique custom plugin that allows us to deliver hundreds of detailed training tutorials directly into users' own dashboards. This plugin is the core of our business and connects information built with and stored on our WordPress site, to the sites of other WordPress users.
- For almost anything you can imagine or want to do with your WordPress website, there is already a WordPress plugin available that can instantly give you that functionality, or you can create a custom plugin to do this. Most existing solutions that add new functionality or a new design to WordPress are either free or very inexpensive and extremely simple to install, allowing you to save thousands of dollars on web development / web design costs.
- As our business is centered around providing non-technical WordPress users with access to a comprehensive WordPress training solution via our unique WPTrainMe WordPress training plugin (visit WPTrainMe.com for more info), our goal is to continue developing our plugin to the point where it will hopefully become an integral part of WordPress itself, providing users with instant access to a fully integrated, context-sensitive help resource.
- We believe that anything is possible with WordPress once users understand just how powerful WordPress really is, and that anyone can be in complete control of their own web presence without depending on people with advanced technical expertize, if they just learn what to do.
WordPress is now the only website building tool / online publishing platform / content management.system we use and recommend. WordPress can do just about anything that most business owners require, for very little cost to run and maintain, and users can easily learn how to operate and fully manage their own sites.
We switched to WordPress, because we believe in empowering website owners to run, manage and grow their own presence. The technical skills required to use most other web application tools typically mean that website owners have to employ the services of technical experts to get things done on their sites, which then involves unnecessary cots and time delays for the website owner.
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After discovering WordPress, we were able to build sites that could then be managed by the clients themselves with a little bit of training.
Additionally, at the time, we were building many sites for our own projects and ideas and found that the more sites we built, the more time-consuming it became to manage these, as it required editing the web pages themselves.
The single most important factor in our decision to switch to WordPress was the ease of use for clients, and the built-in content management system for us.
We were aware of the existence of WordPress for several months before we switched over, and during this time we invested hundreds of dollars in web development applications to help grow our web services business. We could have saved this money if we had used WordPress.instead.
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With a WordPress site, the website owner can be completely in control of all aspects of their own web presence once they learn how, including running everything from their own domain and choice of web hosting provider.
Using the services of professionals to help them get things done online is a choice for WordPress users, not a necessity.
- Learning how to install WordPress (very easy once you know how).
- Learning how configure WordPress settings (very easy once you know how).
- Learning how to automate WordPress for search engines and social media integration (for driving visitors automatically to your site whenever you publish new content).
Getting a professional WordPress site built and fully configured requires only hours or a couple of days. If you learn how to do it yourself, the only cost you have is registering a domain name and getting a web hosting account, which is a requirement for any website. Additionally, WordPress website owners can be up and running and growing their presence online even before deciding on a specific web design "look" for their sites. You can start with any web template and change your theme as soon as you find the design you like, and everything that you have added to your site will remain the same.
I have grown to love WordPress, as have thousands of other WordPress users, and I have always taught in my business seminars and workshops that, unless what you plan to do online requires some specific custom-built complex application, then consider using WordPress. WordPress is the ideal platform of choice to consider for most business website needs - it can save you thousands of dollars on web development costs and it puts you in the driver's seat of your own online vehicle!
- Self-taught
- Set up systems that will automatically notify search engines, social media sites and other online directories as soon as new content is published on your site and drive new visitors to your site
- Harden the security of your WordPress installation to protect your site from attacks by hackers and malicious users
- Optimize the performance and interactivity of your site to give visitors a better and more engaging user experience.
- Provide you with detailed insights and reports about visitor behavior to help improve your sales and conversions
- etc.
Every theme offers some level of customization and configurable settings, and these settings generally don't require users to modify any code in order to customize the WordPress interface.
Adding new code to WordPress can be done by either editing template files directly or by using plugins.
We did create a custom WordPress plugin for our business and used a WordPress developer to perform this service and create the plugin for us. Once the plugin was created, all we had to do was install, activate and configure the plugin in the same way that all WordPress plugins work, and all the custom code we needed to be added was instantly added.
We have spent many years creating these tutorials as part of a well-organized WordPress training system and believe this plugin could have a major impact in the area of WordPress training, especially for business owners and non-technical WordPress users.
When choosing plugins for WordPress sites, I recommend using free plugins only if they are robust, well-supported and highly-rated by the user community, and choosing premium plugins for applications where support, updates, etc. is absolutely critical. Most WordPress premium support costs are ridiculously low anyway, so it's really not an issue.
The WordPress application provides free support via an online community of general users and technical experts (e.g. developers). This support is mostly related to reporting bug fixes, security vulnerabilities, etc., which then get reviewed by the core development team for possible implementation and resolution in the next or a future version upgrade.
Most of the problems users experience with WordPress, however, tend to come from third-party plugins and themes causing conflicts or errors. These are developed by a range of different providers, developers, designers, amateur coders, etc. and so the level of support varies. Just like "apps" for mobile devices, there are developers who create robust solutions that play well with everything else on your device and they provide excellent support to users, and there are "fly by the seat of their pants" developers and/or marketers who rush out software that is really "buggy", or they don't have a great customer support structure in place to handle issues and provide solutions quickly (or at all).
I gave the rating of 8/10 in this case, because if you focus on the support you can expect to receive for "core" WordPress-related issues only (e.g. bugs or vulnerabilities in the software), there is no dedicated WordPress support "representative" that will directly assist you or manage your case - it's an open source community. And if you focus on the support you can expect to receive for third-party plugins and themes, then that varies greatly depending on who the plugin or theme developer is, and whether you are using a free or premium plugin or theme.
- Browsing their support forums
- Reading the documentation on their site
- Staying informed about educational events and initiatives for the user community (e.g. WordCamp, WordPress TV, etc.)
- Receiving regular software upgrades automatically
- Visiting sites of other WordPress experts for tips and inspiration
- Expanding functionality (e.g. adding a membership site, customer poll, contact form, advertising banner management system, e-commerce, etc. - can be done in a couple of mouse-clicks with no technical skills required)
- Changing the entire look and feel of your site's web design (can be done in a couple of mouse-clicks with no technical skills required)
- Adding, editing and publishing media rich content to the web instantly (can be done in a couple of mouse-clicks with no technical skills required)
- Installing WordPress on a domain name (can be done in less than a minute with a couple of mouse clicks)
- Updating software and software components (can be done in a couple of mouse-clicks with no technical skills required)
- If you want to customize the application you will need to know how to code or edit PHP. It's best to hire a WordPress developer for this area.
- In terms of WordPress site management, performing a complete maintenance routine (upgrading and backing up WordPress files and database, troubleshooting, etc). There are ways to automate some aspects of the process (e.g. backups), but to perform a complete and thorough maintenance routine requires a step-by-step system. Once you know the process, however, then it's quite easy to do and takes only about 15-20 minutes to do. Learning how to manage WordPress is covered in detail in our WPTrainMe WordPress training tutorials plugin (WPTrainMe.com), so anyone can learn how to easily do it.
- In terms of WordPress site security, hardening your WordPress installation security. Internet security is a complex issue, and there are ways to protect your WordPress installation from hackers and malicious users using various plugins, but this requires knowing what to do and following a step-by-step process. Once you know the process, however, then it's quite easy to do and most of it only has to be done once. Learning how to secure and protect a WordPress site is covered in detail in our WPTrainMe WordPress training tutorials plugin (WPTrainMe.com), so anyone can learn how to easily do it.
The WordPress mobile interface that site visitors see, therefore, depends on the theme the user has installed. If the user chooses a mobile "responsive" WordPress theme for their site, their site will display beautifully on all types of devices. There are many excellent WordPress theme design companies and hundreds (if not thousands), or visually stunning responsive themes to choose from. All a user has to do to have a "mobile-friendly" website is choose a "mobile-friendly" theme.
There are other website applications available that may be easier to use, but most of these require users to run their websites on the application's domain, not on their own domain.
One of my core beliefs is that businesses should grow their own assets online, not someone else's. WordPress is not only very easy-to-use once you learn how, but it also lets you publish unlimited content on your own site, and hence, continually grow your own asset.
Additionally, WordPress offers a multisite function that allows organizations and institutions to manage networks of sites managed by separate individual site owners, but centrally administered by the parent organization. You can also expand WordPress into a social networking or community site, forums, etc.
The same scalability applies to web design. You can start with a simple design and then scale things up to display sites with amazing visual features, including animations and video effects, sliding images and animated product image galleries, elements that appear and fade from visitor browsers, etc.
The scaling possibilities of WordPress are truly endless.
Additionally, WordPress is offered to users as open-source software, which means that anyone can customize the code to create new applications and make these available to other WordPress users.
It is very tempting to start adding lots of plugins to your WordPress site, however, as there are thousands of great plugins to choose from and so many of them help you do amazing things on your site.
If you begin to notice performance issues with your WordPress site (e.g. pages being slow to load), there are ways to optimize the performance of your site, but this requires learning the process. WordPress users can learn how to optimize their WordPress sites by downloading the WPTrainMe WordPress training plugin (WPTrainMe.com) and going through the detailed step-by-step WordPress optimization tutorials.
- Aweber - autoresponder integration. Visitors can sign up for newsletters and opt-in forms on the WordPress site and all the email marketing is then run from the Aweber application.
- HotelsCombined database application - integrated the travel and hotel booking application with an affiliate site. Visitors can search for travel destinations and book hotels using the third-party software from HotelsCombined on the front-end, and the backed of the site is all WordPress.
- e-Commerce. Customers can purchase and download products from various sites we have built and pay using their credit card or Paypal through the secure merchant facilities we use on the site.
- As WordPress continues to grow, more and more systems and applications are developing plugins or add-ons every day that allow their technologies to integrate easily and seamlessly with WordPress.
- File import/export
- Javascript widgets
- Improved features
- Bug fixes
- Security vulnerabilities from previous versions addressed.
- More improved and new features
- More bug fixes
- More security vulnerability issues addressed.
WordPress is just about right for us
- Drag and drop functionality for adding new widgets is very productive. Downloading or adding new widgets is easy. Enabling, disabling them is also fast and easy.
- Newer theme instances do this much better and more simply than older ones. We just updated our theme and this makes changes in widgets and menus much faster, easier.
- Edits to content are fast, immediate. The preview function is especially helpful for page layout changes. Absence of coding requirements makes adding new pages/posts very fast, simple. We are changing site content every week. This is especially helpful for edits to widgets that can be previewed before launching.
- Library/media functionality makes uploads new images, art, doc files much faster and easier than other solutions. The viewer enables you to clearly see what you are uploading before you do. Pretty self explanatory. Limitations in file size that existed in older themes have been resolved, but you must upgrade to newer versions of your theme(s) to take advantage of this, otherwise you have to manually code the file size limitation in your WP theme.
- Creating new pages is exceptionally easy, fast and does not requires coding skills. This means we can stand up landing pages, download pages and others on almost a moment's notice for new product launches, marketing campaigns and other uses. Very useful for creating new landing pages for programs, launches and other marketing and sales tasks. We can password protect these pages, or requires registration (through the built in Pardot widget).
- A WYSIWYG type page/post editor would be highly desirable but possibly outside the limits of WP. Ability to save page/posts as templates (not in the WP sense but as in the MAP sense) would be better. Newer instances of WP themes have largely resolved this, however, if you really want/need to see what's going you must use the text editor. Simple HTML skills are required
- Could be limitations of our unique apps/widgets but understanding how the various apps interact is difficult at time. This is a limitation of our site design and the theme that was chosen and ultimately adapted for our site.
- Prefer a better list management function than what is presently available for things like partner listings, channel, office locations etc. Again, this was/is a custom adaptation of WP for our site. Not recommended for everyone. A native WP app should be used for things like partner lists, office locations and the like.
- Major one is improved employee efficiency. We are able to effect quick changes immediately such as phone no changes, employee changes, job postings, HR changes.
- Do not yet use the Pardot plug-in which will be very helpful for standing up landing pages much faster even than Pardot can do this.
- We have eliminated the need for dedicated fractional FTE. We are able to effect most changes ourselves with minimal effort.
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- No clearly defined or communicated roadmap was ever created.
- Phases of implementation were likewise not clearly organized or discussed in advance. I inherited control after change in leadership in our company
- Developer notes were not available. Understanding functionality of things like widgets was a conversation with a developer.
- The menu feature is really great - allows rebuilding and adding of menus on the fly.
- Web page changes are simple, effective unless the pages call a PHP file from the server. For that I have to get an IT resource involved.
- Built in CSS informs page layout, coloration, font structure etc. This is a plus, it's also a minus if you want to change any of the style sheet elements.
- Finding the referenced PHP files that the menu item is calling for. Even our IT guys have to dig around and scratch their heads on this one. Perhaps if we had built it ourselves the process would be easier
- Limitations of CSS constrain things like font, coloration etc. I can hard code changes into the page but that means these have to be done one at a time.
- SEO is not fully optimized...guess I need to spend a few $$ to get the full SEO story from WordPress.
WordPress Is The Easiest Way To Run Your Business Online
- 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 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.
- 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.
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- Implemented in-house
- The initial transfer of data was a little complicated due to differences in the database structure between WordPress and the old system.
- Online training
- Self-taught
- 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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- Scalable.
- Flexible.
- Easy to implement.
- Easy to maintain.
- Customizable.
- As in any open source CMS, it require some eucation (fortunately largely available online).
- Increased employee efficiency
- Improved content management
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- Prior Experience with the Product
- The plugin integration system was brilliantly integrated at the time, and the community has been improving it since then.
- The core system updates keep improving platform's functionality and security
- The differences between wordpress.org and wordpress.com makes it confiusing for beginners.
- Wordpress has been labelled for years as a blogging platform - it needs to be rebranded as a powerful CMS platform.