WordPress FTW! ...most of the time.
Updated July 07, 2015
WordPress FTW! ...most of the time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
3.8.1
Modules Used
- A cache of ~30 plugins we routinely use
Overall Satisfaction with WordPress
We use WordPress as our primary platform for new client sites. Our bundle consists of probably the most respected of the premium WordPress theme frameworks, custom graphics from our design department, a set menu of plugins, custom programming to make certain features sing, and responsive styles baked in by default. Our development stack allows us to bring client sites to life in a week or two at a competitive price point, while delivering a decent feature set with a totally custom design.
- WordPress can handle a broad array of content-centric sites from static sites, to a blog, to a mixed media site, to a content heavy site like TechCrunch.
- Most mainstream site scenarios can be built using WordPress, up to the point where a high I/O or real-time webapp needed instead.
- High I/O or real-time webapps.
- High concurrent user sites. The server environment would need to be tuned to handle this, but the same can be said for most development platforms out there.
- Wordpress as a framework or other MVC-style sites, the tools are still in their infancy.
- WordPress' core is slowly being refactored from procedural to OOO-based code.
- Our customers' ROI has been excellent. The local businesses we serve are able to be found by the business name and generally rank well for a variety of local search terms. We are also able to build out landing pages quickly and easily and then marry them to a variety of direct mail, social media, and PPC campaigns.
My CMS journey started with Drupal, then Joomla, then moved on to WordPress. With Drupal I felt like it was built by software engineers for other software engineers. Its dashboard was cumbersome and felt needlessly complex. Joomla's dashboard on the other hand, felt like a scattered mess of organized chaos. Our company took on a few Joomla clients the past year and even with familiarity, we spent an inordinate amount of time hunting and pecking through various pockets of content to find where to make changes. Not to start a flame war, but if anyone reading this thinks that Joomla's dashboard is in any way superior to WordPress, I can assure you that it's due to a lack of familiarity, a state of denial, or an unwillingness to consider what the other camp has to offer.
Dashboards aside, all three are modern CMSes with comparable media abilities, themes, third-party integrations, plugins, custom post types, etc.
Dashboards aside, all three are modern CMSes with comparable media abilities, themes, third-party integrations, plugins, custom post types, etc.