Wordpress - a great choice for your next website
February 21, 2014
Wordpress - a great choice for your next website
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
3.8.1
Overall Satisfaction
We have been using Wordpress to deploy our website along with websites for clients.
Wordpress allows us to easily build amazing websites. We are able to use all the functions and hooks it has built in to create a great end user experience. Along with making a site that is easy for the user to navigation and use, it allows us to manage the content easily. We regularly build sites that have a wide variety of functions such as automatic country detection and then load custom content for that country.
Using the builtin functionalities we are able to create custom edit screens for our clients so that they can easily add a wide variety of content such as jobs, training events, events, news blogs and anything else that the client requires.
The real beauty about Wordpress is that when we get a scope/brief from a client, we are not thinking about how can Wordpress do this, as we know it can do almost anything you throw at it. We therefore take time in planning what exactly the client requires from Wordpress, be it the actual content editor and the options available for each content type or the frontend theme that the end user sees.
Wordpress allows us to easily build amazing websites. We are able to use all the functions and hooks it has built in to create a great end user experience. Along with making a site that is easy for the user to navigation and use, it allows us to manage the content easily. We regularly build sites that have a wide variety of functions such as automatic country detection and then load custom content for that country.
Using the builtin functionalities we are able to create custom edit screens for our clients so that they can easily add a wide variety of content such as jobs, training events, events, news blogs and anything else that the client requires.
The real beauty about Wordpress is that when we get a scope/brief from a client, we are not thinking about how can Wordpress do this, as we know it can do almost anything you throw at it. We therefore take time in planning what exactly the client requires from Wordpress, be it the actual content editor and the options available for each content type or the frontend theme that the end user sees.
- Easily create and manage different types of content.
- Security is really well maintained
- Theming is really simple and you can on with what really matters without having to work out a difficult theming framework
- Reordering pages out of the box. You can reorder pages using the order attribute of pages and posts, but having a drag and drop functionality would be a great bonus.
- Increased employee engagement with our website as they are able to login and easily manage their content and also add new content
- Magento,Joomla
The flexibility of Wordpress is just excellent. You can throw anything at it and it will do the job. If you can dream it, you can build it with Wordpress.
Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - Depending on the size of site and client requirements we can phase the development to launch features timely and fully functional.
Change management was minimal
- Getting all the content out from old the old content management system can be cumbersome
Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No - Although Wordpress as a company do not provide support there are companies out there that do have Wordpress support contracts. We currently support our own Wordpress installations and deal with client requests inhouse.
Usability
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Editing is just so easy
- Adding content types is a breeze
- Customising your Wordpress site to do anything is possible with the right developer.
- Reordering pages can be a pain without a plugin if you have a lot of pages/posts
Yes, but I don't use it