Business owner perspective on WordPress
July 29, 2015

Business owner perspective on WordPress

Jake Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

4

Overall Satisfaction with WordPress

WordPress is used as a framework for building my clients websites.
  • A Solid Framework.
  • Many Plugins Available.
  • Community Support.
  • Free.
  • Security can be an issue as it's a large target.
  • More CMS features such as making custom post types easier.
  • Adding a visual editor would be a benefit.
  • WordPress is free so ROI is pretty high, I think the math works out as infinite ROI.
  • WordPress has been my go to for building client sites and between their features and me becoming familiar with it, I have saved a lot of time not writing a website from scratch.
  • WordPress security issues have affected a few of my clients and then I feel obligated to fix the problems. That is my biggest pain point with WordPress today.
ExpressionEngine 2 is the main other CMS I have used and I really like it. WordPress wins over it because it has a cost of 200 dollars. I very much dislike Joomla and Drupal - not even options in my book. I have been interested in flat file CMSs like Kirby but haven't used them for projects yet.
For websites with a variety of content types I might use something like ExpressionEngine 2 vs. WordPress.

WordPress Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
7
Code quality / cleanliness
6
Admin section
6
Page templates
7
Library of website themes
10
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8
Publishing workflow
7
Form generator
5
Content taxonomy
8
SEO support
7
Bulk management
5
Availability / breadth of extensions
10
Community / comment management
8
API
7
Internationalization / multi-language
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
4