WordPress - I'm Impressed!
February 06, 2018
WordPress - I'm Impressed!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with WordPress
I have used WordPress in various capacities, both in its original implementation as a blog on an otherwise larger site and to host entire sites with posts (such as products and blog posts). I have created themes for these sites to customise the appearance and features of the CMS on the front end, and have contributed to the content, so have used it as both an administrator and author.
WordPress provides a relatively easy solution to put a platform in place to create and manage content, with its large number of plugins to add functionality and features to the end product. I have found the availability of plugins exceptionally useful in filling in gaps within the original CMS, and have also found the availability of tutorials and documentation very useful in modifying the platform in-house too.
WordPress provides a relatively easy solution to put a platform in place to create and manage content, with its large number of plugins to add functionality and features to the end product. I have found the availability of plugins exceptionally useful in filling in gaps within the original CMS, and have also found the availability of tutorials and documentation very useful in modifying the platform in-house too.
- Quick to set up
- Highly customisable, especially with the regular updates the platform receives
- A large number of available plugins and themes
- Extensible and versatile
- Relatively simple to manage
- Relatively open to hacking (if not properly maintained and set up)
- Plugins can break with platform updates or clash with each other
- Can be overkill if inappropriate for your project
- Some themes are slow to load
- Excellent solutions for professionally displaying content
- Robust contact form plugins have generated leads
- Quick development on a low budget have saved cost
- elucid and glob
Relatively simpler development and admin sections in comparison with other CMS solutions I've used, I would overall recommend using WordPress if possible on a project. As there are so many plugins and themes available, I have found that WordPress sites are much easier and quicker to extend and/or modify when compared with ones based on other systems. The relative ease of managing the full stack of WordPress's scope also gives a better feeling of control over a site built on it, with just the usual concerns of security and performance, which you get with all sites and systems.