Beginner's Guide to WordPress
December 11, 2018
Beginner's Guide to WordPress
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with WordPress
WordPress is being used to manage the State College of Florida Foundation website. The Foundation started using WordPress about 3 years ago when a new website was developed. The website allows the Foundation to provide constant communication to potential students and donors.
- From a user perspective, WordPress is pretty user friendly and intuitive. I had no website experience before using WordPress and was able to quickly teach myself how to use WordPress.
- I am impressed with the amount of customization WordPress provides and the options you have to make your website unique.
- My organization pays for WP Live support and I find them to be extremely courteous and helpful.
- The main issue I have run into is the theme my organization chose is no longer being updated, so it has decreased the functionality of the website in general. Being new to website management, I had no idea this was a possibility, so conveying that more clearly would have been helpful for me.
- At times, there is a significant delay between when I make changes on the back end and when those changes take effect on the front end of the site, so reducing that lag time would be great.
- Being able to reach more donors has provided a positive ROI for my organization.
- The only recurring negative I have experienced is the site being extremely slow to load from time to time. Both WordPress and BlueHost blame each other when this happens and I have found it difficult to fix the issue in a timely manner.
WordPress is the only website management tool I have used.