Incredibly flexible website builder with lots of free and paid addons
June 20, 2021
Incredibly flexible website builder with lots of free and paid addons
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with WordPress
We use WordPress as our website platform for a range of different websites that we use in our business. We have our main business website with our marketing and information etc, then we also run an eCommerce site and 3 different membership portals for delivering online training. WordPress allows us to flexibly create these sites, to control membership logins, to charge for individual purchases or recurring memberships, and to allow various members of our team and admin staff to add and update pages inside our membership portals.
- WordPress is so popular that it has thousands of addons, creating huge flexibility to handle almost any need you can imagine
- WordPress can be set up to allow users at various levels to access or edit different pages or areas within the site. This is perfect for membership sites.
- WordPress has thousands of different visual themes and huge flexibility within the design system so that it can look and feel the way we want our brand to be represented.
- WordPress has a huge array of plugins and visual themes available, which makes it super powerful but also, unfortunately, means it is sometimes difficult to know the best or easiest way to accomplish a specific goal.
- When editing a site, the default built-in editor is clunky to use, so we always install one of the freely available "visual editor" plugins that helps with page layout and editing.
- The "plain" wordpress that is first installed is quite basic and it needs plugins and themes to make it work better. These are readily available but if you've never used them before it can be difficult to set these up.
- Delivering online training via a membership web portal is one of our main business activities, so our website is integral for making that work.
- We also sell some products via e-commerce directly online.
- Wordpress itself is free but requires a hosting service, and we also use some paid plugins, so we are paying a few hundred dollars each month for all our web services related to Wordpress. As a vital part of our marketing AND service delivery, the ROI cannot be underestimated.
I prefer Wordpress because it is open source and has a huge community of users and developers. So it is incredibly flexible already because of the plugins available, and it can be further customized to any extent by readily available developer talent.
Do you think WordPress delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with WordPress's feature set?
Yes
Did WordPress live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of WordPress go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy WordPress again?
Yes