WordPress, yes but no
March 07, 2025

WordPress, yes but no

Daniel Cetina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with WordPress

We used it to create our webiste. It was hard, really complicated to use, to include plugins, if you add one, the other one breaks, really hard to maintain, to organize and make it work. Not a very friendly system if you don;t have the proper experience. If you are not trined in every single plugin they have, you need to hire an expert and it will cost more money.

Pros

  • Advertising
  • Influencers offers

Cons

  • Have their own training courses
  • Being open makes it easy to get confused
  • Communication between plugins always has space to improve
  • We ended up spending more, switching to a more firendly platform to build the site in house
  • After spending a few hundreds on WordPress, plug ins and more, we ended up swithching because to put everything together was really hard
  • Bounce rate was always high. It was impossible to lower those numbers
Is not what we thought it was going to be. We ended up switching because WordPress is hard to put together as a puzzle. If you don't find the right plugins, and if those plugins you choose don't match other necessary plugins, your site is going to fail, no matter what you do. You definitely need a website developer or a WordPress expert to explain what the company needs and have that person build everything in a proper way. At the end, the money you saved at the beginning on the "Build it yourself", you end up spending more on a developer and the time you spent trying to build it in house.
To work with WordPress your company needs a developer, no matter what. Unless you have the experienced developer in house, you will need one. Squarespace is superfriendly and easy to work. Has all the features for a simple and clean website. WordPress lacks this part.

Do you think WordPress delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with WordPress's feature set?

No

Did WordPress live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of WordPress go as expected?

No

Would you buy WordPress again?

No

You need a web developer to create a proper website using WordPress. Is not that friendly for companies without experience to "build your own" website. It's easy to access, to set an account, to buy a domain and hosting, but to create and build the website, is not that simple.

WordPress Feature Ratings

5.9
WYSIWYG editor
4
Code quality / cleanliness
7
Admin section
5
Page templates
8
Library of website themes
8
Mobile optimization / responsive design
4
Publishing workflow
5
Form generator
6
4.4
Content taxonomy
2
SEO support
3
Bulk management
3
Availability / breadth of extensions
8
Community / comment management
6
6.5
API
8
Internationalization / multi-language
5
8.0
Role-based user permissions
8
CMS programming language or framework ()
Not Rated

Using WordPress

1 - Just me, I'm in charge of marketing and ads. I'm the decision maker about which products do we use for all realted to online presence of the company. I created websites before, using different tools, like GoDaddy or Shopify. This time I made the decision of using WordPress and I regret that
1 - I don't want to sound repetitive, but as I responded before. I'm the person in charge of that in the company.
  • Online presence
  • Lead generation
  • Job applications
  • Create forms
  • Post job offers
  • Not interested
The complications we have and the lack of support. Every plugin has a differente team of support in charge and make one plugin work with the other one always affects the website performance. It's a thousand times better to have only one provider with all functionalities included unless you are an expert web developer or have a team dedicated to it

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