WordPress.org Reviews & Product Details

WordPress is an amazing platform that can be utilized to build many different types of products. It includes a huge community of developers and, best of all, its free!

Security issues could be improved, with the core product, but also with plugins and other third party tools used with the platform.

Building high quality websites in very little time, from content websites, to directories and even ecommerce. My company is able to deploy sites quickly and efficiently that perform with high amounts of traffic. This allows us to scale our business with lower costs and more flexibility when it comes to web development and digital marketing.

ability to upload themes and plugins, and complete control if your more technically inclined, and the overall community is wonderful.

Requires a more expensive web host, requires a good amount of technical knowledge to do simple setup, and your responsible for stopping spam

We are able to advertise more

The easy and also the range of tools. Training on the tool is also very straight forward, and we were able to sync with CoSchedule beautifully, making WP the perfect tool for us. Even add in SEO properties, sort by categories, etc. We have a large audience, and yet this simple tool is the perfect thing.

Sometimes the formatting can get a bit confusing, but I do not have extensive experience with coding or with WP. I also would wish to be able to add in new categories at a moment's notice, as opposed to just select from the permanent ones on the sidebar (although that may mess with back-end things, so I totally understand why.)

Posting content in-house onto our website (that gets shared on social media).

As a web developer, I appreciate how customizable Wordpress is. It is also user friendly, which is a huge win for my clients.

Since it is popular, you have to monitor security closely. Hackers target the platform and plugins.

I have built ~50 websites on Wordpress for a variety of clients, large and small. It is easy for them to use, and easy for me to implement.

There are so many different themes that offer a vast amount of flexibility for personal or business use. Using plugins and basic programming can make any website exactly the way you want to represent your business. Moreover, it is easy to get Google Analytics to recognize WP sites, which improves readership and attracts advertisers.

Some web hosting companies do not allow administrators do their own updates; it is more than inconvenient. While this is not an issue for WordPress itself, users should be aware of this problem and make a determination how much control they want to have on their own site(s).

I use WP.org for personal use and for business. For business purposes, we have 5 newspaper sites, we also build and maintain sites for multiple clients. Using the easy backend composer makes it easy to create successful and profitable sites.

The ability to create what our customers need and making it easy for updates without having to start from scratch on new pages.

I don't like how vulnerable it is to hacks, but with it being the most used web builder, its understandable.

Building sites that are easy to update and manage.

There is so much I love about WordPress. The massive ecosystem, extensibility, flexibility, and enormous community of people using it and sharing ideas. While other platforms will tout "newer" or "cutting edge" technology, that usually means they're more complicated or more likely to break (or not work as expected). There are other solutions that may be "easier" to get started, but ultimately that means you're giving up significant control over what you can do in the long run.

I do think some of the underlying technology needs updating, but I fully understand the difficulty in updating this technology when it's so widespread and affects so many people.

Website design, development, and maintenance. Web app design, development, and maintenance. WordPress is everything for our digital home base.

Once you get the hang of the basics, Wordpress will become your go-to. There are so many different templates, free and paid, and a lot of regularly updated plugins to choose from so you don't have to write all of your needed integrations yourself.

It's performance intensive. You will have trouble running it well on a basic hosting package.

I use Wordpress.org in all of my clients' sites. It's made web design easier and cheaper for my clients.

So simplistic and easy to learn to use. Wordpress has so many options to make your website amazing and detailed. I've used others in the past and they don't compare at all. All the options on the left side are easy to navigate. My Site is great— the page editor is beautiful and it’s simple to understand. Pages and blog posts are created using a WYSIWYG editor (so not a drag-and-drop visual interface, which many users may prefer). Fortunately the WYSIWYG editor is very nicely done.

Teaching myself is a slower process, but overall easy to catch on. The only issues I really have is learning what each thing does and how it effects my site. But overall its self explanatory. My Site is really simple. As soon as you to use some of the advanced features— for example create a store or add a poll— you have swap over to the WP Admin

Wordpress helps my business run smoothly, detailed options to make a better site. Wordpress has so many options to make your website amazing and detailed. I've used others in the past and they don't compare at all. You can lose a lot of time answering questions by phone. And if you hear many of the same questions every day, there’s an opportunity. You can display those questions–and your answers–on your website using a WordPress FAQ (frequently asked questions) plugin. The HTML5 Responsive FAQ plugin allows you to create groups of FAQs, sort them by category, and customize the look and feel. This will provide a useful resource for your customers, help bring more traffic to your site, and get you off the phone.

I have been blogging for many years now and one of the greatest platforms I have used is WordPress. I like the fact that there are many themes and plugins available for me to use for my blog. Being able to choose a nice theme for your Website or blog provides a great deal of satisfaction. The backend is user-friendly even for non-tech people.

Finding the right theme that matches your expectations can be tumultuous. I have switched themes many times before zeroing in on the right one.

As a business owner, I need to increase my visibility on the Internet. I use my blog powered by WordPress to that effect. I am able to publish more articles, which helps me in terms attracting more readers and improving my blog's search engine optimization (SEO).

Easy to use. Has a lot of options and downloads availability

Dislike that different windows open every time you select something different to customize

Website

I love the ease of use for writing and the ease of the customizer tool.

PHP is a very hard to decipher when one doesn't have a firm grip on HTML/CSS

I'm developing websites and have realized that some themes are more customizable than others.

The best part of Wordpress is the flexibility and resources out there for you to use. You really can build any site you want with whatever skill level you have.

The pro is also a con because there are so many resources out there you'll run into a lot of bad add-ons or templates that are difficult to use. As long as you research what add-ons are best and what templates fit your needs you should be fine.

Wordpress's CMS is super easy to use. So when other people who aren't developers use it, it's easy to pick up.

Is easy to use And is a great platform for professionals

It took me a while to understand it. It's hard understanding how to change small things since I am not a pro at coding

I guess I'm learning the small details of CSS

Wordpress is a very good framework for website with a communication purpose. If several contributors have to manage content learning wordpress is very simple.

There is an enormous catalog of plugins and themes. You have to pay attention of the quality when you chose plugins and themes for the maintenance and security of your website.

Corporate website, intranet website.