WordPress.com Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

We use wordpress to update and publish our website. It is the very formation for our company.

Nothing is easier to not dislike than the salesforce platform. It is great.

We are solving a major problem of not having a website by using Wordpress to make our website. It benefits us by making our business accessible on the world wide web!

I like that Wordpress has a good reputation, and it makes us look like thoughtful editors for using it. Our peers use WordPress--so do sites like People and Entertainment Weekly. You can also find our other work via our profiles, so it shows that we really are experts in our field.

The site is too difficult to design and very expensive (compared to its competitors). I know code, but the site makes it so that you have to have a Masters and a premium account to make your site look professional--and we ARE professionals! It was such a hassle to get going that in the end, we refuse to use anything else because of the exorbitant labor pulling everything together.

We have a Facebook page that automatically posts for us, so we get more readers, which looks good professionally.

I like that it's similar to wordpress.org as in, if you blog using WordPress normally, building a WordPress site is very similar. It's generally user-friendly and easy to find solutions to problems.

Even if it's easy to find a solution, it doesn't mean the solution is easy. I absolutely hate the fact that I cannot change the size of font when editing (I can use headings or paragraph, that's it. It might be our template, but I'm not changing our website template to find out...). You have to manually write the code for each line of text. It's so tedious (I know how to write code and it's dumb that you have to do this on a wordpress site). That's my biggest issue. And if you change the font size manually, you also have to change the line spacing because it gets very messed up. Also, changing the size of the font somehow makes it so that the site isn't mobile friendly - real fun stuff.... All in all, the site is not the greatest. Wix was much more user-friendly but couldn't do everything we needed.

We needed a better website than we had. Now, we are moving on from wordpress..

There is seemingly a vast opportunity to build many different types of site through Wordpress.com. The sites are mobile responsive and there are a lot of online tutorials to help you learn how to troubleshoot any problems.

There is a huge learning curve for nondevelopers. While there is a lot of opportunity to create custom sites, it is extremely difficult to learn how to use the features of Wordpress.com. There are no drag and drop features, so you are essentially trying to design a site through an admin panel, without directly seeing the changes you are making - which makes even the smallest updates very time consuming. If you are looking for anything other than the bare bones of a site, it will take you time to learn how to use Wordpress.com.

We have made a few basic client sites using WordPress.com. We were able to build a cookie cutter site within a few days. We used a free template, so it was pretty inexpensive.

I like the ability to keep up with content editing and design all in one place.

It is not very user friendly for someone who has never built websites before.

We have a brand new website that looks great and is easy to update.

I like that i do not have to know how to do much HTML Coding.

The layout is sometimes hard to get a hang of.

We needed a website and a place to host our blogs so we used it through Wordpress

There are many options in terms of themes, plugins, and customization.

Working with third-parties is a crapshoot. Sometimes the sellers go out of business, and now your $40 theme won't have updates, making it unreliable in the future. Plus, you never know how easy/workable a theme is until you start playing with it. The Wordpress forums can be helpful if you have a common problem, but you're really left on your own or with the seller when you need to troubleshoot. I recommend having a coder, or at least having a team member who can read code, in order to minimize headaches.

We can put a whole website up in a matter of weeks with a small team.

There are a lot of templates available on WordPress.

It's not always super user friendly and requires some HTML/CSS skills.

I've created portfolio landing pages- inexpensive to buy the domain name.

I liked the different options that were available. From drop downs to different content

I didn't like the difficulty of design when putting different items place it always seemed to displace something

We utilized Wordpress as a blogging site to get information about upcoming events that's were going on. It allowed for a great blogging platform

Once the site is set up it's pretty easy to update.

You have to purchase themes or understand how to code a website.

I don't think we're solving any business "problems" using WordPress. We get traffic to our website using WordPress.

When I first used the Free version in college it was actually pretty simple and straight forward to use. For someone who has never built a blog before it was straightforard

I mean the options for the free version are limited, but that is to be expected and when it comes to wanting to customizing it can become complicated if you are not familiar with coding.

I was using to promote the business and found once I understood the layout it was easier to get what I wanted across to the customers viewing the page.

when editing a website/webpage you can view your unsaved changes as if you were the end user browsing the website. plenty of users out there who you can converse with to resolve issues and challengers

it can we quite difficult to find the right app to do what you want correctly on the theme you are running. it can be very frustrating when trying to find a particular setting when it is buried deep somewhere not very accessible.

we use wordpress to power our website which allows customers to see our company and the services we offer. it gives us an online presence thru which people can contact us.

It's easy to use and there are multiple ways to set up things.

Not fully customizable. There are widgets, but not all work well.

Internal communication.

What I enjoyed was having the ability to create my own website.

While I was told it was user friendly I had a very difficult time. The dashboard is confusing and the site requires constant optimization.

I am attempting to design a landing page for one of our projects.

There's a wide-variety of add-ons and applications available for the WP platform. I like the wide variety of templates and styles, too.

If you're using the free service, there is no support beyond the prewritten answers to the FAQs. If you forget your password, get a new phone number or lose the authorization codes, you can forget about your website. It's frozen in time. Good luck getting someone to help you.

For a business looking to get an affordable attractive, simple, easy to update website, then this is a good place to start.

The plugins, makes life easier and as to wp limited functionalities

Knowing some programming, even a little, makes WP super frustrating to use. It's not intuitive and overwrites your custom code all the time. Definitely switching to Gitpages or Hugo, or WordPress.org

Blogging, site management

It is very narrow software- you can tell if you were really good, that this software could be good but it isn’t

The un easy way of using it it is very hard

It is useful for a blog and it is very easy to but your domains name on

I do like the different templates they have.

It is very difficult to switch between the front and back end. You have to be pretty experienced to add plug ins as well.

The benefits of it are that you can add a lot to it... you just have to know how.

Not a fan. I know I've seen some beautiful WordPress sites, but I have never been able to make on look good.

All the plugins are confusing. I feel like there are so many suggested I just use them all and who knows if they work. I'd rather add a snippet of code and really see what's going on. Not just "trust" the plugin.

I pitch Wordpress people with prettier sites from Squarespace that I manually optimize.

Great SEO features that help move a page to the top. Lots of great plugins are available to do just about anything you want.

So many menus and places to make changes and it's not always intuitive. You can waste a lot of time searching for the correct place to edit your code or customize your site.

I use wordpress to build websites for clients who really want that SEO boost. This is a very useful tool for increasing google rankings and getting found on the internet.

WordPress works easily and can be quickly learnt by even the first-time users. It's userface is simple enough and once you get the hang of it, using it can be like second nature.

The SEO tool is not as powerful as others and really needs some more work done to it so we can see what impact our keywords have already on Google or other search engines. We'd also like to see suggestions on keywords we should be using in our content.

WordPress allows us to easily distribute content on our website from many authors without the need of spending money on tutorial classes. We've been able to host a website on there with ease and gather some good analytics.

WordPress, when understood well, is a good tool for building websites and personal online portfolios. It can make sites look pretty sleek and easy to read, and has a decent amount of options to make your website distinct from others.

WordPress can be difficult to use and understand, especially for those trying to utilize for the first time. It's clunky and complicated, and not terribly intuitive.

WordPress can be difficult to train individuals under. It takes a bit of tinkering to get the hang of it, and there's generally no time to tinker in order to gain that understanding. However, it is a useful resource for site building.

It is simple to use and you can easily make it look professional

It doesn't have enough personalization tools, it is limited even the payed version

I've created a website that is about education in Brazil on it, and the client sent me to do it on the Wordpress.com with the payed version, and wanted to custom a lot of things that were able only on wordpress.org with programming.

Quickness in creating a website. It is very easy to create a website on Wordpress

having to use the .wordpress.com ending to the URL

Marketing

I get my domain name through word press, and like the price of $18 a year. I used WordPress formally for my website and blog, and liked the community feel for it at the time.

Although the platform for blogging has gotten better (I have used it to guest blog on EverAfter Romance), I find the website building platform more difficult, especially loading widgets, and styling it the way I want.

Having my own domain has been great for branding and using WordPress as a guest blogger has helped reach new readers. I have played around with it a bit, and although the formatting is better, I don't like that I have to pay extra to customize my website. (With weebly, I can use a custom format for free.)

I like the endless options available for both beginners (myself) and advanced programmers. There are so many themes and plugins available. In my opinion this is the standard.

It would be awesome if some how wordpress created a drag and drop, layout collaboration with adobe. Where you can just easily type commands with out having to know coding knowledge. One big problem I have is when random updates are made and everything goes rogue / disappears. Friendlier shopping cards would be great.

I am a graphic designer representing various client needs from services to products for sale. Wordpress is the most versatile and adaptive platform that grows with my clients.

Absolutely nothing good to say about WordPress.com.

- Bad Interface. Their user interface is the worst I've ever seen. It looks like something out of the mid-2000s. Hard to use, difficult to understand, and just all-around atrocious. - Support is horrible, there is no option to contact them via their support chat and they don't list their support email publically. Do not use. Literally, go with anyone else.

WordPress claims to make web design and building easy. They do not.

I suppose access to plug ins? But that's a double edged sword. There's not much to like, if being sincere about it. Everything that seems nice, complimentary or cool has a weird, evil doppelganger of a problem that seems pointed exactly at what you are seeking to acomplish.

Wishy washy 'help' provided by support. Blame always placed on 3rd party. If you use advanced terminology to even the superiors to the superiors no one knows what you are discussing. In ten years of on and off again service with WP, I've never been emailed back in accordance to a request for an escalation (which I'm told can only be done by phone). AVOID!!!! Get a computer from 1986 and run Dos out your garage. You'll be so much better off.

I run into at least a period of 6 months of slow down no matter what venture encounters WP, unfortunately.

There is actually nothing I like about the software

Not user friendly and requires tons of add ins to make your website work - any one of the add ins can crash and make your website crash and you will get no warning and very little support from the company

None. Everything that I do within this site I can do easy in other website editors.

I hear rave reviews about WordPress from people who love to use it as a blog. I have only ever created websites that are stores or multi-page websites. I personally don't have any positives for this site. I would not recommend WordPress to anyone who wants a fully functioning website.

I originally tried WordPress.com because a client had signed up with that site to create their website/web store. The client hired me to create said site and store. This website was not functional for the client's needs. WordPress.com has many screens you must go through to select your page. I do not feel that it is very user friendly. This site was just not usable for my client's needs and I was very dissatisfied with it as a user. I ended up switching from WordPress.com to Wix.com to complete my client's project.

I was trying to create a website/web store for a client using WordPress.com. However, this site was not user friendly and did not seem equipped to build a multi-page site with an integrated web store. I hear from many people that WordPress.com is a great resource for bloggers but I do not have experience with this personally.