WordPress.org Reviews & Product Details

Easy installation, very flexible and customizable. A lot of ressources out there to help you out. You can be a newbie or a veteran coder and still be able to create a nice website and e-commerce.

Too many theme or plugin wannabe developper.

We created a fully functionnal e-commerce website without the need to hire an expansive creative agency to do it. It saved us a lot or money in the end.

Wordpress can be as simple or as complexe as you want. It adapts to your needs, the most simples to the most complexes

Too many updates make WP a littly bit time consuming to maintain on a professional level.

Websites for customers

WordPress is very user-friendly. I don't need to know anything about html coding to update our company's website with relevant content. User interface is easy to navigate and fairly intuitive. I can even make updates from my mobile phone. Password-protected page feature is great for allowing access to certain content (i.e., customer log-in pages). I also use WordPress to manage my personal blog site after having such a good experience with it at work. Love that it is web-based and can be accessed from anywhere.

Plug-in options can be overwhelming. Too many plug-ins from third-parties offer little to no additional functionality (just a change to the user interface). Sidebar menu could be a bit easier to navigate (add hover over text, etc.). I sometimes have to hunt for a feature in various areas before I find it (such as updating menu bars, sidebars, and the like).

We use WordPress to manage our company's website. We hired a company to design the "look and feel" of our site and they have since handed the content management over to me. With WordPress, I find it very easy to update pages, create new ones, change menus, add photo galleries, etc. With minimal time and effort, I've learned to quickly navigate WordPress. It's a huge time-saver for someone like me with no coding experience.

The interface is easy to use, update, and post from anywhere in the world.

Some of the formatting can be a bit boring or generic and can sometimes look cheap.

Establishing an online presence and persona for a media company. The benefits are utilizing wordpress to see how it works for larger projects and being able to track other individuals' blogs and comments.

That it was so easy to navigate. I had more control over my own content and how it looked.

No complaints so far. Everything has been great.

I feel like I have more control over the content I want to share

Easy installation, easy to organize posts and categories. Plenty of free plug-ins, and if you need it for e-commerce, you can use woo commerce.

The only draw back is that if your site is very big, then it won't accommodate very well. There is a breaking point.

Simple blog and recipe blog. It's easier to keep the e-commerce platform and blog separate. WordPress is easy to manage.

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.

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 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.

Wordpress is the best way to customize your website.

Some of the plugins are finicky, but overall the experience is great.

None currently.

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

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.

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 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).

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.

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.