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WordPress.org Reviews & Product Details

WordPress.org Overview
What is WordPress.org?

WordPress is arguably the most popular open-source, cloud-based content management system based on PHP and MySQL designed to help small to large businesses create, manage and publish content for websites. The customizable solution allows enterprises to use plugins, widgets, and themes to simplify web creation and design. Top features allow users to upload and store multimedia content, auto-save progress, and restore critical data.

Company Automattic
Year founded 2005
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Headquarters Remote
Social Media
Managed by:
Axel Grubba
Founder
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WordPress.org Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
OSS
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Linux, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
WordPress.org Pros and Cons
Pros
  • WordPress.org is free!
  • There are thousands of themes, plugins, and widgets to choose from
  • You have complete control over the functionality and aesthetic of your website. 
  • There’s an active community with plenty of self-help guides and documentation available online.
  • WordPress.org boasts powerful blogging features and SEO functionality.
Cons
  • At least with older versions of WordPress, the design editor comes with a steeper learning curve.
  • With any open-source software, you need to find your own hosting, which can seem daunting at first if you’re new to website creation. 
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WordPress.org Features
API Access
Asset Management
Collaboration Tools
Content Analytics
Content Archiving
Content Migration
Content Personalization
Content Preview
Content Scheduling
Customer Support
Customizable Templates
Drag and Drop Interface
E-Commerce Integration
Form Builder
GDPR Compliance
Inline Editing
Media Library
Mobile Editing
Multilingual Support
Plugins and Extensions
Responsive Design
SEO Management
Search Functionality
Social Media Integration
Tagging and Categorization
Template Management
User Roles and Permissions
Version Control
WYSIWYG Editor
Workflow Management
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Last updated: July 26, 2024
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8,637 WordPress.org Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
S M A. avatar
S M A.
It Manager
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"WordPress.org"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress.org change the thinking of the website developers. It's the most used software, theme, plugin on the Internet. With WordPress.org support a child can make a site too.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

In WordPress.org nothing to dislike. Every single option are usable.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's just changed the thinking of website build. WordPress.org saved time, give user's as many options as they want.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Amanda R. avatar
Amanda R.
Esl Teacher
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"Get started quickly on your blog with Wordpress."
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Wordpress is very user friendly. With just a little bit of time invested in learning the dashboard anyone can get started on their blog or website quickly.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Sometimes the ability to self code can be a little complex due to the user friendliness of the platform.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm able to have a clear vision for my website and build it out piece by piece because of the guidance offered in the dashboard.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Narayana P. avatar
Narayana P.
Operations Team Lead
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"My first website online"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

They have all the features for creating a simple website with minimal effort

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

I couldn't find anything to dislike about wordpress

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating website Lots of designs to choose from Easier interface Good storage Quick support

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 12, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Tejas R. avatar
Tejas R.
Founder
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"Best CMS Ever. I use it everyday."
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The best part about WordPress CMS is that it is so easy to use. For a No-coder myself, this is a serious boon. I have done multiple side projects with WordPress. If there was no WordPress, I don't know where I would be.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

The one thing I would have liked to have is creating mini saas products with WordPress. I know WP is more inclined towards content based system, but there can be serious improvements with regards to micro content saas too. I wish WP works towards it.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been publishing blogs, creating affiliate sites, landing pages with Wordpress. It is one of the best and easy to use CMS so far.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 04, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Travis B.
Admin
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"WordPress.org is a great place to learn how to set up your WordPress website"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Being able to find most answers to questions about setting up a website, or theme, in one online app. Very handy! You can find themes, plugins, and chat with other memebers, who can guide and help you in setting up your website, as well as resolve any issues you may be experiencing.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Nothing to dislike - it's a very helpful site.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

WordPress.org makes it easy to find most questions answered, in one place. It also provides a place for others who are using WordPress to discuss options and help each other resolve programming or CMS issues.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 04, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Josef C.
Automation Director
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"Content Management Beyond Blogs"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Though the initial focus of WordPress was as a blog publishing platform, the thriving third-party and community-built plugins and extensions have long since established it as a full-fledged content management system capable of handling endless varieties of website configurations. From simple brochure sites extolling the virtues of a single product or brand to e-commerce marketplaces built with WooCommerce and Shopify, WordPress offers web developers a standardized management interface with familiar controls and (for the most part) intuitive components regardless of the content being managed.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

With abundance often comes overabundance. The proliferation of plugins, themes, and even whole frameworks, while impressive, is also the biggest pitfall. Adopting a theme framework like Genesis or Elementor for use across multiple sites can be a huge timesaver for a designer, but the moment your go-to theme or plugin ceases development and begins to grow stale in the WordPress marketplace, finding a suitable replacement and incorporating it throughout an existing portfolio of sites can become daunting. WordPress and its more prominent plugin and theme developers have helped by allowing automatic updates and refining the plugin and child theme management concepts, but one outdated plugin used across several sites is all it takes to expose security vulnerabilities that can compromise client data. Also, with so many options for achieving the same results, vetting a single plugin or deciding on an all-inclusive package can be overwhelming when starting from scratch or collaborating with others.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have improved both my production time and maintenance processes significantly by using WordPress to build client websites. With a multisite server running numerous client websites, I can share plugins and themes (via child themes) across several sites and only have to update each theme or plugin once at the multisite level. It also offers the ability to clone an existing subsite into a new one, so I can start a new client's design based on an already tweaked and polished site that I have fully vetted. That way I only have stylistic and content changes to address, without having to worry about whether the responsive mobile navigation is going to show up correctly or if the GDPR popup plugin will work as advertised.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 03, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Daniel K.
Web Developer
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"Wordpress Gets Rid of Handholding"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

I like being able to create/design/develop a beautiful responsive website that works for my clients AND that I'm easily able to teach the clients themselves how to use and edit going forward so I don't need to handhold forever.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Some of the new web languages coming out today and static site generators are loading a LOT faster than Wordpress sites do. So I guess I dislike the large files and load times of many Wordpress elements.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've completely solved the problem of having to hold my clients' hands after I launch their site. With just an hour or two of video-recorded training, they know how to edit their content, media, and users with ease.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 29, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Er.Maheish K.
Front End Developer
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"WordPress Review"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

User friendly interface, easy to customise, a lot of ready to use plugins and many more

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

I created many websites in WordPress. Nothing to dislike.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating website's in WordPress for small businesses.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 29, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Candy R.
Junior Preacher & Content Creator
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"Useful for managing content of the website"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

It is easy to create and manage the content of the website with much security, sharing content for growth, you can simply select a theme and customize the website freely

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

WordPress plugins sometimes come with viruses and malware that destruct websites and expose them to hackers who steal data and compromise the website if good security precautions are not followed

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am creating content every day for my website and my business in WordPress, sharing and boosting content which has made me make sales for my business products and services

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 29, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Megan B.
Operations Manager
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"Rebranded our website and love Wordpress"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is very intuitive and easy to nafivage for even the intermediate tech user. The finished product is fantastic.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Seems to sometimes have more functions than we need, but are paying for.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some items not saving when we create them, but we worked with tech support and they solved the problem.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dec 28, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Muhammad Ahmed B.
Full Stack Developer
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"Amazing Website Builder for Beginners"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The most I like about Wordpress is the drag and drop feature and adding plugins due to which I don't need any developer to build my website.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Custom Coding is difficult in Wordpress so it is one of the major disadvantages.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting and Domain are cheap for Wordpress so I like this.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 27, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Michael K.
Web Designer
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"WordPress is an excellent platform for simple or complex websites"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is an excellent platform for creating websites. The foundation of it is free, making it an amazing value. You get a user-friendly, powerful platform that accommodates virtually any need. A lot of the features you need can be added for free. If you need more, it's easy to find high-quality, affordable products. WordPress doesn't require coding skills - saving its users time and money by editing their own content without waiting on developers. The team behind WordPress is constantly making improvements. And because it's a) open source, and b) used all over the world, development and features reflect a wide base of users.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

1. Mid-way through 2021, the user experience for creating content is still a work in progress. WordPress has been making substantial progess toward ease-of-use, and will likely get quite good in the next year, but it still is a bit unintuitive. 2. One of the advantages is also a disadvantage. In WordPress, features are added with small packages of software "plugins," and themes. The market of available plugins and themes is enormous. New users, who don't understand how to determine junk vs. quality, can easily pick a poor solution.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

My personal love is how easy it is to create excellent websites for even the smallest business. I had someone comment that his new website allowed him to finally "complete with the big box stores." And this is accurate - high quality, easy to use websites are within most small business budgets.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 21, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Nalin A. avatar
Nalin A.
Software Engineer
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"My Experience With Wordpress.org"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is a CMS which is helped to build web applications. It is completely free and open source. WordPress provides a lot of facilities to build a web site without coding knowldge.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

WordPress built-in theme and plugins are not supported for every type of web application. For that, you need to use 3rd party plugin and Thems. you need to pay for them.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I wanted to build but coding knowledge is required for many frameworks. but Using WordPress I could build a website with Zero coding knowledge. WordPress provides easy SEO solution also.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 19, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Juliana S.
Ecommerce Consultant
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"The best CMS in the world"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The ease of installing predesigned template and adapting them to the content to be used, great to be able to install add-ons to facilitate connection with social networks and advertising, for example, Facebook ADS pixel and Google ads, they are integrated wonderfully, as well as integration with WooCommerce and for online stores, this combined with third-party add-ons to make websites even more impressive, not leaving behind their integration with blogs and the ease of construction.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

The administrator panel is somewhat confusing at first you must get used to its use and locate each of the tools, the plugins in some cases take too long or it brings a free tool to optimize the load cache, and a tool to convert images from formats heavy formats such as JPG or PNG in more compressed formats and faster loading such as web.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

The speed to build fast and simple landing pages is a great advantage for the advertising that the company uses, in conjunction with third-party plugins for seo inspection and excellent search engine positioning. The WordPress code is very easy to edit, so I have had the opportunity to create blogs, informational pages or virtual stores in very short periods of time, increasing my productivity and increasing my income as a programmer.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 18, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Chamal Ayesh W. avatar
Chamal Ayesh W.
Software Engineer
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"Build your website without coding"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The WordPress is the world best and open source framwork for content management. Even user with no technical knowledge can make his own website with registration, login, shopping cart and payments.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

WordPress uses PHP as its scripting language makes it somewhat slow. But using PHP-FPM, you can make it fast. WordPress has a lot of third-party plug-ins, but some of them are not good as WordPress itself.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

For all our website development, we are using WordPress as the framework. It is effortless to learn. Since the framework is free, we could save thousands of dollars for the development.

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