WordPress.org Reviews & Product Details

With no coding experience, Wordpress makes it possible to create a website using a template design and manage content additions. For someone who's not proficient in coding, or who has literally no coding experience, this can be good. I think Wordpress is great for what it is: a way to make a website without having too much worry about coding, and a way to allow business owners to add content to their blogs. However, I think in terms of long-term: hard-coding + having a basic IT/web team is best.

You need to constantly update it, otherwise, you're susceptible to security issues. I know two Wordpress sites that have recently gotten hacked. But then the issue is, if you update, sometimes plugins aren't compatible anymore and you can break parts of your site. It's a constant back and forth. Another irritating issue is that how to find certain parts of the site or certain functions constantly changes, depending on how the web developer built it. Though that can sort of happen on hard-coded websites, it's not quite the same. You can have 10 different Wordpress websites and the way to edit some part of changes for each one. Home page is in Pages, or home page is only editable in Appearance > Editor, etc. The fact that there are many default settings that aren't ideal for SEO is also a setback. For instance, Wordpress by default will create pages that result in many duplicate content. Such as a /tags/, /categories/ etc. with duplicative content. I've taken on sites where they had a /tag/ page ranking instead of the actual page. And though that's due to the lack-of-SEO knowledge from the prior web team, if that site had been hard-coded instead, that might not have happened. SEO is so much about getting every possible factor as close to perfection as possible, and there's a lot you need to know about what Wordpress does in order to make sure you're not screwing up some SEO factor. And the way it's coded will often auto-pull certain things to other parts (like the name of the page determines the link in the menu, etc.). Though all this is changeable, it can be very frustrating figuring out how to change all these little things. It's also a lot slower than using a basic code editing tool, such as Coda. Making a quick content change in Coda is super fast. In Wordpress, it involves multiple clicks, waiting each time for something to load, again and again. Takes longer to do simple tasks.

Ability to add content easily without coding extensive coding training. Ability for clients to add content to blogs themselves.

I like that Wordpress gives my team a way to edit our website ourselves and curate our content.

While Wordpress is great in that it allows us to cut out a "middle man", it is far from intuitive. It's easy to get lost in the interface and only one person can edit a page at a time.

We're fulfilling our need for an online presence and effectively showcasing the work of our very accomplished clients. We've noticed a large uptick in our interaction with readers, who now frequently contact us through the "contact form" we've set up.

Wordpress has been established pretty much for the longest amount of time as far as website builders go. For people who are extremely HTML savvy, Wordpress shouldn't scare them too badly.

Everything has the tendency to break, extremely quickly. We had a Wordpress site for over ten years, and so many other website builders nowadays have much better capabilities.

We needed a platform to sell our books at our nonprofit press. For over ten years, we had struggles and constantly had to update and figure out plugins, and we needed to switch from it. So we switched to Squarespace and we are so much more efficient and better because of it.

Relatively easy to manage and update in comparison to old school code-only websites.

Let me count the ways... 1. It breaks... a lot. Especially plugins which are unavoidable. Also the amount of plugins needed to have a decent site... 2. It is not easy to edit or create new pages unless you are already very familiar. Not for beginners or non-professionals.

Wordpress allows you to create a website...that's about it. In a world where things like Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, etc. exist if you are trying to DIY it, Wordpress is not the solution. If you are a professional or company, there are even better platforms.

The interface is sleek and modern. At first glance it seems like it would be easy to use, but this is only true if you use a template. There are many templates to choose from, however.

WordPress is not very customizable, and it is hard to create nice websites because so many of the templates are subpar. The ones that are nice you end up realizing don't fit your needs exactly the way you thought they would. It is frustrating to use. Don't let the option to adapt your own HTML fool you. It doesn't interact well with background code and its hard to identify problems. It takes forever to setup and forever to edit anything. Don't plan to do anything marginally complex.

We used WordPress to design and maintain our website. We are able to reach more customers and increase familiarity with our products by having the website.

-With no desire to customize anything you can write a blog -Most hosting platforms have support for the installation natively -There's a ton of themes you can buy and implement when you get fed up trying to get anything custom working

-The difference between .org and .com is not very clear nor is there a need for two different but almost the same solutions -Upkeep is a constant battle especially the more clients you onboard -The interface gets filled with bloat from any add-ons you have faster than Internet Explorer Search Bars -Incredibly unfriendly to designers -Not exactly any better for coders -No actual support outside of community users forums -Lack of real training courses -Lots of misinformation and half learned tips

I can't say there's been benefit other than physically getting their site online. There are better platforms to accomplish this though.

I don't like much about Wordpress. If you're hosting a very basic blog it is great for that - post something with a title and some paragraphs and you're good to go.

Wordpress makes it unnecessarily complicated for any normal individual to use their product. The UI is very outdated and the UX is terrible in many ways. As a designer, it shocks me knowing the amount of businesses who use Wordpress to host their site. You have to use a plugin for pretty much ANYTHING you want to do in order to make a functioning website because Wordpress is built for extremely basic blogs and that's it. You also have to use a separate site builder to design pages if you want to customize the templates, which are often glitchy and hard to use. The templates are mostly outdated and very limited. In fact, the entire site structure is very limiting. Things are in weird places navigationally, which just sets anyone up for failure.

I've noticed many businesses use Wordpress to host their site because it is seemingly the easiest thing to do, and they are given support if they run into problems. You don't have to code a site from scratch and can (somewhat) easily manage it in the future if you have a simple template. However, I've noticed

I can't say I really liked much about WordPress. I thought I could learn, but there just wasn't enough helpful information for me to figure out the software.

I dislike how complicated it is to get the site actually live on the internet. Needless to say, I almost completely lost everything I did to my website, and then had to contact customer support and even then, I had to jimmy rig it. I don't understand why anyone would really want to do all the back work to get their website running. I want my website to be customizable, but also streamlined to make it easy to use.

I haven't solved any problems with WordPress. I had to change programs because that was just way to complex for me.

I did not like WordPress, it was very time consuming and difficult to understand or learn. There was minimal assistance and minimal information online. I almost ended up deleting everything I had spent time working on by accident because it was so hard to get my site live on the internet. Not happy.

I do not like how complicated it is to get the site actually live on the internet. I do not understand why anyone would really want to do all the back work to get their website running.

I will not be solving any business problems using WordPress any time soon. When using it, my problems became worse.

When you have some serious WordPress knowledge, there are so many possibilities.

WordPress is needlessly complicated. It helps tremendously to know html and css but even still their plugin are needlessly confusing, often templates have weird bugs and their online support is next to nil unless one of their contributors is still active.

My company was using WordPress for our website creation. It was good while it lasted because it does allow users throw up something on the web, but there are far easier websites to use to create a website.

The core of the WordPress platform is free for anyone to download and is well maintained. Updates, security patches, and enhancements come at regular intervals and is well supported by 3rd party developers. The core framework allows near total customization to fit your environment from the small, home based business to the enterprise class customer.

Honestly, there isn't anything to dislike about the core wordpress software platform.

extending and ever expanding the marketing capabilities of any business. The ROI is quick and management is easy.

People tell me you can maintain your site better on here and toot that it's free. It is the base foundation of how anyone can make a website nowadays. It is universal.

I don't think it's user-friendly. I think you need a stronger baseline in understanding tech in order to figure out how to use it. I don't fully understand how to edit the themes. I was worried that widgets would negatively affect my appearance. Hard trouble shooting.

It has given me the benefit of more stress.

I like the ability to use the platform to be creative and have your style come through.

Not great at user friendliness. It takes a while to ge the hang of the platform.

Allows the user to create a great website for a business that isn't very expensive to manage.

I liked the many options for widgets and other applications that worked in conjunction or integrated with Wordpress.

Its functionality was temperamental. My site would shut down for segments of time multiple times a day. We tried to run diagnostics many times, but came to no real conclusion of the issue. I used the program for multiple years, and finally gave up for a more user-friendly application.

It created more problems, then it was worth. However, it did use great integration with other applications and software. It provided quite a bit of versatility in its use. Yet, again, it constantly had problems that we could not get a resolution for. And, when I finally canceled membership, it ignored my cancellation and proceeded to automatically sign me up for three years! Thankfully, they reimbursed my money - but all of that was a "process".

I love the availability of Wordpress. I really like that it's open source. As a php developer myself, I like that I can dig into the internals of the code to find out what's going on. Also, the documentation is fabulous. A rich plugin ecosystem and rich APIs for writing your own plugins. All in all, it's a mature project with a fantastic base of plugins and themes.

It's a security nightmare though. Historically it's been one problem after another with sites being hacked and defaced regularly. Add in that some updates break backward compatibility with themes and plugins, and webmasters tend to not upgrade it which leaves them with hackable sites. All in all a bad situation.

WordPress.org gives us the ability to self host our own WordPress internally on intranet servers. This has historically been helpful although we have moved completely away from this. We now use a professional managed wordpress hosting company.

The preset designs were appealing. Difficult to change or update.

Everything. So difficult to use. The learning curve is insane and there's no clear path to do anything.

I used it to house newletters and meeting minutes. We have since switched to using another platform.

Absolutely nothing. I cannot believe the market saturation with Wordpress. It produces some of the least responsive, glitchiest, ugliest websites in existence.

Everything. Plugins, themes, a thousand developers pretending to make you great sites, back and forth ridiculousness. Unable to easily edit HTML of specific pages. Nothing words, different plugins break other ones, updates inconsistent.

Every business needs a website. But there are so many solutions. Either you need a basic pretty portfolio / landing page, so use Squarespace, or you need a massive fully functional e-commerce site so just hire a webdev.