WordPress.org Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

Love the designs and the widgets! Wordpress has basically anything you need to run an amazing website.

Some of the templates are not easy to use, especially if you have little web background. Templates can be tricky and it is hard to know where to get help for them. Also my website was attacked this year with malware so that shows me there are some security issues.

I ran two businesses using Wordpress and it helped drive new customers to my websites!

WordPress is very simple to use. No coding experience needed whatsoever.

Sometimes I am looking for a function to make my website a certain way, but I cannot find the option to add it in.

My company needs a simple website builder that we can update on the fly. WordPress allows us to accomplish this goal. No more needing to upload my files to our server, we simply press save.

WordPress has consistently been an industry standard in the realm of web design. It is simple enough that it can easily be picked up by a complete amateur with the purchase of a relatively cheap theme; while still allowing the complexity of design to remain a powerful tool in the hands of an educated user. The plugin library can typically fill nearly any need that arises, and often makes life easier even for power users. Automated optimization, caching, backups, etc... are all things that can really save a ton of time in the long run.

WordPress can be a little bit limiting at times, some fixes can require users to completely circumvent the WordPress installation and make changes to files directly on the server the website is hosted. Theme and plugin authors are often not very well vetted, and it is frightening how easy it can for amateurs to ruin their website in a single click.

WordPress makes keeping the primary business website up-to-date and secure a breeze. SEO plugins like Yoast have also helped dramatically with SERP scores and rankings.

Wordpress is easy to navigate and the customization options are absolutely endless. It's also great for developing on a local server so that you don't have to waste money purchasing dummy domain names.

Nothing! Wordpress is easily the best CMS available.

I use Wordpress.org to develop websites for myself and clients.

WordPress is free, extremely user friendly and provides incredible depth for customization. If you can imagine it, WordPress can probably do it. With a large share of the Internet running on this CMS, you can depend on it being around for a good, long time and with easy support and accessibility.

Security is, and always has been a BIG issue with WordPress. The nature of the CMS opens itself up to an incredible amount of attacks through third-party services, and while the WordPress team aims to keep things as secure as possible, all it takes is one old/unsecure plugin to really ruin your day. On top of that, the platform is open source. So if things do go south, there won't be support when you need it.

WordPress is easy to use, endlessly customizable and widely accepted as one of (if not THE) most-used CMS in the world. If you're a developer, SEO or marketer with a little savvy and self-learning, you can quickly toss your hat into the development ring and make using WordPress a big part of your earnings toolkit.

Wordpress gives me the tools to customize my website, so it looks exactly the way I want it to look. It also gives me the power to change the website on my own without the task being overly technical. The widgets, tools, and apps really help flesh out the website. Edits go live quickly or whenever is best for you. Help is available through article contributions from community members, and just about any questions I had was answered. Learning to maintain the website becomes easier as I got more accustomed to using it.

Wordpress took a bit of learning and familiarization for me as I'm not technologically savvy and felt the whole process of getting started overwhelming and intimidating. It was a steep learning curve in the beginning, and I was lucky enough to have a friend help me out in the beginning.

My business is now online, so I have a much larger market now. I'm able to better build brand recognition and I have the power to control how my products are presented to the world. It doesn't take as much work to maintain as I imagined, and making changes to is not too challenging either.

Wordpress.org is awesome - we can easily customize it for client sites, and make additional features go live quickly and easily via plugins. Staging and Live areas are easy to mirror.

Wordpress is too big sometimes, and make things too complex because it tries to do it all.

We use wordpress.org to power live websites with minimal investment in training for non technical users.

Wordpress does everything you could ever want to create a website. It's flexible and intergrates with everything. Almost all designers and developers know wordpress, so it's a safe bet if hiring out, and it's not too hard to figure out if you're creating your own website/blog.

For someone who needs something very basic, I would recommend something with a softer learning curve.

Websites that work and integrate with everything.

It is very user friendly it allows me to easily teach others how to use the proram.

When I first started using it I found it confusing. They have cleaned that up and now I am able to teach blogging.

It provides us opportunity to share with others.

How easy it is to integrate w/ business.

Sometimes difficult to use w/o assistance

We currently use WordPress to edit and update portions of our forward-facing website. For the reason alone, I would say that WordPress is worth utilizing in your own solutions.

I love the different templates you can use.

Formatting can sometimes be off once you go live.

Mostly used for helping build start up websites.

I really like the layout and the format. Its great to work with and very user friendly.

There isn't anything I don't like. I really like workpress.org and will continue to use it.

Advertising items through keeping a blog. I like to appeal to stay-at-home moms, so reviewing an item by way of a blog is a great way to advertise for my business!

It is an open source system. There is a big community of support forums and a lot of plugins are available for free to help you to build and maintain your site.

Security. You need to update wp and plugins versions to avoid security risk.

Content management and store.

Most popular CMS to build any kind of websites from small to large scales, whether it's normal, blog, eCommerce store, landing pages, opt-in forms etc. You can find extensive plugins and widgets for your custom needs and you can customize almost everything in WordPress. Lots of beautifully designed themes available online, so you can choose the look and feel of your website. Another best part is there are plenty of tutorials available online for setting it up and to learn advanced features and customization. WordPress is also very good for SEO. The interface is very user-friendly of WordPress. You can host your website directly from wordpress.org with around 30 dollars per year, which is very cheap in comparison to other providers. WordPress is perfect for any kind of need related to website development.

There are not many dislikes I have for WordPress. Though plugin and WordPress updates are needed to be monitored at regular intervals. Sometimes programs find a little difficulty while changing the basic code of WordPress, you'll have to understand it's structure first if you're doing the customization without 3rd party plug-in. I am little worried about the security to reduce the problems with plugins but WordPress is working hard to improve its security. Also you can use 3rd party security plugins. It's a great CMS to build quality websites.

We're a small-scale web development agency and we use WordPress for creating quality websites for our clients. We're using it for so many years and now we also build complex and large websites with the help of WordPress. We deliver the websites in a very short span of time. We use it for blog creation, eCommerce store, normal website, Landing pages, opt-in forms etc. WordPress is the best CMS we have ever used.

Being an open source project Wordpress is fully extendable. It is for this reason that there are 1,000s of plugins to extend the core functionality. Not only that but there are even more templates that are simple to install. These templates cover almost any type of website available and most of them are already made for mobile devices as well.

One drawback of being an open source project is that Wordpress can have some security issues. Anyone can look at the source code and savvy hackers can find a way in. However, you can mitigate this by doing the following. Install a security plugin, find a good host with strong security and take daily backups (this can also be done with a plugin).

Wordpress provides my company with an online presence. This, in turn, allows us to generate leads, acquire new partners and provide a home for our blog. We also now have a public face in which potential clients can get more information. Finally, it gives our current customers a place they can go to find our login websites.

Easy to use, easy to get help from my vendor

Can't adapt to everything the exact way

Having a website that I can work with

Wordpress was relatively simple to use for someone new to website building. Most of it, I could figure out pretty quickly and simply.

Some of the tech support was lacking. There were a few things I struggled to understand, and there were no readily available answers on the website.

Worked on improving sales by reaching a broader audience. It's incredibly flexible and has been able to change with me as my target audience has shifted.

Ease of use. SEO friendliness. Ability to do anything you want to with your website.

Ease of use can be deceptive, because some people don't realize that a website takes care and maintenance.

I have created many websites for friends and clients. Very customizable.

There is nothing I cannot do with WP. A number of templates and customization is amazing.

Nothing really, no other tool comes close to WP.

Websites, blogging, retail

There is a large community using this product - so answers are always there. Diversity of options and the price! I can always YouTube questions if I have them! It seems like a complete software to create a website.

It took me a while to learn to navigate. Using the visual builder can be difficult and frustrating at times, as it is quite finicky depending on where the mouse is.

We have a website because of WordPress! This allows us to fundraise and spread the word of our mission!

WordPress.com gives you tremendous control of your blogging environment. Maybe more so than any free blogging platform. I run two blogs and the ability to give different levels of access to editors is a great benefit

There is some learning curve; requires up-front time investment and if you really want to benefit you have to be willing to continue to learn

Great platform for sharing content. It allows you to personalize & customize your environment for a professional look.

Wordpress is the best way to start a small blog plataform

I have used wordpress for a long time and I think it has lost the touch that caught me, since its beginnings it was (and still is) the best blog platform now with the use of plugins has greatly distorted the original use of what was use wordpress

Simple corporate website and blog

When it comes to Wordpress, there really isn’t anything better!

Sometimes there seems to be too many configurations and you may need expert help for complex sites

Reaching higher funnel customers amd engaging them for the long haul

Using Wordpress is very easy, there are a lot of blogging software in which I have to go back to use Wordpress because of ease of use. It has many plugins, some are free and some are paid, they can be easily searched on the wordpress site all of the plugins

I really don't like the security of wordpress, sometimes I got malware every now and then.

Blogging Software, Shopping Cart, Company Portfolio and Customer Relations Management. It's easy to handle and manage.

There are so many plugins that help to really keep various audiences engaged.

I wish there was an easy way to export to pdf or word documents.

We use it for hosting our website and since WP is easy to maintain it saves us time from hosting our own site completely from our end.

The actual WordPress platform , selection of templates, builders, plugins, etc.

Hello Dolly and Akismet Plugins. Also themes and plugins that don't comply with the latest version of WordPress should be removed from the repository. More themes with out builders built in, especially local themes with better call to action such as widget in header for address and phone.

Building websites for clients using the WordPress platform gives the best functionalities clients want or may need. Relatively easer to build than even a year ago.

I love the clean look of our blog and easy to use.

It can sometimes be buggy and lockup when posting but that could be my PC.

Our new website did not have blog hosting. Wordpress was easily integrated to our new site while maintaing the look of the site.

Once I got used to it, it's been fairly simple to make changes to our website text and features.

It's not intuitive to get around and make changes. It takes some training and a lot of figuring out.

Business website - great modern theme now in production

Easy to use and ease of customization. We have a easy time training our staff to use it.

Plugin market is quite saturated, and can have vulnerabilities.

Developed our new website in Wordpress. Huge compliments were given to the ease of use of the platform and the operation of the site

How simple it is for a knucklehead like me to use

The design limitations. That's about it.

Getting my online presence established.