WordPress.org Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

I like that there is an enormous plugin library that you can add to your wordpress site

I dislike how slow Wordpress is, and how hard it is to deeply customize your site. If you want to deviate from plugins or templates significantly, it becomes crazy tough and tedious.

We're doing online raffles. we've avoided work duplication through plugin purchases.

I don’t like a lot about Wordpress. It’s not my favorite

It’s not easy to use. It’s overwhelming and frustrating.

None.

I liked how professional the blogs and websites I saw from others were, but I had such a hard time setting mine up and I wasn’t able to go very far with my website!

It is so hard to do anything with this website.it made me feel stupid and I’m a pretty smart person. I had a terrible time setting up my website.

It was so hard to set up this page, that I ended up using another avenue for my business

I like that you can upload all your items in one place And I like that it is free to use when you are not wanting your own domain name.

I dislike that it is not the most easiest website to use and not very flexible in terms of design.

It is good for a free website for beginners wanting to start their business. However it is limited in terms of design and would not suit most medium to large businesses and those businesses that wish to use their creativity on their website as it is not flexible.

I like that creating a post on this platform is as simple as creating a blog post. You can just open the editor and start creating a page or post for your blog/website

Because of this platform's publishing, if you arent familiar with CSS or other coding, you're limited to the power of your theme and customization feels limited.

Hosting our entire eCommerce platform, and running our blog

The flexibility and ability to be more creative in design.

The complexity and lack of intuitiveness.

Open platform.

what I like the most is it’s free access and connection through with jet to other social media still difficult to navigate through it.

I dislike the poor user friendly navigation; it is difficult to apply all functions if you’re a beginner with WordPress. It is a template module, but it is still tricky to navigate through it.

I am currently blogging for a rooftops blog in Madrid

I paid big money for.a website, designed by another company. That this is free is attractive.

I have not been able to get a reasonable site up. I isn’t not user friendly.

I have had n account for many years, but still have been unable to get the support I need.

I think WordPress has a lot of good qualities and contains many good features including the built in analysis you can see at the top of the page and the accessible side bar present on the dashboard.

It crashes a lot and can be slow. Updates are hard to install because they take so long.

Job postings are what we use it for- and managing the users and recognized employees in our company that can log into the portal.

There are many benefits to using a wordpress.org as your hosted platform. You don't have to worry about platform updates, etc. However, because of that, you are somewhat limited with what you can do as far as a custom solution. If you're looking for a free blogging platform and/or want to learn how to use wordpress, this is a good place to start.

You're unable to deploy fully custom solutions. For that, you are better off either going self-hosted, or using another wordpress hosting solution from another host.

No real business problems are solved. This is useful for when we need to show new users how easy it is to maintain a website built on wordpress.

Ease of use, abundance of plugins (many free), quick development process

Security is a nightmare, mostly due to PHP

Quick turnaround for building small client sites, landing pages, etc. while giving content control to the manager

There are a lot more options to customize your website than other website programs.

It's quite difficult to use for a non-experienced user.

Setting up a website to promote personal business.

Its a cost effective way to set up a new website. You can pay for a quick and easy template which allows for minimal customizations. Overall templates are new and stylish which is another benefit.

The interface can be somewhat confusing. It's not always easy to see the difference between a blog post and a web page on the free version. Free templates are nice but restrictive and doesn't allow for many customizations.

I'm solving the problem of needing a free or cheap personal site. I use it for my personal portfolio. The template is visually appealing and the interface is easy enough to use to make quick updates as needed.

It apparently offers all sorts of benefits for those who know how to use it..

I stay so confused when my company uses WordPress, I really don't know what all the site does. No interest in trying to learn more about it.

We have used it to share training videos.

I enjoy the customization and the look of my new website. We feel more professional that we did with our previous site.

The program is not very user friendly. When there is a problem rarely can I solve it myself even with lots of googling.

Wordpress hosts my website.

Wordpress is widely used and therefore has a lot of plugins for different functions within the website.

The preset options are aesthetically pleasing as some others offered, and the user experience is frustrating at times.

Plugins allow for integration among different platforms which is very helpful. We are able to link our wordpress site to Facebook.

The ease is creating a webpage and adding stories

The limited number of apps and add-ons

Website creation

I liked how you can choose certain themes to make the process easier

Not being able to use certain functions unless you pay more, or even being able to integrate certain features from our team because WordPresses environment isn't compatible

We were trying to start a web-based community for game stratgies

i liked the large selection of downloadable templates and extensions

The platform is easy for hackers to break

I used to use for my website. I got tired of fixing hacks

Flexibility to create personalized website features. User can create the site they want, and go from there.

Back end is clunky, much harder to use than, say, Squarespace. The ability to create any kind of site can have limiting factors on less-skill designers and developers.

Intuitive design, pleasing aesthetics. Communicating with community members and attracting a new audience to our site.

There are endless plug ins and possibilities. It's been around and isn't going anywhere.

Clunky interface, easy to mess something up and all the unmonitored third party solutions often cause things to get outdated and buggy.

It's an easy, potentially free way to get a website. If you have a team that knows what they are doing and manages ongoingly, you can get very customized! Otherwise, it may cause more frustration than necessary.

I love the layout of wordpress and the easiness of navigating the site

I was trying to transfer my blogspot to wordpress, and found the whole task to be VERY difficult, mostly on Wordpress' end. I thought it would be simple like transferring hotmail to gmail, but this is a special monster. Unfortunately I will not be using wordpress.

Personal

It was easy to use as someone with no website experience; I was able to figure out how to do most of what I wanted to as far as changes without involving our hosting company.

I disliked that it was too basic. Also hard to navigate and very elementary as far as layout.

We are no longer using WordPress. The greatest benefit was being able to quickly make changes when needed.

I chose to use WordPress.org over other website building/software because it seemed to be the most popular. I liked that there were then a lot of free resources available (guides, message boards) to consult since I am a novice to web development.

It wasn't a very user-friendly service, and the guides that I saw before I purchased the software were not helpful once I had it. There wasn't an easy way to manage the software on the go (no good phone or ipad app) and since I travel a lot, that was difficult. I liked at first that the user interface seemed bare-- no bells or whistles-- but as I started working, every page looked the same and I got lost in the pages easily.

At the time I had transferred a popular food blog from Tumblr to WordPress. I was hoping for a more professional looking site, with more customizable options and easier planning tools. I never felt like a quite got the hang of the software though, and had trouble finding anyone to walk me through it. In the end I transitioned to Wix.

The plugins are very helpful for search engine optimization.

Unintuitive interface that makes it hard to find what you are looking for (for example widgets or plugins). There is little room for customization. However, this may have changed in the past year, as I used Wordpress a year ago and haven't gone back since.

As someone with zero experience in coding, I had a very difficult time navigating the platform and making my posts look exactly the way I wanted to.

Can't think of anything I like about it.

We keep getting other people's posts, because there seems to be an overlap from someone else's account.

Booking

It works really well for a blog platform.

I feel like you're hacking it to work for anything other than blogging.

It's an easy platform to hand off to non-tech centric people.

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

The WP Admin is too complicated to navigate. The interface will feel much more cluttered and disorganized. The Wordpress interface compared to other CMS’s is good, but compared to website builders it’s not.

Website Creation and maintenance

I do have to admit I liked that layouts at first. They offered me options for good websites and if you were a blogger, this software is right up your ally.

I was introduced to other platforms and found that Wordpress, for me, was a lot more complicated to use, especially building websites. You definitely have to know how to code to get basic options done. I used Wix and other web builders since then and I am much happier with the results.

Social Media connections are easy with this software. I am able to provide links for them and update multiple channels with Word Press. Once again, I go back to it being a blogger's best friend. It seemed to be focused on that and it was very easy to create and customize.

I like as an Admin the website always come up on my page with the tool bar at the top of the site.

It is not easy to use and change items. Some of the coding gets to be time consuming. If you are not good at coding this is not the site that you want.

We are solving an issue with classes we are trying to sell. There was a bug in the system that it took days to find, and in the end we had to completely redo those pages.