WordPress.com Reviews & Product Details

It so easy to use, there is a plugin and theme for nearly everyone! There are amazing knowledge based communities on Facebook and around the web where you can find a solution quickly and efficiently

Mainly my issues only arise with plugin developers that don't keep their plugins up to date with WordPress core.

We built websites for our radio stations instead of paying 10's of thousands of dollars for an outside developer to do it we were able to keep it in house and we can manage our own websites too.

I think this is a simple way for anyone to get a site set up and running and make a start in the online world

There some drawbacks of course - the fact that Wordpress has some security issues for one and also there are some design limitations but for beginning in the online world this is fine

We use wordpress as away to test and develop simple sites to see it there is a really market in the niche or sector we are seeking to move intoi

It's incredibly customizable and very easy to use.

sometimea you have to edit important files that are hidden.

Many of my clients want a user-friendly site they can manage on their own, with Wordpress I've been able to deliver exactly what they ask for.

WP is first of all open source so fully supported by the development community therefore continually evolving. It is highly opinionated i.e. it is designed to handle publishing, so if that's what you want to do then you will have all the tools you need. We build on WP at scale for our newspapers and magazines with a full development team supporting a cluster of sites with around 1 million posts; but I personally run a website of my own with no support (I have no web development skills other than basics) so WP is designed for every level. Because of it's plug in architecture it is easy to expand on the core platform and bring new features and tools

The way that images are stored in the media gallery isn't great and there isn't really a plug in we have found that is suitable. There has been a lot spoken about security and WP and this is a valid concern but not around the core product but actually about keeping plug ins as well as WP compatible and up to date; so at some point you will need development resource; however because of the size of the community finding someone to do this tends to be a lot cheaper.

After being locked into a number of enterprise publishing solutions we took the decision to build our web assets on open source products around 4 years ago; WP is our choice for publishing. We needed an open system which would not leave alot of technical debt were we to decide to move to another system; and one that was founded on a widely known language; in this case PHP, making it easier for us to find talented developers. This allowed us to build our publishing business at scale on a single connected cluster (we support around 70 WP sites with around 12 million pages a month within this cluster). This has transformed how we build and support our business. Since we use a single system it can be supported by all members of the development team; and learnings can be transformed across the team. This has made product design and testing more agile and failure less expensive as it takes less time to prototype. We are no longer beholden to bespoke systems with expensive support contracts and now outsource very little design or development. On the front end very little training is required for the editorial floor; WP is intuitive for anyone who can use a keyboard so wide scale adoption across the business was straightforward and on one of our newspapers we publish our printed product from WP. WP have recently made changes to their REST API making it easier to develop within it; this has opened up new possibilities as to how we manage and transform data and will lead to further improvements

It's the easiest and fastest way to get a high converting landing page up.

It's security features are lacking and it's way too simple to hack an insecure site.

We are trying to reach a greater demographic and social media combined with wordpress has helped us.

I love the simplicity of putting together a site that allows you to concentrate on the content rather than the back-end. I used Dreamweaver for AGES, but now I'm devoted to my WordPress dashboard. :)

I think the array of themes is overwhelming, not necessarily for the selection offered, but for the array of different options and customizations that you think you may have, but the differences among the themes are subtle yet significant. I have found myself switching through three to four themes in order to nail down the one I want... at the free level. I have yet to determine if purchasing a Premium plan works for me.

Searchability, navigability, and ease of setting up a site means that I can get back to content quicker. :)

There are plenty of tutorial resources available and the ability to customize your site however you want it great.

At the time that I used it, it was more difficult to archive things by categories than by date.

I used WordPress to blog for my employee. It was a great tool to get information out there less formally than a press release. I liked the ability to create separate blogs for different things, as well as the SEO capabilities.

I love how easy-to-use Wordpress is. You can update a professional website in a simple form -- It's super great for companies who have many people managing the website.

So far, nothing. Anything I've struggled with has come from user error :)

We definitely SAVE time by having Wordpress, because it's easy to use and easy to understand. I love saving time by making a product simple to use. Anyone in our office can use WordPress.

I love the ease of creating a new blog post and customizing each one. It's easy to add images, work with the CSS code to change certain things, and tag each photo for SEO. I also love being able to add plugins to customize my blog even more.

I wish it were easier to find certain settings. For example, if you have the line spacing set to double space, it's not easy to figure out how to change that. Most of the things I need to change are very simple and user friendly, but some of them are set up in "settings" or another section and aren't easily changed from post to post.

I'm learning to utilize SEO when blogging. I've realized the benefits of having a plugin (such as Yoast) that guides me through this process. Wordpress makes it so easy to add tags, set up SEO and create headings in each blog post.

I love how easy to use and customize WordPress is. Weather you are using it for a blog, website, or both, even at the free level there are so many options and ways to make it personalized for you use. Every template you start with gives you such a boost on making your blog/website look clean and professional. It is also so easy to understand how to navigate the admin tools, how to create pages, to write blog posts, add videos, etc. It is easy to get services, which are also easy to integrate and I think everything is very reasonably priced.

Nothing. Even at the free level, there is still so much you can do, and you get your moneys worth when you pay for services.

WordPress is such a great resource to communicate with my audience. As a writer, being able to share more intimately about my writing process and novels allows for my work to be more engaging to my readers. Not to mention, as an indie author, that personal connection is really important for gaining and keeping new readers.

I love this software as it is one of the most extensible products I have found. There are plugins for almost any specific need and at any needed price range. I have helped my church with this product, as well as run a private blog and several sites ranging from a single page product announcement to review sites. In the past, I wrote my own CMS as well as hard coded websites that I'd have to update constantly for users. Now, I can give access to the end users and let them run it themselves.

There are far too many things that REQUIRE a plugin. Without a plugin, user management is a pain in the ***. Setting up permissions is an all or nothing out of the box and we lack a lot of what is in most commercial CMS apps that aren't so easy to accomplish. Secondly, plugins are a crap shoot and there is little quality control. I have found free plugins that work amazingly and paid plugins that end up becoming resource hogs. For things that should have been built in. Unless you live and breath Wordpress -- which I don't as I'm not using it daily -- it can be overwhelming.

Getting information out to the public easily and efficiently without having to have the end users come to me! I was once a web developer, graduate degrees in the sciences means that I'm a little more valued elsewhere! I don't want to be the person to support everything...and this allows me not to have to do anything with the exception of installation and quick instruction. Usually I can hand off my work to someone else with technical skills who may actually be able to do more!

I love how easy it is to get started with a template. There are so many great templates available for a business website for free, and easily customized. I've found the right template covers 90% of my needs, while equally easy-to-use plugins cover the remaining ones. You don't have to know how to code websites or even be much of a techie to use WordPress! And there are so many great tutorials out there to guide you through it step by step.

I do wish WordPress had better solutions to brute-force attacks. I know this is a problem with just about any website that has a login page, but when one of my websites started getting 20+ failed logins per day from foreign countries, it took me a long time to research and implement the right solutions. If WordPress could provide better protection against brute-force attacks right out of the gate, that might save people a lot of time, worry, and frustration.

As a freelancer, my website is my business's face to the world. All of my business is done online, and WordPress: 1. Makes connecting me with my customers possible; 2. Allows me to provide clear descriptions of services and prices, helpful FAQs, and a contact form; 3. Lets me show off my previous projects in a neatly tiled "portfolio" page, where potential customers can click through products I've worked on available at retailer websites; and 4. Allows me to share customer testimonials. If it handled online payments and e-signing documents, it would literally be a one-stop-solution for me.

I love the user layout and customization options that is available with WordPress and WordPress themes. Great for blogging and checking out new online content. There is also a mobile app that is free to use, which is avaliable in Apple's App store as well as the Google PlayStore.

The premium version of WordPress is a bit costly for my taste,and isn't worth it if you are just a causal user oif the site. I wish the premium version was not so high priced

It is a great tool to get yourself out there if you blog.

- Great plugins for absolutely everything! - User-friendly, online, open-source website creation tool that enables my agency to create informative and e-commerce websites for our clients. - Simplicity. Very easy to use and operate on a daily basis. Easy for our clients to learn to use to run their own website (especially ecommerce sites, at least the basics: making minor content changes, adding/removing products, etc). Some of our clients are not 'techy' so they fear not being able to edit and manage their own website. But throughout the years, many plugins have made it easier for the mass public to use - Very good for SEO purposes. There are great plugin that aid you in setting up your SEO the right way to ease visibility on search engines

- Difficult to edit websites on mobile, it should be easier and faster to make changes on the go - Open source: a good and bad thing. It's easier for hackers to find loopholes and hack your website. However, there are many ways to protect yourself from this risk - Dashboard has had the same old, generic look for years. Although they added colors and personalization, it still looks dull and boring.

Wordpress enables my agency to create beautiful, modern, and fast informative and e-commerce websites for our clients. A huge benefit is that it's relative easy to manage, which is great for our clients who run their own businesses.

Simple, very integrative to other platforms we need to use it with and easily sharable

I really like so no real negatives, it gets a glitchy sometimes but that could be the other platforms

Mass knowledge ina quick fashion and we realize it is very shareable and manageable

I work with Wordpress every. Single. Day. It is the content management system to hundreds of websites that our clients manage. What do I like best? It is constant updating, constantly evolving. Search engine optimization is easier than ever utilizing Wordpress. Plugins allow you to add more functionality to your site than you can ever imagine turning your website from a site simple site into a machine.

I dislike that people build bots try to take down Wordpress sites through malware. I dislike how many plugins you have to install to get functionality that should purely exist in the Wordpress framework.

We are building websites that are user friendly and easy to manage. We are giving our clients the power they deserve. They don't have to pay an arm and a leg for a designer and developer every time they want to make an edit and for that, they are grateful.

It's so simple to use and it is SEO friendly. You don't have to have any previous programming experience to get into Wordpress. Of course, there are many tutorials to get you started online.

Since it is so easy to learn, people can just install different themes and plugins for their website. There's tons and tons of different themes but you might run into someone using the same theme for their website. As such, I think that is the one thing I disliked.

The business has a website and it's driving a lot of traffic to it.

I love all of the design options and the countless customization for all types of categories. No matter what kind of blog you want to design, there is something for you. You can use Wordpress on its own, or integrate it into your existing website.

Some of the prettier or more complex designs are paid, but that doesn't really take away from the large list of free designs available.

I am able to post past and current work in any fashion for clients to go and look at. They can also provide any feedback they please. It's also a great way for potential clients to get ahold of you if they like what they see. A lot of photographers use blogs to keep clients in the loop with what they are doing.

Wordpress is easy to learn, and there are a variety of different templates, plugins and widgets to give your site the look and feel you want. Wordpress integrates with a variety of applications and can tie all of your social media into a site.

Sometimes it can be confusing to navigate the platform, as there are so many options and different areas where customizable features are located.

It makes it easy to communicate with our customers. Our mailing list has been able to grow, thanks to integration with constant contact, and the ability to update our blog from the wordpress platform.

Primarily Wordpress is ideal if you're looking for an interface that is intuitive enough for a novice to navigate. For me, this was perfect. I've used it both to build my own website, and for work in content creation. In both instances Wordpress has been highly responsive and customizable.

Some of the themes are a bit basic, and I wish there were more mobile friendly site templates that have a crisp, clean look. Too often you see many businesses flocking to the same themes these days, which makes it difficult to stand out if you too are using one that many others favor.

Creating content that is eye-catching and exists on a site that is both responsive and user-friendly have been the primary goals in my work as a writer. For my own Wordpress website, creating a site that is elegant and simple was my focus, and I was able to achieve that with Wordpress.