WordPress Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

WordPress is the content management system we use to build, develop and update our company website. WordPress is a very popular, mature program with many plugins and integration capabilities with other platforms. It is very easy to edit and this allows us to easily and html content, graphics, and pdfs when we update information about our products and accessories. Moreover, it is very easy to chose a template to create new product pages when we launch new product pages. When we add an updated pdf to replace existing datasheet pdfs, we can maintain the existing clean url so our distributors who use that url on their website do not have to make any changes. WordPress integrates with Salesforce.com and HubSpot so we create WordPress pages with forms and pass info on form submissions to Salesforce and HubSpot. WordPress allows us to make a very user friendly interface including mega menus and pages with filter selections so users can filter content by country, language, product, document type, and business vertical. In addition to graphics, WordPress allows us to embed Youtube videos from our channel and partner channels.

So many small, medium, and large companies from a wide variety of industries are using WordPress so the platform seems to be well suited for almost everyone. More and more software platforms are integrating with WordPress. WordPress is user friendly, especially for creating blog posts and content that is not overly complex, while other platforms like Drupal might provide more customization, data management, and security.

As of today Jan 29, 2022, I have used WordPress (.com, not .org) as my hosting platform for my website since 2016. I am paid up for the 1-year business plan, and it doesn't expire till May of 2022. I noticed the WordPress app logo on my phone changed from bright blue to dull blue a couple of days ago, but I didn't think much about it until I went to my website. I believe WordPress took it upon themselves to change my Business Plan to the "free" plan and now all my products in my eCommerce shop are gone! During my experience, the Hestia Lite theme was removed and, in my opinion, everything on my website has changed and it looks awful! I put over a year of work and hundreds of hours getting my website to look beautiful and now, I feel like all of that is lost! To my understanding, free plans don't have access to instant WordPress chat with technical support, so I have to email them and they don't reply on weekends so I believe this will take weeks to resolve. Personally, I am livid and disgusted with WordPress! I ADVISE YOU NOT TO USE WORDPRESS.COM! IN MY OPINION, USE ANOTHER WEB HOSTING SITE!

In my opinion, if a zero was an option I would choose 0 out of 10, but there's no 0 to select. I would strongly recommend people to stay away from WordPress. Because, in my experience, they have shown that those who have paid for the business plan in full for a year in advance that it is NOT a guarantee that they will keep your business plan as they will change it to the "free plan", which I believe will mess up your site horribly!

I have been using WordPress since 2013. I started with the basic blog website and till now I have delivered many Websites based on WordPress for e-commerce and other fields. It's very easy to set up and the plugin library is amazing, everything can be done in a few steps if anyone has the working knowledge. The only drawback is frequent updates and management of the plugins.

A person with basic knowledge can install WordPress easily from the channel but to the actual results, you need the expert. The creating and setup with 3rd party APIs is the time taken and some time WordPress stuck. But overall you have the best tool in the market for website management.

Our organization uses WordPress for our online bulk food store. It has addressed the issue of being able to reach audiences that are not local to our store, so we can reach a broader group of customers.

I have used several web platforms, and WordPress is by far my favorite. With all of the customization options, it was a must have for our more complex store platform. I love the ability to add plug ins to give a plethora of capabilities from customizable shipping options, to customizable cart options, to everything between!

Wordpress is used to build smaller sites that we need to look good, and be able to create within a timely manner. Wordpress also allows us to create great looking content/websites for our clients, and it's easy to hand over the editing capabilities to them with little training on the CMS.

I think that WordPress is well suited to people who have a small business and are looking to have a blog on their website. I believe that if you have a major site, I would stick with hiring a professional developer/team to build and run your website.