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Still one of the most versatile website platforms on the market.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wordpress is our go-to platform for building websites, whether internal intranets, CRM-esque systems, or just full-on B2B or B2C sites. It's our agency-level expertise, and we much prefer it to other systems, including Joomla and Drupal.

Pros

Flexibility for custom coding.
Multiple plugin packages allowing low-code solutions.
Versatile styling options and ease of scaling to different media ratios.
Easy to maintain and update.
Easy to create test environments (host-dependent) and pipelines.

Cons

WPEngine and Wordpress fueding is ridiculous and threatens open source integrity.
The GUI hasn't changed much in years and could afford to be made more modern/condensed.
Allow more flexibility for login customization natively within the system.
It would be great to have more security features enabled without relying on third-party external products.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wordpress is a great solution for a website of nearly any type. It may not be as suitable if a fully custom solution or app is needed, and it does have some limitations when it comes to connecting it to external products (especially if the product doesn't have any support from a native system), and it does require a lot of testing. Multiple plugins in one install are common but also increase the risk of conflicts, and when those do occur, it can be exceptionally time-consuming and tedious to identify what is causing the issue. As third parties create many plugins, you're also at risk with each potential security breach, which needs to be kept in mind. I would be cautious to use WordPress to store any sort of sensitive PPI. That said, it's a wonderful, easily customizable solution for many, many different types of websites and can allow even inexperienced client users with low-tech knowledge to update basics.

Maria Clara Daly

Director of Interactive Strategy in Marketing at Stratacomm (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)

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14 years of experience

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Love WordPress!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress for my company's website. It helps me share about my brand, about who I am and why I am qualified to sell what I offer, helps me share what I offer in a visually pleasing way, and it also hosts my blog and sales pages.

Pros

Very easy to use if you are not super tech savvy
Can easily add templates to make the design of it very pretty
The ability to use it for blogging is the best online

Cons

I think having built in analytics that aren't part of a plugin would be helpful
I think the plugin updates needed should be moved higher up the sidebar

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are selling a service or digital products, or are a writer wanting to host a blog, I think WordPress would be awesome for you!

Verified User

Professional in Marketing (Information Technology & Services company, 1-10 employees)

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6 years of experience

WordPress, yes but no

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it to create our webiste. It was hard, really complicated to use, to include plugins, if you add one, the other one breaks, really hard to maintain, to organize and make it work. Not a very friendly system if you don;t have the proper experience. If you are not trined in every single plugin they have, you need to hire an expert and it will cost more money.

Pros

Advertising
Influencers offers

Cons

Have their own training courses
Being open makes it easy to get confused
Communication between plugins always has space to improve

Likelihood to Recommend

You need a web developer to create a proper website using WordPress. Is not that friendly for companies without experience to "build your own" website. It's easy to access, to set an account, to buy a domain and hosting, but to create and build the website, is not that simple.

Daniel Cetina

Founder in Marketing at Immunity Digital Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Gives Marketing teams power to use it as robustly as they want to put the effort into

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our main company website is custom built on wordpress. It is the hub of our marketing and sales funnel and hosts a variety of content and files as well. Internally, we use Wordpress to build our customer websites as well selling highly customizable yet easy to manage websites to our less than tech-savvy clients.

Pros

Allows Front-end people and marketing employees to manage, test, and leverage our website for a variety of things without spending time working with developers
When we do need a heavily custom approach, our developers can make anything we want in a way that we can continue to edit/manage
Templates & Plug ins make it easy for anyone to get started and achieve what they need even if the site isn't custom made.

Cons

Nothing is necessarily missing because anything can be built. If you don't have access to a developer, templates are typically available
The learning curve is a little steeper than some things but let's be honest, you're managing and creating a full website. I don't expect it to be incredibly easy on day 1.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have used it both in my day job working with a professional development team to create highly custom, robust websites. I have also used it personally to make small sites for my own resume or for a friend... even for fun. For a few bucks in templates/hosting there's very few scenarios it's not good for. Only if you need a site and don't understand web hosting/template implementation/basic front end code would I say maybe squarespace or something more basic/easy would be best for you. You may be more limited but if you can't afford the effort to learn web domain setup then it's best to avoid getting in over your head.

Verified User

Director in Marketing (Marketing & Advertising company, 51-200 employees)

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7 years of experience

Great free Website CMS or ECommerce site for the technically inclined

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WordPress to build websites and eCommerce sites of companies that want to be found organically. We work both with SaaS companies and eCommerce companies that sell nationally.

Pros

SEO
Customizations
Flexibility
eCommerce Solutions

Cons

3rd party companies advertising within the platform
Assuring plugins are well done
Page speed out of box

Likelihood to Recommend

If people are semi technical or already using WordPress, or want something free that doesn't lock them in, I recommend it. However with the legal issues with being Open Source and suing WordPress Engine, I no longer strongly recommend WordPress or have my clients switch over.

Verified User

Consultant in Marketing (Management Consulting company, 1-10 employees)

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10 years of experience

WordPress is The Only Answer

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use WordPress to host and design 80% of our websites including our corporate brand. It is the go-to environment for our new property websites and has been a significant tool as we migrate older website to this new environment. WordPress and its large suite of plugins, tools, and user-friendly templates allow us to move quickly in our day-to-day and carry over a suite of products that work for our business.

Pros

User-Friendly
Suite of Plugins
Customer Support

Cons

Plugin Updates

Likelihood to Recommend

It's my preferred platform for web hosting, design, and implementation. It allows the freedom to customize a build/website to our needs as a company. WordPress is well-suited for companies or departments that manage between 5-10 websites. Anything beyond that may be cumbersome to manage depending on your team size.

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Executive in Marketing (Real Estate company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Wordpress was wonderful to work with.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used WordPress to host and manage our blog content and some content landing pages.

Pros

Organizing Content Topics.
Custom Design.
Managing Blog Comments.

Cons

Optimizing database queries for faster loading times.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wordpress was great because it has a user-friendly interface. We implemented a lot of customization with the design and leveraged many helpful plugins.

Jeremy Bryant

Marketing Manager in Marketing at CheapAir.com (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 51-200 employees)

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15 years of experience

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WordPress Meets Our Requirements

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

uninterrupted uptime
supports easy page creation/updating (home page, landing pages, Tech Support page)
supports in-site searches by web visitors so they can easily find the exact content they are looking for
supports many themes and page templates (including custom themes and templates)
Integration with many other software platforms including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Event Management apps, Yoast SEO, Elementor

Cons

more AI capabilities to help create pages
a way to solve caching issues so the most current content is consistently provided to all visitors without visitors having to flush their cache
speed when saving edits. The speed isn't bad, but I could not think of anything else to nitpick about.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

Wonderful open source community

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a web marketing consultant specializing in websites that run on WordPress. I and my clients use WordPress to manage content, build attractive websites, and develop online communities. I have a couple clients that host their websites or use other services offered by Automattic, but most are independently hosted and use only the open-source WordPress offerings.

Pros

content management
excellent community of plugin and addon developers
easy to create custom designs to suit a particular organization

Cons

Automattic,in my opinion, the company that drives most of the WordPress core development, and its founder, have had a concerning track record of inappropriate and reactionary policies toward its competitors and the community as a whole.
“WordPress” can be challenging to learn, especially for new users, because it is not a single product. Rather, it is an ecosystem and a platform with developers and plugins from many different sources, of varying quality. It is imporatnt to have an expert help curate the software being used so that it runs smoothly and so that new users have a frame of reference for what they need to learn.
As with any open source project, development does not always follow a predictable schedule. New features may or may not be ready when expected.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would unequivocally recommend WordPress for anyone building a website. It is an incredibly powerful and flexible platform that can do virtually anything a website might need, by way of its array of plugins and add-on services available from various developers.

However, if someone is looking for a set-it-and-forget-it plug and play solution, or does not want to be bothered with technical details, WordPress is not a good choice unless you have an expert to help with these details.

Kenneth Gourlay

Marketing Consultant in Marketing at Http Us (Internet, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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WordPress can be a time saver and company asset

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress for business and personal websites. Have been using it since 2008, and for many applications. It can be adapted for many needs online, and can be a great tool for a business. However, if managing it yourself it can be a headache when plug-ins and themes conflict with each other.

Pros

Self hosted “cms”
Blogging
Quick store with plugins and themes
Easily adapts to simple or complex projects

Cons

Having a better common source for plugins and themes to reduce conflicts would be nice
Built in SEO without a deducted plugin would be nice
Built in cache without a plug-in would be nice
Having better file organization would be great

Likelihood to Recommend

I would highly recommend this to someone wanting a robust site if they are familiar with how to debug, or have access to a dedicated programmer or WordPress professional. I would not recommend this for a laymen of self-hosting and if you don’t have access to dedicated support, as plug-in and theme conflict can break a site and make it unusable.

Dustin Day

Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM in Marketing at DFT (a number of local companies under one umbrella) (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees)

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17 years of experience

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WordPress Meets Our Requirements

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 6, 2025

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Pros

uninterrupted uptime
supports easy page creation/updating (home page, landing pages, Tech Support page)
supports in-site searches by web visitors so they can easily find the exact content they are looking for
supports many themes and page templates (including custom themes and templates)
Integration with many other software platforms including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Event Management apps, Yoast SEO, Elementor

Cons

more AI capabilities to help create pages
a way to solve caching issues so the most current content is consistently provided to all visitors without visitors having to flush their cache
speed when saving edits. The speed isn't bad, but I could not think of anything else to nitpick about.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing company, 51-200 employees)

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11 years of experience