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WordPress.org Overview
What is WordPress.org?

WordPress is arguably the most popular open-source, cloud-based content management system based on PHP and MySQL designed to help small to large businesses create, manage and publish content for websites. The customizable solution allows enterprises to use plugins, widgets, and themes to simplify web creation and design. Top features allow users to upload and store multimedia content, auto-save progress, and restore critical data.

Company Automattic
Year founded 2005
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Headquarters Remote
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WordPress.org Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
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Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Linux, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
WordPress.org Pros and Cons
Pros
  • WordPress.org is free!
  • There are thousands of themes, plugins, and widgets to choose from
  • You have complete control over the functionality and aesthetic of your website. 
  • There’s an active community with plenty of self-help guides and documentation available online.
  • WordPress.org boasts powerful blogging features and SEO functionality.
Cons
  • At least with older versions of WordPress, the design editor comes with a steeper learning curve.
  • With any open-source software, you need to find your own hosting, which can seem daunting at first if you’re new to website creation. 
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WordPress.org Features
API Access
Asset Management
Collaboration Tools
Content Analytics
Content Archiving
Content Migration
Content Personalization
Content Preview
Content Scheduling
Customer Support
Customizable Templates
Drag and Drop Interface
E-Commerce Integration
Form Builder
GDPR Compliance
Inline Editing
Media Library
Mobile Editing
Multilingual Support
Plugins and Extensions
Responsive Design
SEO Management
Search Functionality
Social Media Integration
Tagging and Categorization
Template Management
User Roles and Permissions
Version Control
WYSIWYG Editor
Workflow Management
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8,637 WordPress.org Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 22, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Matt D. avatar
Matt D.
Author
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"Easy to use with plenty of options"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is an excellent platform for self - hosted sites. The general set up allows plenty of customization without the need to learn html and css, but also expands your options when you do know it. The plug-is absolutely then further add to this. The ease of scheduling posts has also made things easy for me.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Occasional glitches causing site downtime or incorrect post layouts do crop up.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

The platform has allowed me to build a professional looking site with ease, and in turn has let this grow with my knowledge.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
FM
Francis M.
Administrator
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"Popular & User Friendly Content Management System"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

What I like most about Wordpress is its interface is very clear and easy to use. Even people with only basic computer skills can use Wordpress very easily. In addition, Wordpress is now very popular, the time to create a website is also very fast. Wordpress also offers lots of free and paid plugins that help meet your website needs. Moreover, Wordpress also supports creating ecommerce websites quickly with WooCommerce.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

What I don't like about Wordpress is that there are too many updates. Just one month, I was reminded to upgrade Wordpress version 3-4 times. And sometimes upgrading the system version causes errors because of compatibility reasons. As mentioned above, creating a website with Wordpress is pretty quickly & easy. However, when you need to develop a large system, you need to learn and follow the documentation, as well as know how to adjust some codes to make everything meet your needs. In addition, although Wordpress offers a lot of free plugins, they usually work unstable and are not updated constantly. The paid plugins work quite well but the prices are high for me.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I usually use Wordpress to create an online ecommerce website based on the WooCommerce plugin. Overall, I am very happy when using Wordpress, it helps me to create any type of website I want, from ecommerce website, news website, blog, or business website. The stability of Wordpress is the main reason that I still use it at the moment.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
EM
Erin M.
Director Of Marketing
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"Steep learning curve but worth it when you do"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Once you start figuring it out - it's brilliant. I love how much I can customize my site. Many of the apps are free or low cost so it doesn't have to be a financial burden to be a beautiful site.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

The difference between the .org and .com versions is infuriating. And to switch from one to the other after you've signed up with the wrong one made me seriously miserable. It was SO HARD! And I'm very savvy. If I struggled that badly, I feel sorry for the people who don't have friends and colleagues to ask! However, I did use the chat support feature which saved the day. My rep was amazing. Thank God bc I was ready to delete the site off the face of the earth.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basic platform needs. I needed a website and using WordPress is a no-brainer. Well, once you figure out how to use it. But choosing WordPress over the others is a no-brainer.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SS
Sarah S.
Seo Specialist
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"WordPress is easy to use for non-technical people"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress always me to create pages easily with templates and I can also easily track conversions with the simple layout of the site.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Uploading content can be difficult without helpful tools like Beaver Builder.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

WordPress allows me to create easy to use, professional websites very quickly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 19, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Shanza K. avatar
Shanza K.
Co Founder
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"Best Website builder for personal and professional use."
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Builtin features, simple features, customizable options, and amazing plugins have made website development easy.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

There is an expectation to learn and adapt to the beginning, I'll agree. It takes anybody a not too bad measure of time to get moving on the stage and truly comprehend what they're doing. So, there are huge amounts of assets out there. Everything necessary is a brief period venture to ace your WordPress site. In the event that you don't have anybody show you how to work the backend of the site, it can appear not exceptionally natural.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

The best thing about WordPress is the amount of usefulness and control it offers over your site. There's nothing you can't do with it. Since their CMS is an OpenSource stage and the most generally utilized CMS, pretty much every host out there can have your WordPress site. On its note being OpenSource, you're not bound to the principal gathering highlights of the CMS like you would be with Wix or Squarespace. You can locate an outsider module for truly anything you need your webpage to manage without needing any site improvement foundation.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
James Maxwell D. M. avatar
James Maxwell D. M.
Vp & Chief Information And Compliance Officer
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"Time-tested, flexible, reliable. "
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Best starting platform for beginners who are just starting their first website. Works well also for non-beginners. Great web CMS for all levels of experience. I also love the plugins and the vast creative community templates both free and paid and resources that have been developing on this platform for many years. With enough muster and enthusiasm, you can create professional websites and this can become your bread and butter career. Especially if you intend to do freelance work.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

The only downside I still see regarding Wordpress, is the steep learning curve. It is still a developmental platform. Any tech platform requires hours, weeks and months of practice in order to master or even just to get to a competent level. A beginner would need a lot of patience. For non-beginners, you need a lot of patience as well, when it comes to resources and templates you've purchased, that don't work perfectly or exactly as you've predicted or envisioned.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since Wordpress is probably the most popular CMS (Content Management System) available, this is the platform I chose for a number of projects on my pipeline.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 15, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DW
Dan W.
Editor
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"My preferred blogging software for 14 years but it is so much more"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The intuitive workflow, the constant development, the community and the huge variety of plug ins.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Sometimes with 3rd pug ins you really have to pick and choose what you implement.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is my everyday publishing platform both for business and personal blogging. I wouldn't look elsewhere

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 14, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Thomas B. avatar
Thomas B.
Associate Attorney
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"Nice Site to Use For Blogging"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

The interface is super easy to use and everything is pretty simple to follow. Easy to write on there and solid for the eyes as well, which gets overlooked by a lot of people.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

It's not as easy to monetize as Blogger, which could be a challenge for some.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

My experience has been that it's a lot more difficult to monetize through Wordpress than some of the other options out there.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SP
Sekate P.
Laboratory Technician
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"CMS Guru "
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is so organised. Can create any kind of site from blog, landing page, eCommerce, news site and others. You can switch between templates and WordPress adjusts the presentation of your saved data to the selected template

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

If you update wordpress and the installed theme or plugins are not compatible with the update, the site crashes horribly.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wordpress sites can be generated and fully functional in a very short time

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MJ
Marcus J.
System Manager
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"“WordPress.org- my preferred posts publishing software”"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Marketing your site services is not an easy task. However, WordPress.org has made it easier for me to market my website services online. I like this software because publishing of posts for public view in the blog is easy and convenient. Second, WordPress.org is SEO friendly and thus all my published posts are well ranked in search engines. Third, publishing of posts is easy and doable anywhere provided there is good internet connectivity. There are also plugins that are easy to install and uninstall in and from WordPress.org, and this ensures that the software is fully optimized and working well. Last, WordPress.org is well structured, mobile-friendly and designed with an excellent user interface.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Having been a user of WordPress.org for 2 years now, I can only say that its downsides are very few. It is very frustrating once some plugins are installed in WordPress.com as they interrupt the site functionality and can even mess the whole thing. In such a case, technical experts are needed to rectify/ fix the error and this might be costly. The other direct issue is WordPress.org is a direct target by hackers who want to manipulate site information, this is very risky. Last is that the software cannot work without an internet connectivity.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Site capability, content marketing, SEO, site management, and cost related problems have been adequately solved by using WordPress.org. At DoMyClassWork, we have greatly benefited from using this software in that our published posts are ranked high in google search engines. The other benefit is cost saving as the costs of maintaining WordPress.org are low. Our site capability has also been improved as we have access to many plugins that we can install or uninstall to improve site capability and functionality.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AM
Amal M.
Php Developer
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"Best Resource for creating CMS Website"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Wordpress is the easy way to create custom cms websites with in no time. its simple and efficient and have many custom themes are available which are both free and paid ones. these themes are easily customization and according to our needs. not only for simple cms website wordpress provides much more on the go such as e-commerce plat form is simple with wordpress woo-commece plugin and lot more too.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

according to its functionality its a nice framework but using free plugins and thems may cause security issues becouse hackers may access attempt to these free once otherwise its nice and secure

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

creating cms website fast

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Thomas R. avatar
Thomas R.
Principal Ceo
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"The best of its kind"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Wordpress is very intuitive and easy to use, if there is something you do not know how to use it you look for any tutorial and that's how simple you learn, since it's very easy to use and learn in wordpress.I love the integration of api, it is also very easy to make a web page for free, or make a blog in a simple way from wordpress. It is a great help for all people and I feel good and I like to use wordpress.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

I really like wordpress, if there is something I do not like is that it is at the time of making some changes to the blog or also when updating the templates, some changes are made without notice,That is why they should announce the changes they will make or that will be presented in our blog or web pages when the template is updated. but other than that, I think there are no other problems

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Now I can make my blog easily, and it is a way of communicating some personal and business ideas, it is also easy to make web pages from wordress and that makes the whole process of creating web pages and blog more efficient and faster. Wordpress has helped me a lot and I recommend it to all people because it is a great tool available to everyone.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AB
Antony B.
Designer
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"Unlimited website software "
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

You can build almost anything with the software. I'm happy with the range of options wordpress gives me

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

New posts builder has ruined the design, classic post writer is much easier to use.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building clients websites is very easy, especially with certain themes

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
NP
Noemi P.
Assistant Web Developer
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"Made Our Website Creation Easier"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Easy to install. Fully integrated with cPanel through Softaculous. Can set any kind of permalink (url structure) we want for SEO purposes. Easy integration with 3rd party apps and tools. Easy cloning and migration if we want to test out other hosting providers. Full of optimization options with plugins or manual coding.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Constant updates for security and bugfixes from most plugins. We have disabled auto updates for wordpress core and plugins to avoid website errors from incompatibilities.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customization and extreme flexibility, and also, massive support from 3rd party plugins we used.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 07, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DC
Dubai C.
Mrs
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"Best Platform to Create Website Easily "
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

Most of the hosting companies provides WordPress free to install. Large number of themes and plugins when compare other platforms. User friendly and easy to add contents (Drag & Drop Features). Great Feature is SEO. If we install SEO Plugins, it help us to achieve top in search engines.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

New Gutenberg version feels little tough. Overall WordPress is Good.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

SEO ranking increased for my website and that way got lot of new clients from all over the world. Easy Drag and Drop method. Without Coding skills i created awesome website.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 06, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Tom T. avatar
Tom T.
Business Coach
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"Very Versatile"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

There are an incredible amount of themes to get you started. With a little research, you will find plugins that will increase your abilities and your speed in creating a great looking website.

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Finding specific formatting parameters such as margins, fonts, footers, headers, etc.. is difficult because their location is not same from theme to theme.

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have to create brochure level websites quickly for clients. The use of themes makes this very easy.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
TS
Ty S.
Company Owner
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"Reasons I Went With WordPress.org"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress is the HOME of customizable input! When I say that I mean whatever type of image or creative layout you have in your mind that you want your site to be like; it can be done here! There is by far soooo much widgets you could use to get your site looking up to date. The technology behind WordPress would have your website or business page looking like one of a kind. I love the fact your not so limited to what you can do or apply on WordPress

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

The main issue I ran into at first was getting my domain attached to my website. That issue only came up due to how WordPress promoted new users to join their platform. I feel like there needs to be a better tool widgets to edit the layouts of your site. I do feel the prices could be better!

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working with and joining WordPress platform helped me gain more control to my site. The tools helped me push my site to the next level. Everything I wanted to see and add to my site was 100% possible threw WordPress.org. "A vision turned into a site "

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 04, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
CW
Celeste W.
Ceo
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"The only platform I will ever use"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

So many things to choose from. The large number of plugins is my biggest deciding factor when looking for a blog platform

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Wish they would offer more for free with Jetpack plugin for those that are using the self hosted option

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basic website and blog creation

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 02, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Octa G. avatar
Octa G.
Ingeniero De Desarrollo De Software
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"Hace el trabajo mas fácil "
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

WordPress es una herramienta muy utilizada actualmente por diseñadores gráficos y personas que se dedican a la realización de blog o sitios web ya que es muy sencilla usarla y es super creativa, nos ayuda a realizar trabajos profesionales en cuestión de horas, lo que me gusta de ella son sus diversos temas y su facilidad e uso, al principio creí que era difícil, pero lo cierto es que es muy sencilla, te ayuda en todo momento, te da recomendaciones sobre que colocar en tu entrada principal y es re-ajustable y puedo editarla de manera fácil y rápida

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

Actualmente lo único que puede disgustarme es el costo de un dominio, del resto todo es sencillo y facil, incluso hasta hay variedad de videos en la web de como usarla,

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

Actualmente tenia que realizar un blog personal de inmediato, no sabia que hacer, así que investigue y me encontré con este maravillosos programa, al momento que inicie lo vi complicando pero a medida que iba indagando mas el resultado fue que es aun mas fácil que realizar proyectos en html

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 02, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Intellectyx I.
Executive
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"Wordpress is best CMS platform for managing website & blog"
What do you like best about WordPress.org?

We have been using wordpress to manage our blog Intellectyx. We are really happy with the performance of wordpress. Talking about the pros of this software, the first that comes in my mind is ease of using this tool. I did not have much technical knowledge but still I can easily customize our wordpresst them and can manage publishing of new blog. Also the free plugins like yoast that helps me to successfully manage SEO of my blog. Overall I have great experience so far with this tool

What do you dislike about WordPress.org?

This tool has done best for what we invested our time & money so have no issues

What problems is WordPress.org solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software is helping us to manage our blog effectively. It saves our time as we need not to hire an expert to handle blogging. We can easily manage everything without least assistance from developers which saves our team time also this tool is helping us with SEO

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