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WordPress is a web publishing content management software used to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is CMS software designed for everyone, emphasizing accessibility, performance, security, and ease of use. We believe great software should work with minimum set up, so you can focus on sharing your story, product, or services freely. The basic WordPress content management system software is simple and predictable so you can easily get started. It also offers powerful features for growth and success. WordPress contributors work around the globe and have dedicated countless hours to build a tool that democratizes publishing. WordPress is an open source CMS software that is both free and priceless.

WordPress
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United States
5 Industries
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LICENSING & DEPLOYMENT

  • Open Source
  • Cloud Hosted
  • On Premises
  • Web-based
  • iPhone/iPad
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Mac

SUPPORT

  • Email
  • 24x7 Support

Knowledge Base

  • Help Guides
  • Video
  • Blog

Wordpress Core Features

Website Builder

  • Auto Update
  • Drag & Drop
  • E-commerce Management
  • Import/Export Content
  • Landing Pages/Web Forms
  • Real Time Editing
  • Responsive Website
  • SEO Management
  • Survey Builder
  • Templates & Themes

Content Management

  • Analytics
  • Content Publishing
  • Customizable Templates
  • Form Builder
  • Media Management
  • Multilingual
  • SEO Management
  • Website Management

Desktop Publishing

  • Graphic Tools
  • Layout Tools
  • Professional Publishing
  • Sharing
  • Templates
  • Text Tools

Blog

  • Analytics & Insights
  • Collaborative Writing
  • Commenting System
  • Performance Tracking
  • Post Management
  • Sharing & Distribution
  • Search & Discovery
  • User Management
  • WYSIWYG Editor

Statistical Analysis

  • Compliance Tracking
  • Data Management
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Statistical Simulation

Web Analytics

  • Conversion Tracking
  • Dashboard
  • Multiple Site Management
  • Pageview Tracking
  • Referral Source Tracking
  • Time on Site Tracking
  • User Interaction Tracking

Product Configurator

  • CRM Integration
  • eCommerce Integration
  • Inventory Management

Wordpress Pricing

Pricing Type

  • Free

Payment Frequency

  • Monthly Payment
  • Annual Subscription

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It\'s beginner-friendly

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Without any doubt, the best content management software that I have personally used is WordPress. It's beginner-friendly, it allows plenty of customization and the plugins allow you to add virtually all features and functionalities that you could ever need on a website.

Matt Schmidt

We are Highly SATISFIED with Wordpress!

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Wordpress has made it so simple to create a website, and constantly update it with new content. Our team at https://www.diabetes365.org can't say enough good things! Thank you for helping us grow our brand!
Michelle Kubot

Wordpress is still what I use for my websites

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As Vice President of Marketing of Ambrosia Treatment Center, here are my thoughts regarding WordPress:

Wordpress is free and extremely robust. It can do anything you need it to do. There are thousands of plugins and themes pre-built to make the CMS do and look how you want. 

The problem with that kind of depth is that things can be complicated. Many hosting providers now have versions of Wordpress that are much lighter for non-technical users.

Pam Brossman

I love it and would not use anything else.

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I have been using Wordpress to grow my global business -  PamBrossman.com for over 10 years. It has evolved into a very sophisticated and easy to use platform that accommodates all my mentoring and marketing needs as technology grows. With developers now creating simple drag and drop interfaces, there has never been an easier content marketing software, in my opinion, than Wordpress.

In fact, it is so easy I build my own websites and I am a technophobe. I use it for content marketing, selling online education and memberships, eCommerce, marketing, list building and business growth globally for my personal brand. The one platform does it all. With just a few extra plugins, I can run my online business from anywhere around the world using Wordpress.

Anthony Bianco

I\'m most comfortable and familiar with Wordpress

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As a founder of my own travel site - The Travel Tart, the experience of WordPress has been excellent. People run into problems if they don't update the installation and plugins regularly. I like how it's SEO friendly out of the box, plus you can add a load of functionality to a website with by adding plugins, etc - and do it automatically, e.g. linking, add schema, etc. After using a number of CMSs, I'm most comfortable and familiar with Wordpress.

Pulkit Gera

Our experience with Wordpress has been great.

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We currently use it to run our content marketing blog(Blogging Done Better) and plan to extend it with a shopping cart and affiliate program in the future.

We chose Wordpress because it's a well coded, lightweight and secure software with near infinite customization ability and a very large community of passionate coders and developers working behind the scenes to make it more awesome.

It's easy to use interface makes using it a breeze, even if you've never used Wordpress before. And if you get stuck anywhere, you can find answers from the large community or by simply running a web search.

The only (small) negative with Wordpress is that, to extend its capabilities, you need to select the right plugin, usually from thousands of options. So while having a large number of options is great, it can also get overwhelming and choosing the right plugins can sometimes take quite a while.

John Breese

Nice and Simple

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Pros:

Wide variety of plugins available. Whatever problem you want to solve or functionality you want to add to your website, there’s probably a plugin to do that.

Easy navigation and user-friendly design. Even if you’re an inexperienced user, you can publish a new article or edit the existing one without much effort.

Large support community. In case one of the plugins installed doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, there’s a forum where your fellow WordPress users can help you solve the problem.

 

Cons:

Vulnerability. It’s not uncommon for WordPress site owners to fall victim to hackers. There’s a number of plugins you can install to protect yourself from that, but this doesn’t guarantee 100% security.

Low speed. WordPress is ideal for smaller websites, but when you start attracting higher traffic, the website speed might decrease.

 

To sum up:

As a CEO of Happysleepyhead, I personally feel WordPress is nice and simple. This CMS works great for blogs, news platforms, and corporate sites with low or medium traffic. If you run a high-traffic website, you may face the need to do a lot of changes to the existing system or -- which is more reasonable -- create your own infrastructure.

Andrei Vasilescu

SEO friendly

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As a Co-Founder and CEO of DontPayFull, here are my thoughts regarding WordPress:

Pros of WordPress:

User-friendly: WordPress is equipped with a very strong content management system and that is why it is very easy to navigate through the contents and pages of a WordPress website.

Countless Plugins: WordPress users can easily enhance the functionality of their websites by gearing up with over 50,000 plugins and most of the WordPress plugins are absolutely free.

SEO friendly: Every business website is continuously supported by different digital marketing procedures and WordPress websites respond best to any kind of SEO techniques.

Mobile responsive: Today every business website need to be opened and surfed through mobile devices and WordPress offers a huge array of mobile responsive themes for websites.

Open source: Being open-source software, programmers can change and redistribute the source code of WordPress which saves a lot of time and cost of developing the website.

 

Cons of WordPress:

Updates may cause trouble: Updates are essential to keep the WordPress website secure and WordPress themes are frequently updated. But these updates might cause small problems in properly running the websites.

Considerably vulnerable: Being open-source software, potential hackers find it easy to intrude in WordPress websites. If plugins are not carefully checked before installing, WordPress websites become vulnerable.

Plugins decrease speed: WordPress themes and plugins contain a good number of generic codes. So these plugins usually decrease the site speed and increase the loading time of the website.

Overall experience is positive

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As a Digital Marketer of CS Team, here are my opinions regarding WordPress:

Wordpress is surely one of the most popular CMS currently present because is free, simple to use and adaptable to various needs and devices. Wordpress is also adapted for all the search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo…) and has a lot of functions to improve the SEO.

But it lacks some things: for example, since the introduction of GDPR, if you want to create a blog in the European zone or that interact with it you have to download a plug-in for GDPR, plug-in that is not already present at the beginning.

Also, by its very nature of free software, some of the features are locked, and you have to pay for them, because the features locked are often more attractive of the free ones, and this could bring potential users to address to other CMS.

Moreover, the menu might be sometimes hard to understand, especially for beginners, and some features aren’t very clear.

In the end, the overall experience is positive, even if there might be some confusion with some features.

Ketan Pande

Site look good in the eye of the google

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Pros:

1. A commonly known advantage of Wordpress is that it's very easy to use and it's a great platform for beginners and people with no coding knowledge. But as a founder of GoodVitae, I feel that one of the great pros of WordPress is that it sticks and promotes white hat methods and guides users to follow international compliances. Like, if you add an external link, it by default adds 'noreferrer', which addresses security vulnerabilities, plus makes the site look good in the eye of the google. Also, when GDPR was rolled out, WordPress guided its user to build a strong and clear privacy policy page.
 
2. Wordpress has a huge userbase. Thus developers around the world have developed plugins for almost all the needs of a user, which makes it easier, cheaper, and time-saving for the user to build a website from scratch.
 
Cons:

1. Plugins are advantageous, but sometimes they can do harm. You can't avoid plugins on WordPress if you really want to build a website with multiple functions and widgets. But, these plugins sometimes makes your site vulnerable to external threats. Recently, the yellow pencil plugin exposed 30000 users to attackers, which makes the Wordpress a less safe CMS.

Overall experience:
It's a good experience, and it's easy to operate. With no coding skill, I was able to develop a site which is SEO friendly. Also, Wordpress allows me to stick to my work, while not spending much time on coding or other time-consuming activities.

Audrey Strasenburgh

Beneficial platform

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As an SEO Strategist of LogoMix, below is my experience of using WordPress:

 A major benefit of using WordPress is the ability to create any type of site for any type of industry thanks to its hundreds of thousands of available themes. WordPress can also support the integration of other third-party tools, such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, social media pixels, heatmapping tools, email marketing platforms, and more.

The downside of using WordPress is the platform's vulnerability to cyber attacks. Currently, over 20% of the world's websites were built using WordPress, which makes the CMS as an easy target for hackers and viruses. Not many website owners know how to defend their WP website from attacks. It can be as simple as downloading and activating a free security plugin or updating to the latest version of WP.

David Sanchez

Stable basic skeleton that allows you to build and customize a website however you want

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It is a stable basic skeleton that allows you to build and customize a website however you want. The marketing capabilities are endless!

Experience of using WordPress - Pros, Cons, and Overall
Pros: Very flexible. There are thousands of plugins that you can use to do anything. I love the page builder plugins that allow you to drag and drop a web design visually. Also, the security features are endless to prevent hackers and spammers. As a CEO of Mammoth Web Solutions, I have designed new Wordpress sites for clients (and myself) and immediately tripled organic traffic from Google overnight because Wordpress is so SEO friendly.

Cons: There is a learning curve, but if you're stuck you can always hire a Wordpress consultant to point you in the right direction.

Experience: You're only limited by your own creativity and knowledge of different tools.

Sarah Blocksidge

Most user-friendly interface

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I have had nothing but a great experience using WordPress, we use it on our own site(Sixth City Marketing), and also recommend it for all of our website development projects. It’s the most user-friendly interface that also allows the most flexible in terms of design, development, etc. Not to mention, it’s fully customizable with a variety of plugins that even further make it easier for those who have little to no background in updating websites.

Kurt Uhlir

Best choice for a content management system

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I've been part of implementing WordPress at thousands of organizations from single-person companies to large publicly traded corporations. As Chief Marketing Officer of Showcase IDX, WordPress is always my choice for a content management system when possible. It's built for both personal use and can easily scale to handle millions of visitors per day. There are tons of free and low-cost resources for learning the platform, and anyone that can use Gmail can easily learn to update a site and add new content.

There are only two downsides that I've seen with WordPress. Some smaller companies will begin using a "budget" web host for $5 - $8 per month. While these plans can run WordPress, the server response time is consistently poor and can be hard to ever rank a website and grow the audience. With more than 55,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, choosing a poorly optimized plugin can have a negative effect on the experience too.

Lewis Thomas

Best platform to create an online business

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As an owner of Hostsorter, I am writing out my experience regarding WordPress as follow:

After making WordPress websites for 9 years now and as a full-time internet marketer, I have found WordPress to be the best platform to create an online business, whether that be an e-commerce store or a travel blog.

Another advantage of using WordPress is that you can easily mold it to your websites needs and growth. What's even better is that WordPress is a completely free platform with thousands of plugins and themes at your fingertips, which at times can almost be a downside as there are so much to choose from!

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