WordPress

RATING:

4.56

(14623)

About WordPress

WordPress is an open-source, cloud-based content management system based on PHP and MySQL that helps small to large businesses create, manage and publish content for websites. The customizable solution allows enterprises to use plugins, widgets, and themes to improve traffic-driven content across multiple websites. Features of WordPress include a content manager, a drag-and-drop interface, templates, dynamic page generation, password protection, multi-page posts, previewing and publishing. It comes with a drag-and-drop file uploader and media browser, which allows users to upload and store pictures, music, videos, documents and more. Additionally, it provides auto-saving and restoring functionalities for businesses to automatically save and restore crucial data in ...

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WordPress Pricing

Wordpress offers a free plan (3GB storage), as well as paid plans: Personal plan: €4/month (billed yearly) with 6GB of storage and a custom domain name. Premium plan: €8/month (billed yearly) with 13GB of storage, a custom domain name, and monetization options. Business plan: €25/month (billed yearly) with unlimited storage space, a custom domain name, and a range of additional features including plugins, Wordpress branding removal, and more.

Starting price: 

€4.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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WordPress Reviews

Overall Rating

4.56

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for WordPress

1 - 5 of 14,422 Reviews

Brianna

1 employee

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

Reviewed March 2023

Great for Upgrading from Drag and Drop, Not for Everyone

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Tayyab

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2020

Develop Instant Website for any Company

I am a blogger and using WordPress since 2018 and find it very helpful. I can manage the whole team easily and efficiently. It provides me whole features to design and develop my website without any hustle. I am very satisfied with the WordPress platform because it helping me a lot without taking my extra time.

PROS

WordPress is one of the best platforms that allow us to develop our own website for free. The dashboard of the platform is quite easy and attractive. The Integration level of WordPress is on the next level because it can easily integrate any plugin by just a simple search in the plugin option. It is very secure as well as easy to use with a simple interface.

CONS

Updates are the biggest cons of WordPress in which there is the possibility of losing data. Sometimes it is difficult to find the related plugin according to your desire then you need to develop custom plugins.

Reason for choosing WordPress

Wordpress's simple interface attracts me than others. The most important thing in blogging is SEO optimization and WordPress allows you to use plugins properly in on-page SEO than other platforms. So, I prefer WordPress to others.

Mohan Manohar

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

Simplify Your Website with WordPress

With large amount of themes, plugins and customisable options one can create a great website with some layman's knowledge of website creation. Users can edit header, function, footer, sidebar php files from back end or from cPanel to make website a completely great in appearances. It provides some of most SEO friendly features such as customisable permalinks, tags, headings, ability to add meta tags into header php files and adding easily to google search by installing google plugins from WordPressd.

PROS

its user friendly interface, amount of customisation options, in built search engine optimisation options, various plugins available for each and every customisations, it has large community to help you out, inbuilt sitemap, mobile responsive, and with wordPress you can built a small blog as well as large ecommerce website.

CONS

Due to its popularity it is most of times darling of hackers and from time to time they try to hack it but its large user community always provide useful and faster help to solve all of these security concerns. due to its constant updates many popular plugins becomes obsolete. It is highly customisable but still it needs certain level of degree of expertise. Many a times some themes becomes heavy and it tends to slow down website and for this you need to reduce use of plugins, heavier theme, imae optimisation and hosting and change of hosting.

Reason for choosing WordPress

Wix website development is very high on CPU, and it needs large amount of technical efficiency and it comes with a large costing and it is costlier than WordPress too. In the case with Joomla, it is not very user friendly and it needs high efficiency of a developer in coding unlike WordPress which is very user friendly and even a lay man can create a professional website with complete ease.

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Samridh

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1,000 employees

Used less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2019

Wordpress as a Designer/user

It was neutral to positive experience for me using wordpress. Since I have an engineering and programming background I was able to do quite a bit in a short amount of time. It is a great platform to use for someone who is looking to just have a simple website with basic information and nothing complex. I think it is very intuitive and useful for bloggers.

PROS

I used this software to build a website for a Non-Profit foundation for some fundraising events. I got an account with Bluehost server and wordpress was included in it. For someone who has never built a website before, wordpress did make my life very very easy. It has numerous features that can definitely help a novice like me get a basic website up and running. I enjoyed the following things while using this - Themes It comes with some basic theme templates which can be used to build the website. Just fill in some information that relates to your website and it will populate it. Think of it as a powerpoint template with boxes and design - Easy to upload pictures I was able to create folders and stores pictures on there and name them accordingly so I can go back and use them on different pages. - Widgets and Plugins The main attraction for this software platform I believe is their built in widgets and plugins. You can download from so many options. It is kind of like exploring the app store on your phone. Since it is an open source lot of users create their own widgets and plugins which are either free or you can purchase it. Needless to say purchased ones are much better but I got by with all free ones. - Edit code yes if you are a very savvy css html developer and you understand the code, you can go in and change their code and make adjustments. Warning: Don't mess with it if you don't know what you are doing

CONS

The cons that i noticed in my website after it went live was - Speed The website was just slow. I am not sure if it is because of the widgets and plugins running on wordpress but I hated the speed. - Updates could ruin website Their themes get constantly updated so if you do not update it properly or if the new build released has a bug on it, it could mess up certain things on your website. This happened to many times where the plugins that worked fine on the older build wouldn't work the same on the new. - Time consuming for beginners Yeah it's not as simple as I was expecting it to be. I did spend quite an amount of time understanding the features and how to make best use of them. It was a lot of trial and error so be ready to put in some work at least.

Anne Sofie

Market Research, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

WordPress - An Outstanding Website Building Tool

Overall, WordPress is an outstanding website building tool that has been a staple of the web development community for years. Its user-friendly interface, powerful features, and customization options make it a great choice for anyone looking to build a website.

PROS

WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform that is incredibly easy to use. Even for novice website builders, WordPress is a great option. It's powerful enough to handle complex websites, yet simple enough to be user-friendly. It also offers a variety of themes and plugins, making customization easy and convenient.

CONS

Although WordPress is user-friendly, it can be difficult to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. Additionally, WordPress can be a bit slow at times, which can be frustrating.

Reasons for switching to WordPress

WordPress is widely considered to be one of the best website building tools on the market. It offers a wide variety of features and customization options, and it is incredibly user-friendly. Additionally, WordPress is more secure than many of its alternatives, making it a great choice for those looking for a secure website building platform.