WordPress
What Is WordPress?
Open source software that is free to use for creating blogs and websites. Read lessWho Uses WordPress?
Anyone creating or requiring a modern web presence.
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Reviews of WordPress
Ron
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Best CMS Software
Comments: I use Wordpress every day, it's functionality is perfect for anyone without a coding background like myself. I love that I can constantly update my site, publish content, and have a cutting edge design without having any advanced knowledge. To be honest, I couldn't live without it and I'm grateful that I can use it daily to work from my computer.
Pros:
Wordpress is absolutely the best CMS software on the market. It's no wonder such a large percentage of websites use it to publish content. I see people make the mistake of using a competitor over and over and have frustrations. This is especially true, in the blogging and content creation realm. The functionality and plug and play aspect of building a website is the best of the best.
Cons:
There aren't many issues I have with WP itself. Occasionally if you decide to go with a theme that isn't updated by the author or developer then you may have an issue with that particular theme, but keeping an eye on the updates and choosing one that is great in design, functionality, and is consistently updated is an easy way to overcome this.
Romaric
Wordpress
Comments: WordPress helps me to maintain a nice & smooth web design experience and enables me to remain responsive as per meeting up with our client's project expectations. It's really a nice CMS and I highly recommend it to every web design aspirant.
Pros:
WordPress is the most flexible and easy-to-work-with CMS I've used so far. I tried out other alternatives like Drupal and others, but WordPress makes the entire web-building experience easy.The tool is beginner friendly and supports a lot of third-party plugins which broadens its functionality, making my designs look great.There are many documents (provided by wordpress.org) for beginners who are just getting started and kin of help to minimize the apprenticeship process.I can't emphasize enough the flexibility I have when working on my projects (and clients') with WordPress. As a matter of, it's a tool I can't do without.
Cons:
One major problem with WordPress is that there is no live support--the only place to get the support it's the community forum which isn't guaranteed (as support is provided by random users).
Elisabeth
Not very user friendly, especially for beginners
Comments: Overall, I didn't like WordPress. I ended up switching to another platform to host my website because it was just too complicated to manage.
Pros:
I liked that WordPress is essentially unlimited when it comes to what you can do visually. You can really create any type of site or webpage and the sky is the limit. WordPress also has many widgets and add-ons available for any type of feature because of its widespread use.
Cons:
WordPress was NOT user friendly, especially for beginners. When using it, I was completely new to web design and started with WordPress because I knew the name and knew that many people used it, but I found it just utterly confusing to get started. Building anything on my site took ages and there was very little about it that was intuitive.
Luke
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Wordpress is by far the best website platform and is highly customisable
Comments: I love Wordpress and there is no other platform like it!
Pros:
I have used Wordpress for myself and my clients for the past 10 years. It's my preferred platform to build websites on due to the amount of customisation I can make, unlike other platforms such as Shopify which is a lot more difficult and costly. Wordpress feels like a platform where there are no limits to what you can do.
Cons:
Woocommerce can be a bit expensive with plugins, but I can make customisations myself unlike Shopify. The dashboard could also do with a refresh to make it more friendly for clients to use. I have had a few websites that have been hacked over the years so I would like to see better security on Wordpress.
Festus
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Comments: With this platform, we can easily build websites, landing pages, squeeze pages, forms easily without writing any lines of code. this by far saved us time and money.
Pros:
1. easy to use2. completely free3. easy integration with multiple platforms 4. multiple possibilities5. constant updates and maintenance6. large array of third party integrations are possible
Cons:
1. the security is not that strong as hackers find it easy to penetrate and bring down websites built on wordpress.
