WordPress Reviews

Pros

I've been growing with this platform as a developer and entrepreneur. It has been an amazing journey so far because it has shifted from a "blog platform" to a "do whatever you want with it" platform. In my company we've already worked with SO many different project - and some really big. The flexibility of WordPress is amazing and if we know how to work with it, this can be very powerful! I'm obviously referring to the open-source solution, not the wordpress.com version.

Cons

The well known cons are related to the way WP saves information into database and how it works with it. That's basically the biggest problem with it. But that's also something that when we know what we are doing, we can actually play with our own tables or even our separate database, Everything is possible!

Pros

The ability to interstate other applications

Cons

It was tough learning as a beginner. You have to go to YouTube to get a visual of what to do or it’s trial and error until you figure it out.

Pros

Highly customizable with extensive knowledge and experience

Cons

Doesn't work out the box, needs a lot of customization and configuring in order to work properly, not for Complete beginners.

Alternatives Considered

OpenCart and Google Cloud

Reasons for Choosing WordPress

LightCMS was too Proprietary making it too hard to customize and had the same learning curve as Wordpress, just with too many customization restrictions, so it made sense for me to switch.

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

They all fell short in one way or another.

Pros

Overall best web hosting platform. Access to plugins for every solution. Lots of public documentation to learn from/use.
Lots of developers out there.
Lots of features with baseline product.

Cons

Needs a plugin for everything.
It can be very difficult to reach peak design & functionality.
Very easy to set up basic site.

Pros

I use WP with Divi - a template website builder. WP seems to me to be robust, kept uptodate and its dashboard is intuitive to use. Whilst some website design knowledge is necessary to use this well, an enthusiastic novice would get by.

Cons

I sometimes struggle with adding blog posts - it seems to be more clunky than it needs to be - but maybe there are quicker ways and I haven't found them yet.

Alternatives Considered

Squarespace

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

I used Squarespace to build a site for someone else - I prefer WP for my own site.

Pros

Wordpress is the go-to if you plan on implementing advanced SEO into your website and if you plan to scale your business. Aside from this key aspect, I love Wordpress for it's customizability as well as features that can be accessed to make at website, blog, online shop high level.

Cons

Additional cost for customizable themes as well as challenge with setting up website and editing code if this is something you are not familiar with and prefer not to use template creator plug-ins like Elementor, etc. Elementor is amazing for this though! Wordpress is also expensive to maintain a website through with a host as after the first initial year, prices skyrocket, which can be a challenge for a brand new business. The only option to prevent this is to change hosts, however, this can create additional challenges with keeping a domain name and also additional costs to keep your existing website live through another host provider.

Pros

Working as a mobile app developer, I found the mobile-friendly designs available on WordPress.com appealing. I could assure you that I am comfortable whether it is a blog or a portfolio as long as you are able to present it beautifully. Little do they know, even the blogging abilities built into the software are great – helping with writing articles and posting news.

Cons

From a developers point of view, I found the customization options a bit restrictive. There were some missing pieces when it came to micromanaging designing. Beyond this, the basic plan has many limitations on how many plugins and themes can be installed, which was somewhat annoying.

Pros

WordPress has two major "Pros", themes and plugins. To deploy an WordPress setup is a easy task, every hosting company has a WordPress installer that makes this in under 1 minute. Themes are available in large numbers, free or premium witch can transform a simple WordPress setup into a powerful shop, or everything you want. Plugins are another important features that WordPress offers, with these you can increase website, speed, functionalities and SEO.

Cons

If you want your website to be fast you will need a powerful hosting or VPS.

Pros

WordPress has been an excellent tool for us as we build our website platform for an international online community.

Cons

We are heavy users of plugins and the plugins (now counting over 50 in our website structure and functionality) have made the website very heavy and slow to load. This has penalized us on Google and is a disadvantage.

Pros

There is a lot of information in the guide materials and community, so there is no difficulty in learning.

The price is relatively cheap.

Easy to customize.

Cons

There are enough materials to learn, but it takes time to learn at first compared to other solutions.

Plug integration sometimes has errors and is complicated.

Alternatives Considered

Wix and Shopify

Switched From

Shopify

Pros

The best thing about Wordpress is that you have complete freedom over the design of your website and there are easy to use plugins to help you achieve your vision even if you don't have a background in web design . The new Gutenberg editor allows you to use blocks to build beautiful blog posts and web pages.

Cons

There isn't really anything to dislike about Wordpress. In the beginning there was a bit of a learning curve. I had to do research on a few things to get them exactly how I wanted. But that is to be expected anyways.

Alternatives Considered

Wix

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

After a lot of research I ultimately chose Wordpress because it seemed to have the greatest number of features, functionality and versatility.

Pros

Wordpress has been a go to source for me, mainly for my blog but there is so much you can do ! The templates are amazing and just like all of wordpress very user friendly you dont have to know how to code to use wordpress. Visually pleasing and so many plug ins to take your blog or online shop, real estate listing site or forum or heck even a scheduling plug in, so many additional things you can add or use to make using wordpress an amazing experience! Ilove the fact that also if you have your own website you can manage and moderate all your content or if you have more than one blog mange those from a dashboard all on one spot! The analytics are all right there also and being able to breakdown site traffic etc is a must. This is a must have and if you research even more you'll see all the amazing ways you to can use this little gem!

Cons

I'm gonna have to stretch on this one as I dont really have alot of complaints so if I had to list any would be making sure to look for updates and that us a stretch lol I love wordpress!

Alternatives Considered

Squarespace

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

In the end as I have other choices I've signed up for and purchased it was the one I kept coming back to. Its ease of use and all additional plug ins etc won me over.

Pros

Wordpress is the industry standard anything from blogging to running complex websites and eCommerce setups. And that's not without a reason. It's easily expanded, has a gigantic ecosystem of free and paid plugins and extensions around it and expanding it yourself is easy as well.
Also, with WordPress being written in framework-less PHP, it's easy to find skilled developers to extend and customize it to fit your needs.

Cons

With greate extendability comes the potentia for great maintenance issues.
Relying too much on the WordPress plugin ecosystem or external developers can lead you down a rabbit hole of problems with scaling, maintaining and updating your WordPress instance.
It's really easy to build a site that superficially works but when you take a closer look see that it's riddled with performance and security issues and can't be updated to the next version because a plugin would break that would take your whole site down.
Even worse when you only realise these issues when it's already too late, which happens a lot in the WordPress market.

Pros

Easier to install and build a web with a few clicks, adds-on, plugins are awesome which make the website with advanced feature, page management, discussion forum can be configured. Search engine optimization tools are pre built in, and easily integrated with social media plate form like, Facebook, twitter and YouTube etc.. File manager and development with coding is easier by many shortcut and WPs own defined codes/scripts, wide open support is available for development or customization.

Cons

Many bugs are found even in paid plugins, some plugins are vulnerable for website, i.e. no plugin scanned while published it to WP store. Installation configuration directory is not auto removed which can be used to attack, while admin panel access on directory is not random logarithm based, i.e. many times admin panel can be tried.

Pros

I like that wordpress is compatible with so many amazing plugins. Yoast SEO has saved me hours on keyword research and making sure my article has a good chance to rank in the google search index. And the editor that Wordpress comes with for blogging allows me to easily organize my thoughts into sentences because of how clean it looks.

Cons

The themes that come with the free version of WordPress are not to my liking. I have seen some nice premium themes but the stock ones look very childish and don't feel like a website when I visit my site from another device. When I get some more money I will be sure to invest in some more full looking themes.

Alternatives Considered

Web.com, Squarespace and SITE123

Reasons for Choosing WordPress

I switched to WordPress because I heard it was the best option for people who want flexibility with their website. I saw some YouTubers who also had some deals with web hosting that was compatible with WordPress for a good price.

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

I chose WordPress because it has the most flexibility and the best plugins to help me manage my website and get it ranking in google.

Pros

WordPress has evolved over the years. Since the first time in 2012 when I started using this software as a blogging and minimum value website design tool to this day in 2021; I have personally witnessed the tremendous transformation of this CMS; especially the sophistications that are now inbuilt to follow the MVC framework. It's been really rewarding.

Not to talk of the vast assortment of plugins that extends the functionality of the CMS. Sincerely, WordPress is really worth every penny, if sold.

Cons

The bloated nature of third-party plugins that are not properly coded which creates loopholes for security breaches in a person's site.

Alternatives Considered

Drupal and Joomla

Reasons for Choosing WordPress

When Adobe bought over Dreamweaver, web development became a little cumbersome for me because of the UI/UX frameworks they introduced in the IDE.

Switched From

Apache NetBeans

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

WordPress was easy to set up for me. Unlike Joomla that had some bit of technicalities in its deployment, WordPress could be deployed within 5 minutes and you're good to go.

Pros

WordPress is easy! Within 20 minutes, we had our website up and running. With a 30 minute training session, staff was able to post blogs, create pages, create menus and set up forms. Prior to WordPress, setting up a website was a project. With WordPress, website management is a breeze.

Cons

When automatic updates break something, it's not easy to debug. For those users who don't host WordPress themselves, this would be less of an issue. We host WordPress sites ourselves and enable automated updates. Once in a while updates break our site and we have to debug it by logging on to our servers.

Pros

The vast flexibility with different themes and plugins. There are so many themes that I rarely use the same one twice - I can get just the right theme to tailor to my needs for each website. I don't know coding and I don't need to - I have so many professional themes on my hard drive that for me, learning to code seems akin to reinventing the wheel.

There are so many plugins, that if there's something not quite right that I need to fix, my first go to is to look for a plugin for it and I almost always find one. I have many plugins (about a dozen) which I use on every site, and am just used to having them around, so now I'm hooked.

Cons

Like I said before, I'm hooked. I'm too dependent on it, like a driver that can only drive in automatic. If I had to make a website on another platform for whatever reason, I would need to figure out a way to take these WP plugins and incorporate them, because I need them. I'm glad that situation has never come up.

I've met some web designers who do client work (I only build sites for my own business) and they're really snobby about WP, saying its not real web dev or something. Maybe? They say I'm not a real web designer because I only use WP and use purchased themes. Okay, that might be true, but I seriously don't care. I can make stunning professional websites that not only look good and work well but are fast and are great for SEO. Websites that are much better than the ones I would get if I paid some 'real' web developer $800 to build one for me. Websites that are suited exactly to my business needs - including high-converting landing pages: I got 10% conversion on my landing page that I built on WP. I might not be a 'real web designer' because I didn't study coding in a school, but learning WP off Youtube was all it took to learn the skills I needed to run a successful business.

Pros

Because the platform is open source, people can build plugins and templates for the platform. You can purchase templates to make your website look nice and it does have a lot of features - that you can add on, typically with an additional fee. I think it is fantastic for certain types of websites, but if you need advanced functionalities, I would recommend going with a platform that already has those tools, especially if it is eCommerce.

Cons

Don't get me wrong, WordPress is a very popular and easy tool to use - with the right plugins or if you are experienced in coding. However, WordPress is a platform that is very very easy to mess up if you don't know what you are doing.
Additionally, I have found WordPress to be an insecure and easy to hack platform for a few reasons.
1) The updates to the platform itself happen frequently but without much warning to plugin developers, so a plugin can break your site if the platform itself updates.
2) Because it is open source, it is a very popular platform for SQL injection and hacking attacks. Nearly every WordPress website that I currently manage had an experience with hacking, malware, SQL injection and more prior to becoming a client. You need special plugins to keep your site safe. They don't automatically come with it
3) Many newbies at web design don't know that in order for your SEO plugins (the ones that Google likes) to work properly, you actually have to put information in them. They don't work automatically so just having it on the site isn't enough.
4) One bad designer can cause a lot of problems that are not so easy to fix, especially if they mess with things they shouldn't.

Pros

Wordpress is a very well developed, well supported and incredibly flexible platform. It's beauty is in it's ability to work with whatever look, layout or function you or your client may require. I like the fact that it is very regularly and diligently updated by a global team of developers. I like that there are literally millions of web pages devoted to help you work with and on Wordpress. I like that there are a huge number of plugins available to extend the native functionality of the platform. I like that it works so seamlessly with a database, allowing your data to stay secure and accurate while you change everything around it. I like the lightweight themes developed by Wordpress themselves. Oh, and I like that it is a truly globally recognised platform - meaning that you can work with designers, developers, copywriters and art directors from all around the world. Really, it's ease of use as a CMS for clients is a huge plus.

Cons

Wordpress websites do not seem to be quite as lightweight and as fast as websites coded bespoke from scratch in HTML, PHP, CSS and JS. The shear number of updates to themes, core files and plugins can sometimes cause clashes and problems with websites running on the platform. Managing a number of Wordpress websites takes a good deal of will power, resources and time. Adding unusual functionality to a Wordpress website can either be easy and fine . Using a lightweight and well reviewed plugin is a dream, but
it could be an impossible struggle with bloated pages of code and slower loading times, unexpected incompatibility and losing track of numberless subscriptions to seperate products and services.

Pros

A lot of support documentation and help available out there, as many people are using it.

You can do it all for free, or on a shoe string budget, if you are patient enough, as there is a steep learning curve.

No matter what you can think of, someone is probably doing it already with a WordPress site out there somewhere, so you just have to keep looking till you find the right info/help.

Many hosting sites come WordPress 'ready' so you can have a fully installed site in seconds.

A ton of plugins out there, and a lot of them are free... So you can ultimately get what you want/need provided you are willing to experiment, read and try a lot of them.

Cons

A bad plugin can break the entire site, and then is not always a simple click to roll back.

Sometimes plugins do not work together, and there is no easy way to determine root cause or how to resolve.

It's well known, so hackers often find vulnerabilities. That being said, you can always install some security plugins, and go with a hosting site that offers WordPress security.

While you do not need to know how to code, you're going to have to learn some stuff, like making site backups, fixing security vulnerabilities and speeding up the site load time. Fortunately there is a lot of good info out there to help with all of this.

Pros

I like the ease of use and customer service is available in a variety of ways. It is easy for a non-developer and looks professional. Easy to add purchase or donate button. Over all I really like it

Cons

Some of the web pages are hard to change. One customer service agent told me to do it one way and actually changed some things themselves - but it was wrong and very difficult to change. The next customer service agent said it was set up wrong to begin with so those pages had to almost be deleted altogether. Also, there are many answers to the same question I found out - differing customer service agents will send instructions and links to differing ways of doing the same thing. Also, some customer service agents do not read the question in chat - it takes repeating the same question or giving the same answer several times as they do not take time to read

Alternatives Considered

Wix

Reasons for Choosing WordPress

Cost and used wordpress for another company

Switched From

Wix

Reasons for Switching to WordPress

AS above

Pros

- Using WordPress is one of the easiest and fastest ways to set up a website without the need for extra cost for an experienced Web Developer.
- WordPress being a free Content Management System (CMS) handles a lot of things for you. For example Security, Performance, File uploads, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and many more.
- As a part-time Freelance Web Developer, I can actually create any category of a website for my clients, ranging from personal to blog to eCommerce to organizational without having to code anything from scratch. This saves me a lot of time and energy.
- It is widely used and very popular, powering millions of websites. This makes it easy to have online assistance just by Googling the technical issue you face.
- WordPress comes with free and paid website templates that can be integrated directly and has thousands of plugins that permits me to add more functionalities to my clients' websites, all these without coding. Some of these added functionalities include contact form submission, user registration, accepting online payments, newsletter and many more.
- It is so easy to customize or update content found on any webpage of your website.
- One of the greatest features of WordPress is the ability for multiple admin users to be able to work on the website with their accounts created and their roles defined as it is the case in our company (our main university website is powered by WordPress)

Cons

- WordPress requires a database to run.
- WordPress is widely used (powers millions of websites). This makes it vulnerable as a security flaw could be discovered and exploited by malicious individuals.

Pros

Pros for utilizing WordPress
1. Straightforward CMS
This is the greatness of WordPress: how basic and simple to utilize it is. If you are not a creator then moreover you don't have to worry about anything. Indeed, even in a very restricted ability to center, you can get to know the fundamentals of WordPress. This is one of the factors that spread the word. Certainly for me .
Before WordPress, it was a postponed and confusing connection to make a site.
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2. Modules
One of the essential supports for why you should include WordPress as a CMS is in light of the fact that it is maintained by a wide neighborhood gifted creators. As needs be, there are by and by many top WordPress modules for site owners to peruse. The power WordPress File has in excess of 54,000 modules.

3. Website improvement all around arranged

WordPress is the best CMS for Site advancement
1. WordPress solely focus on the experience of the clients
2. It is moreover updated for versatile

4. Functional

It has been referred to on different events that WordPress is an open-source stage. Subsequently you don't have to worry about paying the approving expense to draw near enough to the CMS.

6. Flexibility
The most versatile CMS Online
1. Modules are the most magnificent part of WordPress accepting you want any convenience on your WordPress site that you can without a doubt do with the help of the module.
2. You have limitless power over the point, customizations, .

Cons

Cons of WordPress CMS
1. Weakness
It is significant for you folks to comprehend that WordPress isn't completely secure, well no site is completely secure. The security imperfections of WordPress stretches out to its subjects and modules and it not just remaining parts to WordPress center.

1. SQL Infusion
To work, your WordPress site depends on a MySQL data set.
With a SQL infusion the programmer can make a new administrator level to your client account with that they can get full admittance to your WordPress site and thusly they can login to your WordPress site at whatever point the programmer needs to.

2. Successive Updates
In the event that you have your site on WordPress for quite a while you realize how regular the updates are, and these successive updates could block the usefulness of the modules you are utilizing, i

3 Site crash
At the point when you have introduced various modules for your site and at least two modules are there which are doing likewise work, this prompts struggle occurring among them and that will make your site crash.
The thing with WordPress is that they need to stay an open source stage and accordingly anybody can make, use, alter and share anything they desire to. That implies that sometimes an inadequately coded and vindictive programming appears and that will hurt the site.
4. Site execution and Page speed
Taking everything into account, site proprietors are essentially worried about page load speed.

Pros

Customizability: The platform offers a wide range of customization options, including flexible themes and plugins that allow you to create a unique, professional-looking website without needing to know how to code.Ease of Use: WordPress is known for its ease of use, making it accessible for users with varying levels of technical expertise. This means that even non-technical users can create and manage their website with ease.Search Engine Optimization: WordPress is optimized for search engines, making it easier for your website to rank well in search results and drive traffic to your site.Cost-Effective: WordPress is open-source software, which means it is free to use. This can be a cost-effective option compared to other website building platforms, especially for small businesses.Large Community: WordPress has a large community of users and developers who are eager to help and share their knowledge. This makes it easy to find support and resources when you need them.Overall, WordPress offers a user-friendly, customizable, and cost-effective platform for businesses looking to build and manage a website, and easily integrates with existing sytems

Cons

Security: If not properly maintained, WordPress can have security vulnerabilities. Business users need to be proactive in keeping their site up-to-date and secure to prevent hacking or other security issuesMaintenance: WordPress requires regular updates and maintenance to keep it running smoothly. Business users need to allocate time and resources to maintain their site and keep it running efficiently.These cons are generally minor and can be addressed with proper planning and management. Overall, WordPress is still a strong choice for businesses looking to build and manage a website.