WordPress Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.6 out of 10

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8.6 out of 10

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203 Reviews

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WordPress is Ok

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress as the base for my page builder so that I can get the custom results I am hoping for at that time. I dont have a problem with the templates other than not being a big fan of how they work. Also since I dont do blogging I am really looking for more of a website functionality.

Pros

It accepts page builders well
It manages content very well
It has a lot of add ons both pay for and free

Cons

it gets attacked a lot because of its widespread use
it can be complex if you not careful on how you use it
Addons can cause it to crash

Likelihood to Recommend

Like any other platform, you really have to understand how it works. It is more complicated than a lot of the newer SaaS platforms that are on the market meaning that its easier to get things wrong. The WordPress community is starting to have a lot of politics in it making it a challenge to just do your thing and not get dragged into being on "one side or the other".

Michael Berchak

Owner / Creative at BerchakDesign (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Easy and very customizable web page building

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WordPress for multiple websites in our business. We previously had a different approach to building a webpage, but quickly realized, that many things we wanted to implement were not possible, or we were stuck with that one web designer who were never able to reach. Since switching to WordPress we can change things on the webpage easily, can integrate many other apps and resources by ourselves and have an online presence that seems trustworthy and modern.

Pros

Webpage building
App integration
Web design
Security updates

Cons

Full variability in design
Integration of some apps
Easier to navigate back end

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are a beginner in web design and you want to have your own website without much hassle WordPress is well suited. It is easy to change many things by yourself, easy to add plugins to cater more to your individual needs and cannot be used just as a blog but a full website. If you want a super personalized version not supported by WordPress, than it is obviously not for your business.

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

WordPress for content management

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 21, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress runs our main website, and always non technical people to make post and updates

Pros

content management
dynamic rendering
ability to achieve solution with plugins

Cons

making sure plugins are compatable
insuring that none noncompatible plugins do not apply
Make large file easier to serve up

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for dynamic content management for non technical people. Has to be worked around for serving up large files

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Still one of the most versatile website platforms on the market.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wordpress is our go-to platform for building websites, whether internal intranets, CRM-esque systems, or just full-on B2B or B2C sites. It's our agency-level expertise, and we much prefer it to other systems, including Joomla and Drupal.

Pros

Flexibility for custom coding.
Multiple plugin packages allowing low-code solutions.
Versatile styling options and ease of scaling to different media ratios.
Easy to maintain and update.
Easy to create test environments (host-dependent) and pipelines.

Cons

WPEngine and Wordpress fueding is ridiculous and threatens open source integrity.
The GUI hasn't changed much in years and could afford to be made more modern/condensed.
Allow more flexibility for login customization natively within the system.
It would be great to have more security features enabled without relying on third-party external products.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wordpress is a great solution for a website of nearly any type. It may not be as suitable if a fully custom solution or app is needed, and it does have some limitations when it comes to connecting it to external products (especially if the product doesn't have any support from a native system), and it does require a lot of testing. Multiple plugins in one install are common but also increase the risk of conflicts, and when those do occur, it can be exceptionally time-consuming and tedious to identify what is causing the issue. As third parties create many plugins, you're also at risk with each potential security breach, which needs to be kept in mind. I would be cautious to use WordPress to store any sort of sensitive PPI. That said, it's a wonderful, easily customizable solution for many, many different types of websites and can allow even inexperienced client users with low-tech knowledge to update basics.

Maria Clara Daly

Director of Interactive Strategy in Marketing at Stratacomm (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

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A great CMS for small companies, offering less limitations

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

March 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Several of the agencies and freelancers I manage use WordPress as their chosen CMS for their B2B sites. It serves the purpose of offering a shopfront for them in the online world and giving them flexibility of setup.

Pros

Price point is affordable
Flexibility of the platform is good
Technical capabilities and scalability
SEO can be good

Cons

The amount of flexibility often means that technical foundations can be bad
Lack of vetting or moderation of wordpress themes
Often very liable to attacks from hackers or bots

Likelihood to Recommend

I would certainly recommend WordPress in the context of smaller startups or freelancers with limited funds. The ongoing costs are a lot lower than that of other competitors such as Squarespace, WIX, or Weebly even. Whilst it is not great for D2C and ecommerce it is often a good platform for brochure sites.

Amy Highland

Head of Operations at WIRO Agency (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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WordPress for Websites

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I help some of my customers with their WordPress accounts and find it pretty easy to work with. For the most part, the customer can do some updates on their own and keeping a site current is very important. A nice looking website keeps users engaged and having it up-to-date helps get them to become a prospect.

Pros

Many templates to choose from if you're starting fresh
Many plugins help the business add new features quickly
Adding pictures is mostly quick and simple

Cons

It seems like there are updates too often
Some plugins don't work as hoped

Likelihood to Recommend

If someone needs a new website quickly and wants to make changes often, WordPress is probably their best choice. I've seen other use alternative web site builders but I always warn them to be sure they can move their website if needed. Some places are so integrated with the services background code that it can't run in any other environment.

John Dykstra

Small Business Owner at JRD Apps (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Great for starter websites and provides many great templates

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used WordPress to help build our website, mostly creating webforms and utilizing the built-in widgets to enhance the look and feel of our pages and to attract more visitors to our page. The product was extremely affordable and each to use, however, there were limitations on what we could and could not do.

Pros

Simple and Easy to use
Modern design templates
Large selection of themes and widgets to use

Cons

More advanced options - personalized webforms
Better customer service
Integration with other systems we use

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, smaller organizations with simpler layouts would be well suited to use WordPress, however, larger organizations with more advanced website feature needs may need another product. We found the website to be great at first, but as we grew, we needed more options that were not fitting for the product we had with WordPress and had to look at alternatives.

Verified User

Director in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Love WordPress!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use WordPress for my company's website. It helps me share about my brand, about who I am and why I am qualified to sell what I offer, helps me share what I offer in a visually pleasing way, and it also hosts my blog and sales pages.

Pros

Very easy to use if you are not super tech savvy
Can easily add templates to make the design of it very pretty
The ability to use it for blogging is the best online

Cons

I think having built in analytics that aren't part of a plugin would be helpful
I think the plugin updates needed should be moved higher up the sidebar

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are selling a service or digital products, or are a writer wanting to host a blog, I think WordPress would be awesome for you!

Verified User

Professional in Marketing (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Stable, flexible...Invaluable !

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress has been the Go-to platform for our website for over 15 years.

We tried Joomla and Apple Iweb before this. Nothing comapres to WordPress for its ease of use, its flexibility, the way the web pages are seen on cell phone and tablets and its overall stability.

We have had 10 sites using WordPress, some with Woe Commerce plug in , some with OptimizePress plug in and some WordPress native .

Our main web site as over 800 pages includin a 700+-posts blog.

Flawless!!

Pros

Easy editing of web pages
Easy addition of blog post
RSS link to be used with Mailchimp automation
Well referenced
SEO plug-in easily integrated for optimized search
page design is easily understood by novice users
Editing interface is user friendly

Cons

Once advanced functions are activated by pro-users, novices can be hard-pressed to modify easily.
SEO tools could be improved. Using plug-ins are Ok but native WordPress SEO would be nice
Media management could be improved. Some old media are difficult to remove.
Warning for big media files would be helpful for novice users not aware of the impact of huge files on loading speed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Definitely the one platform I would recommend more than anything I have seen.

The ready-to-use web site platforms offered all over the web, Facebook and Youtube are OK to start but everyone I know who has used those ready -to-go platforms are disappointed after a while. The bells and whistles of those sites are no match with WordPress powerful and flexible design tools.

WordPress beats them all! IT takes almost no time to learn and use it adequately.

François Lavallée

president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

WordPress, yes but no

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it to create our webiste. It was hard, really complicated to use, to include plugins, if you add one, the other one breaks, really hard to maintain, to organize and make it work. Not a very friendly system if you don;t have the proper experience. If you are not trined in every single plugin they have, you need to hire an expert and it will cost more money.

Pros

Advertising
Influencers offers

Cons

Have their own training courses
Being open makes it easy to get confused
Communication between plugins always has space to improve

Likelihood to Recommend

You need a web developer to create a proper website using WordPress. Is not that friendly for companies without experience to "build your own" website. It's easy to access, to set an account, to buy a domain and hosting, but to create and build the website, is not that simple.

Daniel Cetina

Founder in Marketing at Immunity Digital Marketing (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Stable, flexible...Invaluable !

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress has been the Go-to platform for our website for over 15 years.

We tried Joomla and Apple Iweb before this. Nothing comapres to WordPress for its ease of use, its flexibility, the way the web pages are seen on cell phone and tablets and its overall stability.

We have had 10 sites using WordPress, some with Woe Commerce plug in , some with OptimizePress plug in and some WordPress native .

Our main web site as over 800 pages includin a 700+-posts blog.

Flawless!!

Pros

Easy editing of web pages
Easy addition of blog post
RSS link to be used with Mailchimp automation
Well referenced
SEO plug-in easily integrated for optimized search
page design is easily understood by novice users
Editing interface is user friendly

Cons

Once advanced functions are activated by pro-users, novices can be hard-pressed to modify easily.
SEO tools could be improved. Using plug-ins are Ok but native WordPress SEO would be nice
Media management could be improved. Some old media are difficult to remove.
Warning for big media files would be helpful for novice users not aware of the impact of huge files on loading speed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Definitely the one platform I would recommend more than anything I have seen.

WordPress beats them all! IT takes almost no time to learn and use it adequately.

François Lavallée

president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn