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WordPress.com

8.9 /10

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What is WordPress.com?

WordPress.com powers beautiful websites for businesses, professionals, and bloggers.

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WordPress.com Ratings

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89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love WordPress.com?

1% Negative

7% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Fair
Helps Innovate
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Content Storage

Content Creation

Content Campaign Management

Web Experience Management Integration

Content Curation / Library Controls

Personalization/Audience Targeting

Editorial Workflow

Content Optimization

Multi-Channel Distribution

Content Analytics

Advanced Video Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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WordPress.com Reviews

Carlos E.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Sep 2024

To create custom pages and posts

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

Provides automated maintenance, eliminating the need to worry about backups or software updates. Provides web hosting included makes it easy to set up a website.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With the “Gutenberg” visual block editor, I can quickly and easily create unique pages and posts by dragging and dropping content blocks, which is something I like about WordPress.com. Without requiring programming knowledge, I am able to work on both free and premium themes that are customizable.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Advanced customization is limited by the lack of access to the site code, particularly for free and basic plans.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend WordPress.com, it provides information on site traffic, referral sources, and post popularity.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Halimat I.

Role: Operations
Industry: Shipping
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2024

Easier to use and reliable enough

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

It has multitude of plugins which makes it a better situation to develop any website type

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the costs of Wordpress, they are not not expensive yet it comes with more Wordpress themes to customise to create a good professional looking website

What do you dislike most about this product?

You need to edit themes and plugins to secure your website from attacks as most free themes and plugins come with security vulnerability

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you need a professional CMS, consider Wordpress

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Efficient Service

Chhatrapal S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Sep 2024

The easiest-to-use and best website.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

The most advantageous aspect of WordPress is its exceptional user-friendliness and accessibility for novices.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

WordPress is the best website-building tool Its ease of use is its best feature for non-coders With this program, making websites is easy Many features are available. We can add plugins and themes.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Certain more recent CRMs have slightly more functionality and are slightly simpler. It's not the least expensive option available either.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is the most full and user-friendly control panel available, incredibly flexible, and comes with a wide range of templates and layouts

Pros

Enables Productivity
Security Protects
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

WordPress.com Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love WordPress.com?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Content Storage The ability to store various content assets (including text, photos and video) in a defined, structured repository.

Content Creation Provides tools for creating content to be used and shared on the platform.

Content Campaign Management The ability to deploy specific collateral or assets from the system to feed multi-channel marketing campaigns.

Web Experience Management Integration The ability to integrate with dedicated Web Experience Management platforms (either in the vendor's own product portfolio, or with 3rd party solutions).

Content Curation / Library Controls The ability to curate content through tagging and metadata management, as well as library services (such as version control).

Personalization/Audience Targeting The ability to display certain content types in a given channel endpoint based on audience demographics (known profile) or traffic attributes (unknown profile).

Editorial Workflow The ability to move content through a structured, automated workflow process (i.e. intake content from create applications, and move to specific folders.

Content Optimization The ability to dynamically optimize content deployed to certain channels (web, mobile, social) using customer profiles.

Multi-Channel Distribution The ability to deploy content assets and collateral to multiple channel endpoints (for example, traditional websites, native mobile applications or social media

Content Analytics Analysis of file contents for data trends and any relevant characteristics.

Advanced Video Management The ability to store, manage and perform basic edits on high-fidelity video content.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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WordPress.com Reviews

Carlos E.

To create custom pages and posts

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Halimat I.

Easier to use and reliable enough

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Chhatrapal S.

The easiest-to-use and best website.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Content Storage

Content Creation

Content Campaign Management

Web Experience Management Integration

Content Curation / Library Controls

Personalization/Audience Targeting

Editorial Workflow

Content Optimization

Multi-Channel Distribution

Content Analytics

Advanced Video Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support