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WordPress.com

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
WordPress.com
8.8 /10

What is WordPress.com?

WordPress is web publishing software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is more than a publishing platform. It’s a powerful and empowering technology built by a global community of passionate contributors, united by the spirit of freedom to create and share without barriers.

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Awards & Recognition

WordPress.com won the following awards in the Digital Experience - Midmarket category

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WordPress.com Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1
Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

Down 1
Since last award

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


Emotional Footprint Overview

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
91%
Negotiation and Contract:
90%
Conflict Resolution:
93%
Strategy & Innovation:
91%
Service Experience:
92%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

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1% Negative
8% Neutral
91% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Web Publishing Capabilities

86

Content Repository

85

Content Workflow Management

84

Management Interface

84

E-Commerce Integration

84

Standard Templates

83

Social Media Integration

83

Digital Asset Management

83

Content Security

83

Analytics and Reporting

83

Translation Facilitation

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

85

Quality of Features

84

Ease of Implementation

84

Ease of Customization

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Ease of IT Administration

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Breadth of Features

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Vendor Support

80

WordPress.com Reviews

Beckham L.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

Versatile Platform for Websites.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

WordPress is backed with rich community and technical support where it also available with the forums, tutorial and professional tips for the users. Amidst such an atmosphere of cooperation, an easier learning process and experience enhancement is promoted compared to competitors offering a similar service without extensive tools and information. Another advantage of the platform is the capability of growing from a simple website that perhaps is a simple blog to huge online shops and stores.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the rather important characteristics is the availability of a large number of resources for working with the platform, forums, blogs, competent documentation. It offers both beginner tutorials and online discussions and Q&A’s from experts to be able to enhance the overall functionality of the crowdsource marketing system. This make WordPress.com useful tool for people who want to advance in experience and for those who have no experience at all in managing their websites.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One downside to the platform is the pricing system that might pose a problem to any user interested in finding unique features. However, there are numerous core tools and features which have been disabled in the free version, and although some of them can be enabled by using the thirty days free trial option, that would likely result in customer’s prompt setup of a paid plan as they incur more charges depending on the complexity of their websites needs.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Don’t miss the opportunity and utilise related aids, including, for instance, tutorials or popular communities. Studying these materials should help to gain a deeper insight of the platform and potentially unlock its full potential for your specific purpose for the website.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Bianca K.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Energy
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

A flexible and well integrated platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

WordPress.com sets itself apart from other website builder platforms in terms of navigability and flexibility. By having a large variety of themes and plugins that work in tandem, users can design their final product using customizations that are restricted to their desire, both in terms of usefulness and looks, while having minimal programming knowledge.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the best things about WordPress.com is its flexibility and ability to be customized quite easily. One cannot complain of the choices available on them and plugins, where a user can customize his/her website to the TOG’s brand image. This feature is rather helpful and allows for flexibility needed when creating personal blogs, portfolios, as well as business sites for selling products online.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One of the main problems of using WordPress.com is that the themes interface is limited or partially restricted on the lower pricing plans. Some might argue that the clients are limited by the lack of permission to download additional plugins or themes which can be very helpful when designing bespoke projects capable of offering comprehensive functions to a certain client.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

In particular, if one is thinking about using WordPress.com, one should firstly choose the free package to get a feeling of the actual site. This will enable the users set a tone on whether they will require further services hence making it easier for them to purchase the paid package.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Arushi B.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

Superb tool for creating blogs websites.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

It is one of the richest and easiest tool for creating the blog website by simple doing the drag and drop. It has lots of inbuilt themes. We can create website with in few mins. It is easy to manage and deploy on servers. Content management is easy and quick.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It reduce the maintenance cost. Easy to manage content from anywhere by using the Cpanel. It automatically updates the plugins and library without any extra efforts.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not suitable for complex websites, limited plugins and integration.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good for non tech website designers. It saves time as well as money.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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