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WordPress.com

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.0 /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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

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89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

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 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
9% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Fair
  • Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Web Publishing Capabilities

86

Content Repository

84

E-Commerce Integration

84

Management Interface

83

Standard Templates

83

Social Media Integration

83

Digital Asset Management

82

Analytics and Reporting

82

Translation Facilitation

81

Content Security

81

Multi Channel Support

80

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

84

Quality of Features

84

Ease of Customization

84

Ease of Implementation

84

Ease of IT Administration

83

Ease of Data Integration

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Breadth of Features

81

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Vendor Support

78

WordPress.com Reviews

Lara H.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Media
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

Management system and blog publishing website tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

WordPress.com provides me the ease of use because backed code is way easier to understand for users and it provides me search engine enhancement.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We can have control of your site easily because for every update I do not need to concern my website developer we make our updates; all the controls are in my hands. As it is a blogging platform so it helps me to make your site more idolize and allow you all settings to use those are built in such as commenting.

What do you dislike most about this product?

In WordPress.com hacking chances are high because of its open-source platform and you are provided with limited templates. There are limitations in designing your website look. As it is running on the server so needs more resources than a single web page so often it is very slow.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It provides an interface to the website owner to manage their content database easily that is named as a dashboard in the application. You do not need any HTML editing or any file transfer protocols required for it because all it has it's built-in functionality. You can manage it from any kind of computer no specialty needed because it is a browser-based application you just need an internet connection to log into it easily so it can be accessed from any type of device. You only need two components to work on your own server: one is PHP because word press is written in PHP language and you need MYSQL for database purposes.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Effective Service

Nicholas G.

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

Submitted Mar 2022

To make a decent and future-expandable site

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

Search engine optimization has every one of the methodical instruments to accomplish practically everything rather than in PHP or some other site on the board. Planning is astonishing you have utilized in-house manufacturer or charm commerce, the rudimentary page developer for your requirements, and some of them with essential elements are free. Quick Speed for stacking record page and the executives for reserved pages. Movement in WordPress is not difficult to simply take reinforcement and relocate with the apparatuses of yourself. It's likewise an extraordinary stage for the specialists and architects to get inventive with.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

To make a decent and future-expandable site basically and rapidly without including software engineers, then, at that point, obviously focus on WordPress. If it's simply a point of arrival, you can pick another web-based web designer. While picking WordPress, be ready for the way that a ton of things are carried out in modules here, yet you need to pay for every one of the beneficial things. Furthermore, along these lines, the expense of possession can be very high over the long run. It's quite simple for a beginner to rapidly tweak present subjects to the look and capacity they need.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Making free modules for starter business of individual sites. Getting space names from WordPress is nearly high than other area dealers. Programmed reinforcement ought to be included in the WordPress itself, this moment it is not accessible you need to utilize outsider modules of can do physically.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

WordPress is great for site executives, particularly assuming the individual administering the site has insignificant involvement in WordPress. This is because the program is genuinely simple to learn. You can rapidly figure out how to add posts and new pages, or essentially copy existing substance to fill in as a beginning stage for new happiness. It's not difficult to review content before it goes live and you could plan content to go live on a specific day/time. WordPress has a practically limitless exhibit of choices, styles, instruments, and ways of tweaking your site.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

Melanie T.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Transportation
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

With WordPress my blog works great

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

This software is the easiest software for creating blog articles that I have been able to get. It allows me to create posts quickly and without much hassle, with very good plugins to create a fully SEO optimized article, so that search engines will rank them at the top.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is quite easy to use, it does not take much practice to know how to create a post for an article and start writing. The yoast seo plugin, allows you to optimize each article, both in the area of SEO and readability. It has an image library to upload optimized images. A fairly complete software.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some plugins are paid, so if you want to have all the features and tools for a quality article and blog, you will have to pay an additional cost. Sometimes when I write a paragraph it moves around when I preview, which is frustrating to have to rearrange the whole article to make it look good.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

So far this has been the best software for creating my blogs, where I can upload all the articles, review the comments I have and even edit the articles after publishing them. A very useful tool for all bloggers who want to have their website at a low cost.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features

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