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WordPress.com

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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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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WordPress.com won the following awards in the Content Marketing 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

98 Plan to Renew

88 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.

+92 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
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Content Creation

Content Storage

Content Campaign Management

Web Experience Management Integration

Content Curation / Library Controls

Content Optimization

Personalization/Audience Targeting

Editorial Workflow

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

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Score 8.8

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WordPress.com Reviews

ARCHITA C.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Aug 2022

Get your website rolling quickly with WordPress

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

It is very easy to use and technically challenged people can also create a website on WordPress.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Selection of plugins and themes

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing at all

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best place to start your business website

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service

Afton B.

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

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Submitted Aug 2022

One of the easiest and best CMS available.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

The features of WordPress that I find most appealing are numerous. The WordPress website may be tastefully modified using a variety of free extensions because it is free software and available to everyone. However, WordPress might be readily modified and customized as we choose with extensive coding skills. It serves as a one-stop shop for creating multifunctional professional web sites.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The accessibility of WordPress is its best feature. I'm by no way tech savvy, therefore I like that the software is simple enough for users of any skill level. We utilize the platform to make customer websites as well, and we can simply show them how to use the administration so they feel compelled to make adjustments as they like.

What do you dislike most about this product?

When it came to shielding real individuals with names from hate crimes and assaults by apprehensions who use the WordPress platform anonymously, the Preconfigure trust & safety team is essentially useless. You must build and maintain a number of plugins to meet your demands because the code design is not best in class and there have been multiple security breaches.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Individual websites, forums, and online stores you can use WordPress to build whatever you desire. There are an infinite amount of paid WordPress themes accessible. WordPress is dependable, strong, and flexible. A versatile CMS is WordPress. Its user-friendly design has all menu options grouped according to their features. You are going to lose a lot of convenience and if you're still not using it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Carol E.

Role: Finance
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Aug 2022

Save a tonne of effort and time

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

WordPress.com, the greatest alternative for a blogging platform, includes fantastic and plenty of layouts and tools to help our blog succeed. The primary factor behind my affection for it is that it offers a wider range of functionality than other content marketing alternatives. It allows us to incorporate plugins for any kind of prerequisite we might have.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fact that it offers more advanced options to build and post our blog while still being extremely effective and modestly priced throughout the board is only one of the many reasons to adore it. The greatest part is that it is extremely customizable, allowing us to make the required adjustments to suit our particular requirements. WordPress.com gives us all the resources we require to effectively manage our content marketing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is not very user-friendly for beginners–despite WordPress.com being more user-friendly for beginners than other systems, you must still master some coding to get the most benefit from it. In terms of design, WordPress.com resembles a "website builder" more.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Overall, WordPress.com is ideal. It is a fantastic tool for starting and maintaining a blogging site, and it is also cost-effective because it offers numerous free templates that you can use to create your website for nothing, as well as some more sophisticated features and templates that are available for a fair charge.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

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

+92 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 Creation Provides tools for creating content to be used and shared on the platform.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

ARCHITA C.

Get your website rolling quickly with WordPress

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Afton B.

One of the easiest and best CMS available.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Carol E.

Save a tonne of effort and time

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Content Creation

Content Storage

Content Campaign Management

Web Experience Management Integration

Content Curation / Library Controls

Content Optimization

Personalization/Audience Targeting

Editorial Workflow

Multi-Channel Distribution

Content Analytics

Advanced Video Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support