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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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Awards & Recognition

WordPress.com won the following awards in the Content Marketing category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

4 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Champion

2021

WordPress.com Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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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.

+93 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

5% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Fair
Trustworthy
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Content Creation

Content Storage

Content Campaign Management

Content Curation / Library Controls

Editorial Workflow

Web Experience Management Integration

Content Optimization

Multi-Channel Distribution

Personalization/Audience Targeting

Content Analytics

Editorial Calendar

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Score 8.9

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WordPress.com Reviews

Priyank S.

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

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Submitted Sep 2022

Best CMS Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

The development of the webpage is solid, the connection point is basic and appealing, I preferred the presence of the website, it is truly great, customization and setup is complete, I like the adaptability while modifying, it is the best thing that the product has, it is extremely valuable to make my site or my blog, it permits me to utilize SEO tools, that it is open source is an extraordinary assistance, the number of plugins is vital to getting a first level and expert website, I can add vignettes, banners templates and numerous different things, the progressions are refreshed continuously, the product is truly secure.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I like the most is WordPress is thoroughly free you need to pay for the domain and hosting that's it. You can make any sort of site quicker than expected without doing any coding which is exceptionally wonderful. WordPress gives you lots of free themes and plugins as per your specialty and niche to use for making a website. Customer support and dashboard interface is also great.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main deficiency, I have noticed so far is the weaker integration of WordPress with marketing platforms which will enhance the productivity of websites made for particular purpose. Apart from that, this is the best tool for handling websites.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My recommendations is to watch videos or take a course before starting WordPress for newcomers.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Ayushman G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Great CMS product for all kind of users

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

WordPress provides enormous plugins and themes which are really helpful in creating amazing products. It also provide support for third party plugins and themes and there are n numbers of third party services which provides beautiful and fully functional themes. It also provides support for the ecommerce with its WooCommerce plugin. It is really simple to use. This simplicity is not much available in other products. It also provides a great access management feature which really helps a lot in assigning different roles for different tasks in the organization.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of this is its drag and drop feature to build amazing and responsive website. It is so easy to create fantastic engaging websites in minutes with the WordPress. It has various plugins to help us out in different situation. You just name a feature or a service, you will find a plugin for the same. It becomes a lot easier ti manage the content and optimize it with the help of plugins. It also provides nice and informative admin panel for viewing the stats of our published content.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I haven't face much issues while using it, it is up to the mark. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is that there are some phishing and early level plugins available on its store which really affects the security of your website. These kinds of plugins should be removed.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend this product if you are looking for a great CMS tool which requires less time and manual labor to build great website. If that's your requirement then must go with it.

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Effective Service
Saves Time

Harshita N.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

"Easy to use and compatible"

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?

It's easy to use and customizations are easy

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It supports a hug number of plugins that makes life easy in creating a very intuitive website

What do you dislike most about this product?

It costs for various things like purchasing a theme and some advanced plugins

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's easy to understand and easy to build a website.

Pros

Helps Innovate
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Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Champion

WordPress.com Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 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.

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

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.

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 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

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).

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

Editorial Calendar The ability to create a common calendar view on when certain content assets will be published to customer-facing properties.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Priyank S.

Best CMS Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ayushman G.

Great CMS product for all kind of users

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Harshita N.

"Easy to use and compatible"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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