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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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Fair
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Digital Asset Management
Analytics and Reporting
Content Security
Translation Facilitation
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
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Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
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WordPress.com Reviews

Afrina Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
It is simple to begin in any area
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?
There are free and paid themes for any blog in any section. This is something that every user may contribute to. The nicest aspect of this software is the simplicity with which plugins and other features may be implemented.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I resolved the theme configuration but added personalized code to theme editor features. Resulting in a considerably easier website's functioning.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Being a web development company, I dislike the covering of additional server space since there is a lot of unnecessary stuff that consumes storage and data while we browse the website.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is an excellent choice for both learners and experts. The theme for every website in any sector is accessible for free or for a fee. This is something that every user may contribute to. Simple to set up. Quick comprehension of functions There is no demand for a programmer if you are familiar with server configuration.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Respectful
- Over Delivered
- Appreciates Incumbent Status
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Jean P.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
Deploying your e-commerce websites easily
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?
WordPress.com offers professional website hosting coupled with some powerful advantages: while some hosting providers would just go on with providing a domain and server package, WordPress.com would provide not only a collection of premium WordPress themes for your stores, but also direct features and integrations for accepting payments from 60+ countries. It like a WordPress, but powered by customer support, marketing tools, and monetization integrations, at a monthly cost.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I really love that a free domain name is included for one year with any of the WordPress package. Furthermore, it removes the burden from the user of having to perform complex server setup, installing WordPress, creating databases, configuring PHP or even performing DNS mapping at 3rd parties. Automatic website backup and the ability to restore with 1 click also makes WordPress.com an outstanding offer.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike is that WordPress.com storage is limited at 13GB for Premium plans and 200GB for eCommerce plans. Also their is no indication of the resources allocation in terms of CPU and RAM. Yu do not have that 100% customization control with WordPress.com as compared to hosting on your own servers, for WordPress.com tries to upsell you features which would otherwise be free, if you were self-hosting.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are starting an eCommerce store and do not want to bear the burden of website development and server setup, but instead have a fast deployable solutions, WordPress.com is the best fit. It will make you save a lot of money in terms of IT staffs. It is a complete solutions and will have your business running online almost instantly.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Daniella F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
A free and open-source content management system
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?
SEO- SEO is a better option than PHP or any other website administration because it has all the necessary tools to complete the job. Designing- When it comes to designing, it’s incredible that you’ve already used the basics of page builders like woo-commerce or in house builder. Fast Speed- The index page loads quickly and the cached pages may be managed easily. Migration- Migrating from one WordPress site to another is as simple as taking a backup and using the tools you already have.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
If WordPress wants to make modifications to a website, I feel they should first contact the website’s owner. WordPress, in my opinion, should include live chat on all plans, not just the corporate one. Starting a small company using free plugins for individual blogs. WordPress offers domain names at a premium compared to other domain registrars. WordPress should have an option for automatic backup; now, this is only available through third-party plugins or by hand.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I believe WordPress should offer instant chat for all plans not just for the business plan. Creating free plugins for starter business of individual blogs. Getting domain names from WordPress is comparatively high than other domain sellers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Being on social media and the blogging world, WordPress has been a lifesaver for me. WordPress is a free blogging platform, but it does offer premium services such as premium themes, more storage, and the opportunity to pay to remove adverts from your articles and content... Even while they don’t really get in the way of your content, having no advertising running on your site is a nice perk if you’re serious about blogging and have a particular preference for the look of your blog, as I do. Because the Web site is free to use and to establish your own blog and to post and manage your own content.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Respectful
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