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鈥檚 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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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
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- Respectful
- Transparent
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
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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WordPress.com Reviews
Bianca K.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
A flexible and well integrated platform.
Likeliness to Recommend
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鈥檚 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
Submitted May 2025
Superb tool for creating blogs websites.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Mabel O.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
Security needs to be stretched!!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates WordPress.com from other similar products?
WordPress.com is a hosted platform where you can create a site without installing anything. It makes making blog sites easier with zero stress
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
All plugins are installed already and hosted, makes it easy to create a blog site
What do you dislike most about this product?
Many WordPress plugins and themes have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Implement strong passwords, enable two-factor authentication, and keep your WordPress installation, themes, and plugins updated also choose a reliable hosting plan
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
