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Wordpress is a hugely popular CMS system. Almost half of the Internet is built on it and currently, there are around 529 million websites that use it. It was founded in 2003, which is quite a while ago when relative to the history of the Internet. Wordpress is very well known and has its own small ecosystem of plugins, developers, and page builders that has spawned off of it.
Regardless of all of this, I still wouldn’t recommend Wordpress to most people.
I used to use Wordpress and have worked on several websites for it. I did not like it. At all. Wordpress itself is not bad per se, but I really wouldn’t say that it works best for small and medium sized businesses.
To put it shortly, it’s not very user friendly and it’s difficult to get exactly what you want out of your website without having good programming skills.
Wordpress would probably be a good solution to larger corporations and companies, but it definitely doesn’t handle the needs of smaller businesses well.
Wordpress is quite difficult to handle if you don’t have very good programming knowledge. There are a few free templates offered for it, but it’s incredibly hard to change the design and look of your website if you are not good at coding.
Unless you find a very good developer for your website, it will probably end up looking more than a little clunky and not at all in line with your brand.
Even if you hire a web developer and designer to make your website, you might still want to be able to make some minor changes to it afterwards yourself. Well, that would be a bit of a
Want to add comments to your website? Plugin. Want to be able to duplicate a page? Plugin. Want to optimize websites for SEO? Plugin. Want to be able to share your blog posts to social media? Plugin. Adding a mega menu? Plugin. Sell products, physical or digital? Plugins. Several.
You can’t really create a decent site on Wordpress without either being absolutely great at coding or buying several plugins.
Having to use all these extra plugins on your website isn’t ideal for several reasons. It can very quickly drive up the costs of your website, make it even likelier to brake if one of the plugins doesn’t react well with another one or needs to be updated, and can make your website even more vulnerable, security-wise.
Wordpress is one of the most hacked platforms on the Internet. According to Hostinger, there are an estimated 4.7 million hacking attacks on Wordpress sites each year, with around 13,000 attacks every day.
Once again, unless you manage to find a very good developer, it is easy to get lost very quickly. Wordpress has a community forum system to help people sort out issues, but no formal or more dedicated support for people building websites there.
The forum can be very hit and miss, and—since it’s a community forum—you’re not guaranteed to get answers at all.
When I had a website on Wordpress, we had a lot of trouble with the hosting. Our website would go down every once in a while for hours on end until we eventually switched it over to another hosting service. When sending emails to Wordpress on this issue along with a few other things, there weren’t good answers that would help, if there were answers at all.
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