Does anyone use WordPress for the website? Whgat are the pros and cons?
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Pros: Fast setup.
Good for: small company that wants a blog, put some info online, and contact us presence which many free to use sites already allow: Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Cons: Many.
Bad for: any company that wants to sell products online.
Wordpress is best for blogs. If you want to use it for anything else, good luck and I hope you have a fat wallet: plugins aren't free, custom designs, payment gateways, product management and custom product page design, delivery tracking, email setup, returns, inventory, sales, backup, database backup, migration, multi-site dashboard, surveys, forms, newsletters, etc. etc.
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Mario,
Thank you, I don't sell online, except for the links from my suppliers which takes client directly into those sites. Does this change things?
I've built three sites using WooCommerce and the total plugin cost was $100. Only $50 for a UPS shipping plugin and $50/yr for a state tax table. Telling novices that WordPress that is only "best for blogs" either shows that you're biased toward another program (e.g., Magento) or that you just don't like paying for custom programs. Further, someone who is just starting out with no e-commerce component has access to thousands of free templates/plugins through the WordPress repository (http://www.wordpress.org) that yield beautiful, mobile ready sites that are easy to maintain even for the most die hard technophobe. Plus, WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world with 75 million sites on board. https://www.freshconsulting.com/5-reasons-why-w...
Hi Joan,
If you are not going to sell anything you should be ok.