Is Boldgrid worth it?
Boldgrid review: this page covers what the company's own pages say about its plugins, themes, prices and support.
Boldgrid makes WordPress tools for building, managing and speeding up sites, including a website builder, a caching plugin, a backup and management plugin and a cloud WordPress service. Prices are monthly and billed annually. For most readers the question is which single tool or bundle matches the job, not whether the company is real.
What is Boldgrid?
Boldgrid makes products for building, managing and growing WordPress websites, aimed at beginners and at professionals.
The homepage lists WordPress Website Builder, Crio SuperTheme, W3 Total Cache, Total Upkeep, WordPress Pro Design Suite and Cloud WordPress as its products. Crio SuperTheme gives fine-grained control over every aspect of a design, according to the company.
Who Boldgrid is for
The homepage says the products make building easier for beginners and faster for professionals. BoldGrid Central gives free access to the community editions of all of its products and services in one dashboard, so a visitor can start without paying.
How the plugins fit together
Total Cache Pro is a caching plugin with a WebP converter and CDN integration. Total Upkeep manages website updates, backups, restorations and transfers. Cloud WordPress provides instant WordPress installations for testing, staging, prototyping and sharing.
Is Boldgrid legit and safe to use?
The Spanish version of the terms of service names INMOTION HOSTING, INC., a California corporation, as the company that operates boldgrid.com.
The same terms name cloudwp.dev and boldgridcrio.com among the sites it operates. They say they were originally written in English (USA), and that the English version controls if a translation conflicts with it. This review read only the Spanish page, so the English terms should be checked before you rely on them.
Hosting partners
The hosting page calls DreamHost, InMotion Hosting and Web Hosting Hub its Platinum WordPress Hosting Providers. It says they have partnered with Boldgrid to provide an integrated experience, full Boldgrid support and maintaining compatibility standards.
How we evaluated Boldgrid
This review draws on Boldgrid's homepage, pricing page, hosting page, support page and terms of service.
WPBenchly did not sign up for or test any Boldgrid product. Each price and statement comes from those pages, and each fact links to the page it came from. The only terms page available was the Spanish translation, which says the English version controls, so the wording here follows the Spanish text and may differ from the English original.
Boldgrid output quality and limits
The pages make few claims about output quality or limits, so the points here come mostly from the feature and terms text.
Updates, rollbacks and cloud testing
Total Upkeep can roll back a site if a theme or plugin update fails, and it sends automated remote backups to Amazon S3 or Google Drive. Cloud WordPress lets users design, build and test websites, themes and plugins in the cloud before deploying to a live WordPress hosting environment.
Data and third-party content
The Spanish terms say the company and its subsidiaries may keep and use, subject to the Privacy Policy, all data collected from use of the services. They also say the company does not warrant third-party materials or content offered with the services.
Boldgrid key features
The catalog centers on a website builder, a SuperTheme, caching, site management and a cloud environment.
Builder and theme
The WordPress Website Builder listing on the pricing page includes 200+ Page Designs. Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme with advanced customization options that give fine-grained control over every aspect of your design. The WordPress Creator Bundle costs $8.25/mo, billed annually, and includes everything in the Premium Bundle plus Crio.
Management and cloud
Total Upkeep manages updates, backups, restorations and transfers. Cloud WordPress provides instant WordPress installations for testing, staging, prototyping and sharing. Caching comes from Total Cache Pro, a caching plugin with a WebP converter and CDN integration.
Boldgrid pricing and plans
Boldgrid sells most of its products by the month, billed annually, and offers free access to community editions through BoldGrid Central.
Boldgrid plans and prices
Total Cache Pro costs $8.25/mo, billed annually. Total Upkeep Premium costs $2.50/mo, billed annually, and Post and Page Builder Premium costs $2.50/mo, billed annually. WordPress Website Builder costs $5/mo, billed annually.
The WordPress Creator Bundle costs $8.25/mo, billed annually, and includes everything in the Premium Bundle plus Crio.
What users say about Boldgrid
Boldgrid's own pages quote customers, and those quotes come from the company's website, not from a review platform. Read them as the company's marketing, which is useful for what the product claims to do, but thin on how customers rate it.
Testimonials on the homepage say Total Upkeep makes it easy to transfer WordPress installations and to restore a site after plugin failures. A testimonial on the pricing page says the tool is simple to use, with drag and drop building.
Transfers and restores
The homepage also describes Total Upkeep as managing updates, backups, restorations and transfers, so those quotes cover one part of its job.
Ease of use
The pricing page quote is one customer's view, and it says nothing about how well the builder performs.
Support, refunds and cancellation
Boldgrid's forum support is monitored on weekdays, and Premium customers get 1:1 help from a technical team.
Support hours and premium help
Support monitors the forums Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm (Denver time). Plan questions around those hours, since the forums are not monitored on weekends, so a weekend post may wait until Monday. Premium customers get 1:1 support from the dedicated WordPress technical team to help set up and troubleshoot issues.
Renewals and cancellation
Subscriptions renew automatically unless the customer turns off automatic renewal, and the customer can cancel the renewal before the current term ends. If you cancel the Services, it is your responsibility to back up your website.
Who should use Boldgrid
Boldgrid suits WordPress owners who want a builder, caching and backups from one vendor and can pay monthly.
If you already use WordPress, the catalog covers building, caching and backups in one account. If you need hosting, the hosting page lists three Platinum partner providers: DreamHost, InMotion Hosting and Web Hosting Hub. Teams that need a staging area before a live launch can use Cloud WordPress for testing and staging.
Final verdict on Boldgrid
This Boldgrid review finds a broad catalog with clear monthly prices, and it leaves some gaps on output quality and terms.
Prices are printed plainly, and the catalog covers a builder, caching, backups and a cloud environment. The gaps are the pages' limited detail on how well the builder or the cloud service performs, and the terms reviewed were only the Spanish translation. Check the English terms and renewal rules before you buy.