You can also consider reading this post as “Why WordPress is Best CMS (Content Management Software)”. Yes, you read it right. We don’t give WordPress a certificate but 35% of total websites on the internet use WordPress and the number itself is a certificate.
You are reading this post in WordPress blog too :). We developed lots of static and dynamic websites for clients but we still recommend using WordPress. There are still few limitations and drawbacks of using WordPress but we will focus on what makes WordPress the best CMS of all the time. As per WordPress news in 2005, WordPress had 50,000 downloads. Till 2011, WordPress acquired 13% market share and in 2019, it was 33%. Let’s checkout, what makes WordPress a favorites CMS?
Priceless but Absolutely Free
Yes, WordPress is an open source software. You can download, install and modify it absolutely free. Its build by a large and strong community of developers, designers etc.
Install and Go Live in minutes
WordPress is very easy to install the software. We must say, this is one of the easiest web CMS to configure. In fact, many add-ons in Hosting panel like Softaculous lets you install it with just a few clicks. It was not this simple but the popularity and continuous innovation made it happen for WordPress.
Easy to Manage
WordPress is the darling of bloggers and professionals. The reason behind is it very simple admin panel and easy to use features. Installing themes, changing themes, adding/removing plugins, posting a new post, managing menu items and everything else is just like magic. WordPress continuously worked on improving its admin panel but if you look it even after a few years, it won’t take you more than a few minutes to be familiar with.
Very Secure
With a vast websites share of 35% as of the year 2020 and a strong community, WordPress has gone through a robust path of testing. WordPress delivers core updates from time to time to check with security updates and fixing loopholes. Apart from its core built, users can also install free security plugins like Sucuri for escaping boot force and other types of attacks.
Themes and Plugins
What developers community loves most is the availability of WordPress themes and plugins. You can start your own website with just a price of hosting and domain only.
You just have to think of a feature and its available there as a plugin and most of them are available for free.
No matter what business you are in, you will get a suitable WordPress theme at ThemeForest for you.
Search Engines Friendly
Its been a long debated question, does WordPress really have SEO advantages? Being a WordPress development company, we can say yes. Let’s see why it’s SEO friendly?
- It takes care of HTML markup itself
- SEO friendly URL (permalinks)
- Easily optimized images with ALT tag
- By default mobile friendly
- High content caching with plugins
- Manage seo with plugins
Unmatched Community Support
The success of any programming language or software depends upon its community support and the biggest strength of WordPress today is its both official and unofficial community. If you are a developer or designer or a tester, anybody can contribute to WordPress. A large number of threads around the web makes new WordPress user happy.
Everyday Improving
If you have a look at WordPress update release history, you will see WordPress releasing new updates every few months. This is proof of WordPress evolving with upgrading hardware and user experience.
Strong Multiuser Support
If you ever used any CMS, you must be aware of user roles. WordPress allows you to create 6 levels of users like Super Admin with all top levels of permissions on all sites (in multi-sites structure), Author for writing posts etc.
Built in Blogging
With WordPress, if you need a blog within your website, you don’t need to install anything else. Blogging is already a part of every WordPress website, use it, if required.
Great Multimedia Support
You can add images, PDF files, Word Documents, Open Documents, PPT, Excel, ZIP files, Audios and Videos in many different formats. Isn’t it pleasing? Just drag the item to its media library and you can use it on your WordPress website.
Switch Hosting Easily
WordPress has a great modular approach and you can move the entire website by moving a ZIP file containing WordPress files and a MySQL database. Check out how you can migrate a WordPress website easily from one server to another.
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