Why use WordPress?
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
Plugins Extend Functionality
WordPress plugins allow you to do just about anything that you want and can be installed in a jiffy. For example, you want to paginate your blog posts, just look on Google and you can easily find the relevant plugin that will easily do the job for you.
Standards Compliant
WordPress is one software that follows all the Web Standards and keeps your blog or website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website.
SEO Friendly
Search Engines have to be definitely kept in mind when building a website. WordPress uses different functions which allow it to be search engine friendly. For example sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc.
Large community Support
As per recent statistics, WordPress is used on more than 1% of the websites on the Internet in the world. There is a large user community backing the development of this software. So, whenever you face any problems, you can go through all the available WordPress forums and communities and find answers for all your questions.
So, you see the benefits of using WordPress now? And, you can add to this list by providing your feedback in the comments.
I use Dreamweaver but after seeing how good Wordpress sites are coming out and how Google seems to like the coding I think its time i made the change. Some fab wordpess free themes out there to, and its so easy to use, great stuff.
Great post – I’ve linked to it on my blog.
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We developed our website three years ago and are now looking to fix it up and make some changes. A local design company advised us to switch to WordPress for our website – something about cold fusion. I have to admit I am lost….what is the issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Marg
The more I read about CMS, the more I think Wordpress.
The documentation, videos and forums out there mean that you have to go with the matket leader.
And wordpress are starting to think Blogging and CMS, not just blogging.
If you learn one of the other CMS packages (and there are lots), you could be spending a lot of time learning something that will be obsolete! A bit like buying a betamax video.
Thanks for backing up my theory with some sound reasoning.
Hi.. I am having a blog in and another one in wordpress. But i am more pleased with the wordpress blog. Its ease of use is very attractive. We can easily add posts, pages etc. Now the name of blog is http://citycricketers.wordpress.com. But if i want name like http://citycricketers.com , how can i get it?
and host my own php pages and adsense ads , how can i use it ? please help me.. !!
kindly mail me some information about wordpress.