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.
Hey, it’s not 1% the number of websites that use WordPress. It’s ยก15%! http://ayudawordpress.com/el-15-de-las-webs-funcionan-con-wordpress/
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As far as i know the most easiest cms that exist on net and used by millions of blogger and website owner is wordpress. Because wordpress is so easy to understand and manage that no-brainer person can easily deal with wordpress…
I think wordpress rocks…
Thanks for a nice post Why use WordPress, I just linked you in our post on WPThemesDesigner.com. Hope it will help you too.
I just built my site for painting on the wordpress platform. I really enjoy having the cosmetics of a theme with the ease of use of wordpress. I took advantage of the permalinks to make seo friendly urls. It really great to be able to login yourself for updates and not pay a programmer to do it for you.
thanks for your great article. i love wordpress! everything i can do with this software. personal web, portofolio, news website, etc.
I love wordpress. Simple and SEO friendly
WordPress is the best CMS! I just love everything about it
yes,, wordpress is GREAT!!!!!
Go WordPress!
Check out the new Exit Pop-Up WordPress Survey at http://www.brandography.com/products . Very easy plugin to use.
I am having a hard time distinguishing between WordPress.org and WordPress.com My friends use WordPress and templates to create great websites but I’m stuck with what to do once I have uploaded WordPress (changed config etc.) to my FTP manager. Now what? I usually edit my html files through Dreamweaver and I’ve been trying to learn how to change the site with CSS but now I am totally lost.
How to I rename my site without the /wordpress behind my site?
Thanks for you’re help. Any additional website references would be awesome. -Z
Zmoney, the main difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org is that .com provides free hosting of a wordpress blog and .org provides the software (c.m.s, plugins & themes) to install wordpress on your own hosting account.
To install wordpress on your domain (www.yoursite.com) you need to install it in the public_html directory and not a sub-directory called wordpress or blog (www.yoursite.com/wordpress or http://www.yoursite.com/blog)
Hope this helps – Dee
Real dont know why you would use anything else.
Having just set up a site for voucherdeck.com, and I am torn between using wordpress, or creating our own blog.
As I see it, the main advantages of wordpress are simplicity/ease in setting up; and SEO i.e. getting a higher search engine ranking.
The main downside to word press seems to be that it will not be entirely customised and in line with th ebranding I want to create.
(as you will have worked out, I am still unsure which way to go)
I just writing articles about WordPress and found your blog really i got new article idea…
WordPress has a powerful CMS that can be used for more than just blogging. Its incredibly versatile, it can be used to run a non-blog web site as well.With WordPress you can build a blog, a website, or both.
By far I think wordpress’ biggest advantage over it’s competition is the sheer amount of themes and plugs available for it. It’s (easily!) customizable far beyond what other CMS are.
Great article. Thinking of updating to wordpress and this was some useful info.
After learning all beneficial points for Word-press i will prefer to install and work on it more.. less than 5 seconds ago
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.
Just do it, you won’t be sorry. With the latest version, I don’t think anything else can touch it for an all round CMS.
Great post – I’ve linked to it on my blog.
http://www.happy-plastic.com
^_^
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.
Wow! Thats great! I will keep visiting your blog. Thanks for the infomation
Interesting Article. After reading this i have created my own blog.
http://www.indiantouristspot.com/blog
Interesting Article. Here are a few more reasons that we came up with for utilizing wordpress for sites.
http://www.delphicsage.com/home/blog.aspx/d=476/title=Reasons_to_Consider_Wordpress_as_a_CMS_for_Simple_Sitesjump
Build your own like me.
Solves all these problems, and you’ve got full control over everything.
Good article.
@Vic:- Vic did you ever get an answer to your question?
I’d like to know because I want to do the same thing.
hello my name is Vic and I found your blog. I have a website called Hollywoodpainting.com and I have a website installed onto it in a folder. I can access it by going to Hollywoodpainting.com/WP- admin where I can log on to my blog. But this is no good for everyone else how do they know I have a blog on this site how can I connect to a page to my blog that goes directly into the blog software so they don’t have to log on.
My intent is to have a viewer come to my website see the blog on the page somewhere and interact with it.
I don’t know whether you are capable of telling me how to do this or maybe you know a site that can teach me this.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Signed Vic
Its a grate CMS, I love it
Isn’t it a copy paste of http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/05/15/why-opt-for-wordpress/
God knows who copied whom!
haha!
Using wordpress for my website from past 2 years and very happy with its functionality.
Thanks for this cool article.
Sam.
I am using both blogspot and wordpress .Well ,it depends how far you want to go,if you want to boost up your business to another higher level,i recommend to use wordpress because of the features is more advance than blogspot.In terms of template ,wordpress has more variety of choices even blog designer only focus on wordpress blog design.
My advise:Plan before you change.If currently,you are using blogspot and the results are phenomenal in terms of traffics and readers,please carry o.But if you plan to have another blog,perhaps consider wordpress as your choice
I’ve toyed with the idea of moving to WordPress, but Typepad is just so easy to use, and I know I’d go OTT on add-ons and plugins if I had a WordPress blog!
i like it
Yes, that’s right ! Using WordPress provides a lot of advantages when creating a website. As web conceptor, I’m not working anymore with Dreamweaver and can focus my time and energy on the content.
I took the liberty of translating in french this article on my website:
http://www.freelancehtml.net/?p=119
I want my clients to read it.
Let me know if you’re agree with that.
Au revoir !
WordPress is secure. Thanks to its consistent development & its Large community Support.
Pk_JoA,
WordPress is SEO friendly, but still there are somethings to be made by the end user such as preventing duplicate content, permalink structure etc…
no wordpress, i cant write a blog..
stay with wordpress..
i started using wordpress a few month ago..and i find out it’s so awesome and wonderful
No doubt that WordPress is great. However i don’t find any issue with even blogger.com. Blogger.com is true blogging platform where as wordpress become more commercial. However there are many advantages with wordpress like it’s in php and mysql. So its easy to modify the template, where as blogger.com is written in their specific language which is little hard to learn. And there are so many free themes are available for wordpress, blogger.com doesn’t have many.
jai,
im using wordpress because of easy to handle and wordpress has more beautiful and plugin i love..
but, i dont know about typepad and others self-hosting blog platform..
Excellent post! I think the same as you, but I don’t know that WP was SEO friendly… well, everyday you learn something new, eh?
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PS: One correction, WordPress IS open source, but Open Source is not the same as free. In Open Source, you can edit it, but it can be free or not. If a program is free, it can be Open Source or not.
Please correct
PS2: Sorry for the bad english
WordPress isn’t all that SEO friendly our of the box. However there are some great mods, and with a little personal effort SEO on wordpress can people a much less painful process than on other CMS platforms.