Why use WordPress?
Written by Jai on April 19, 2008 – 11:45 pm - 1,464 views
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.
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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?
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
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..
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.
i started using wordpress a few month ago..and i find out it’s so awesome and wonderful
no wordpress, i cant write a blog..
stay with wordpress..
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…
Wordpress is secure. Thanks to its consistent development & its Large community Support.
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 !
i like it
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 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
Using wordpress for my website from past 2 years and very happy with its functionality.
Thanks for this cool article.
Sam.