WordPress began as a blogging platform in 2003 and has since grown to become the most popular content management system available. By September 2019, WordPress was powering over 34% of all websites on the internet, making it a dominant force in the space. WordPress is most likely the platform of choice that we will suggest for you to build your website. Having said that, WordPress is not the sole choice. Here in this blog we will go over the benefits. You should still be assessing which CMS will work best for you.
Advantages of Choosing WordPress
User Friendly CMS
WordPress’s foundation in blogging makes it a powerful content management system. An administrator can edit pages, add new content, and navigate the WordPress site’s backend with great ease. Content organization is made easy with WordPress, even for those without much experience managing websites.
Plugins
WordPress users have access to over 54,000 plugins, the majority of which are paid and free. Any WordPress website can be improved and customized with the help of these plugins. It’s likely that there is a plugin available if you need to specifically alter the functionality of your website. To make sure these plugins don’t compromise the security of your website, we’ve written a guide on how to evaluate their quality.
SEO
Best practices for SEO are more important than ever. It’s amazing that WordPress promotes these best practices. To help optimize content, meta tags, keyword focus, and much more, there are a ton of SEO plugins available. Every WordPress website is prepared for search engines with the help of free plugins like Yoast. When it comes to SEO optimization, WordPress is the best platform available.
Responsive
There are thousands of themes available for WordPress. These themes are generally very dependable in terms of responsiveness. As more and more internet browsing is done on mobile devices, the user experience (UX) of a website is greatly impacted by its mobile friendliness and consistency across all devices. WordPress excels in this area.
Its An Open Source
WordPress’s source code is available for anyone to use, examine, modify, and distribute. Because WordPress is open-source software, coders are free to share code publicly online and many of the themes and plugins are available under the GPLv2 license. By utilizing pre-existing code, code sharing can lead to significant time and cost savings in development. Using an open source platform is also advantageous when developing your WordPress website with a third-party partner or agency. Working with proprietary software that is limited to a select few developers won’t be an option for you. If you ever need to switch partners, there are plenty of WordPress CMS developers available who can continue to support your website.
WordPress Sites Have An In-Built Blog
WordPress has many features that make content publishing simple because it is a content management system. One of these is a “built-in” blog feature that allows users to add a blog to their website without having to create one separately. This feature can be accessed at any time and from any device. This enables websites unrelated to blogging to add announcements or updates via the blog feature.