If you are still in the confusion of whether to choose WordPress out of all the content management system platforms, then here is what you need to know – today it is used by approximately sixty million websites, which include some eminent names like eBay, Reader’s Digest, Facebook Newsroom, Google Ventures,etc.
So, what makes these top brands to prefer WordPress for running their website?
WordPress Is Free For Everyone
Being a free software, WordPress can be used by anyone to create a website. There are about more than 2600 WP themes and 31,000 WP plug-ins, which you can download, install and utilize to modify your website. All you need is a domain and web hosting to start up your WordPress site.
An open source community, a large number of web developers and active contributors aim to make this platform stronger. They contribute here with free themes, plug-ins, update of documents, answer to supporting questions and more. You could also receive support from other community members for free.
WordPress Is Easy to Use
This platform is for easy usage and this is why you will not need to acquire any coding skills or hire any specialist. This is why WordPress is used for setting up majority of websites. You can easily create new page, post new content or upload new images.
WordPress has Variety of Themes and Plug-ins
WordPress features more than thousand themes and plug-ins. Moreover, being an open source platform, it has a lot of contributors who provide variety of themes and plug-ins, which you can use for free. You can get many theme templates to choose from and also customize your website look.
The CMS also features plug-ins, which you can use to modify your website’s e–commerce and functionality. You can avail plug-ins to integrate payment system, add shopping cart, prevent lead spam and improve your site’s social network.
WordPress Is SEO Friendly
WordPress is SEO friendly, since it comes with semantic code and high quality code that makes it easy for search engines to track down your site’s content. Besides, you can also find many WP SEO plug-ins that can be used to optimize your site’s ranking level.
WordPress Is Mobile Compatible
2015 is the year Internet marketing will witness a large percentage shift from PC usage to Smartphone/tablet usage for Internet shopping. Websites would want to check whether their sites are compatible to these devices. Anyone who is running a website on WordPress can easily avail a storehouse of responsive themes that would look great for tablets and smart phones.
WordPress Is Easy To Setup
This is true! You can set up a website and customize it with a low cost maintenance. You can find a designer or a developer easily if you want to customize your WP site further for future development.
So give WordPress a chance if you are thinking about changing your website’s CMS platform. These are a selected few features which have been discussed here. Be a part of WordPress community and see for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.
John Atkins is currently working as a research analyst of a WordPress development company. He uses blog to document his daily explorations with WordPress and enjoys letting his readers know.