So your thinking about moving to wordpress but not sure about it. Here are some of the reasons why wordpress is one amazing content management system and worth using in your next site.
100% free
WordPress is 100% free. Its an open source application and there are no licence fees for downloading it, running it or modifying it, as you like.
User friendly
When your login to the wordpress admin panel, you don’t see things in alien languages. Everything in the admin panel is designed to be as clear and easy to use as possible. Say you want to add a new page to the site. You would go to the Pages section of the admin panel. You want to delete a comment from a blog post? Then you would need to go to the Comments section. Its simple and clear. WordPress is known for being user friendly not only for clients but also for developers. How we know? We not only train our clients but we also are constantly hiring and training developers. So we know the value it brings to clients and our company.
Search engine friendly
WordPress is designed to be search engine friendly from the ground up. The way it manages its header tags, meta tags and content addresses is meant to get your site indexed in search engines fast. By using wordpress, you are giving your site a big push in terms of SEO.
More then 53,000 free plugins
Plugins in wordpress allow you to extend your sites functionality. WordPress.org has a huge collection plugins that are actively maintained and supported. Best part is that they are all free so you don’t need to worry about one being paid and other not being paid. Its simple with wordpress. Installing of a plugin is simple as well and can be done from your wordpress control panel.
Easy to Maintain
How easy is it to to update your wordpress and plugins? Well, if there is an update available, you will get a notice at the top of wordpress panel. Click the notice, then it will show you the updates that are available. Select the plugins that you would like to update or if its a new version of wordpress thats available then click on updating the wordpress system. You’r fully updated in a few minutes.
Fast!
WordPress system is designed to run fast. Its database queries, its file sizes and more are all designed to load fast and run faster. If you experience your wordpress is running slow, it just takes a few minutes for a developer to enable wordpress’s default query caching allowing it to run even faster.
Very big community
WordPress is not only a content management system but also community with a huge amount of people in it. By using wordpress, you become a part of it. By having a very big community, you can rest assure your site is using a system that’s not only popular but its also well maintained and secure.
Low cost hosting
Runs on low cost linux hosting best. Also most of the hosting companies provide special hosting just for wordpress which allows for faster performance and more features then if you had standard hosting.
Php based
With wordpress being php based, it allows you to easily expand the site as you need. Php has been used in websites for a very long time and its community of developers is very large. Even facebook was based on php in the start.
Reliable
Reason wordpress is reliable is because its over 20 years old. So it has had allot of time to mature into a solid content management system. Due to its reliability is used by allot of large news companies like eBay, Sony, IBM, GM, UPS and many more.
