WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available. But what many people don’t know is that it is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be used for more than just blogging. With WordPress you can build a blog, a website, or both. This is our story about WordPress where we’ll explore why WordPress is a good choice for business websites, blogs and social media purposes.
Endless Extensions
The Plugin Functionality
WordPress has a seemingly endless supply of plugins that can be downloaded, installed and utilized for absolutely free. The installation of these plugins is easy, and involves uploading the plugin to your blog space and simply activating it through the admin section in your WordPress site. Whatever you end up needing in terms of functionality, there is more than likely a number of plugins that can be downloaded and installed to improve the capability of your blog or website.
The Theme Functionality
Most people are going to be interested in customizing their blogs or websites. There are literally thousands of completely different themes out there, offering one column, two columns or three columns, graphics, color combinations and a variety of other details which allow for complete customization of your blog or website to suit your needs, the theme of your blog and the needs of your readers. You can choose for a free theme or you can customize your site with a professional premium theme.
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. In fact Google’s own Matt Cutts says WordPress is “made to do SEO well”!
User friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. We can 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. More robust and feature-filled CMSes tend to be weak(er) in user-friendliness and high on complexity. Teaching beginners to handle WordPress is a much, much easier task. Here, we referring more towards the front-end of things with regard to community sites with multiple contributors, where it’s likely that the people who publish the majority of articles are less experienced CMS users.
Large community support
If you do have problems, or want to add very custom features, it is easy to find support and developers who can help you. There are literally thousands of WordPress developers out there. And there are so many people writing about WordPress that help is only a Google search away! WordPress has become a huge developer community. They have listened to thousands of people and based on this unparalleled experience they have forged the best Open Source CMS of the year 2009. With major version upgrades it will be possible to have new features. With the constantly minor version upgrades bugs will be fixed and security will be improved. With the improving plugins you will be able to extend your functionality.
Conclusion
WordPress is an extremely user friendly blogging platform, it gives you an endless way of customize your own projects, it has a great community support and developed it self as the best Open Source CMS of the year 2009!