Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has soared from a modest and ubiquitous blogging site to a sophisticated and favored open source web development platform. It is a pre-eminently used content management system (approximately 59.4%)and accounts for about 32% of all new websites. From Topnotch publications such as The New York Times and CNN, music icons such as Jay-Z and Katy Perry, to Fortune 500 companies such as UPS and eBay, WordPress designing, and development has been preferentially hunted. If you are thinking of building a new site, here are the advantages of using a WordPress website design.
1. Adaptable to Evolving Needs
WordPress is used to run complex sites for large multinational corporations, manage small businesses, and create personal blogs. WordPress sites can contain full-service eCommerce stores, showcase a portfolio, or host a social network, group, or podcast. Whatever a company’s requirements, the core WordPress package plus a variety of basic and premium plugins that are suitable for your site.
2. No HTML Editing or FTP Software Required
WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software (such as Adobe Contribute or Dreamweaver). You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.
3. WP is Cost-Effective
WordPress is a free software for download, installation, use, and modification to match your needs. You can use it to create any kind of website. While the WordPress software itself is free, you need a domain name and web hosting to install it. Bluehost, for instance, is one of the largest hosting companies in the world and an officially recommended WordPress hosting provider which also offers WPBeginner users a 60% discount on hosting and a free domain name. Basically, you can get started for $2.75 per month.
4. Plugins Extend Functionality
You can choose from around 22,000+ plugins —small pieces of code designed to perform specific tasks—that allow users to add features such as shopping carts, galleries, contact forms, and more to any compatible WordPress site. Users can also purchase and install hundreds of custom plugins from third-party developers. Plugins can be activated or deactivated and uninstalled as needed as a site evolves. WP also offers thousands of themes in order to give your website a new look or adapt it to the constantly changing trends of online media.
5. WP Sites Rank High
WordPress is written using standard compliance high-quality code and produces semantic markup. This makes Google and other search engines rank WordPress sites higher than others in search engines. By design, WordPress is very SEO(search engine optimization) friendly. You can also use WordPress SEO plugins to further optimize your website.
6. Built-in and Ready-to-go Blog
Since WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform, blogging capabilities are built-in and are easy to integrate, if desired. Setting up RSS / email subscriptions to your blog, commenting capabilities, and automatically adding the most recent blog posts to other pages of the site (your home page, for example) are also very simple to set-up, and help to extend your company’s reach and make your site more dynamic and interactive.
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