Why WordPress is a popular CMS Why do people recommend WordPress?

Introduction

What is CMS for introduction please see our previous post (WPP01). Let me briefly explain What is CMS? As already mentioned in our post that CMS stands for “Content Management System”. Content is a broad term therefore, it could be in the form of Text, Picture, links, videos, and files. CMS is a kind of software that help us to preciously stores contents online. CMS is also known as “the engine of the website”. Among available CMSs, more than 50% website is designed by WordPress. So, in this post and onward WordPress would be discussed in such way that common audience can not only easily understand WordPress but also can design their own website or this knowledge and skill can be used to work an expert of WordPress to design website using WordPress for others.

Why WordPress is a popular CMS? Why WordPress is recommended?

The Most Popular CMS

Its importance can be guessed from this figure that more than 60M websites available on internet are powered by WordPress.  In case you select top 1M websites, approximately 30% of the websites are powered by WordPress. This is not fixed figure, the application of WordPress is increasing day by day.

Super simple to use……………….. Ease of Use

The simple reason of increased application of WordPress is its “Friendly nature” that can be used by anyone belong to any group of age or any field of knowledge. For WordPress user, it is not necessary to know the coding language like html, javascripts etc.  As we know that world most businesses, educational institutions, restaurants, hotels, travel bureaus, doctor appointments as well as number of others professional are interested to design websites for their works. It is mandatory to maintain and updates the information of these websites. There are two ways that can help to accomplish this task, either to hire CMS expert of coding or to use friendly CMS. For most of the websites which are designed for small works, the honor cannot afford high salary CMS skilled person. Therefore for such type of people friendly CMS is a gift. This is the reason that WordPress is recommended and love by non-skilled person to updates information of the website by them.

Online Support

WordPress provides an amazing online support. A very large community is online available to answer your queries/questions.

Blog Posts

All those people who love to write, as in ancient time people wrote diary, WordPress offer amazing way for the writers. Nowadays writing loving people like to write in the form of blogs. So most of the blogging websites are designed in WordPress. Well known blog websites such as bbc.com and cnn.com use WordPress for blogs posts. WordPress is very good for publishing stories. 

It’s free and open sources.

As in our daily life most of the people (including me too) love to get free our required things. Thanks AUTOMATTIC, which owned WordPress, provides free of cost this wonderful CMS to all those who are searching for free and friendly CMS. AUTOMATTIC adds new features to WordPress every day.  This is commitment of WordPress founder, MATT MULLENWEG. That WordPress would always remain free and open source.

Mobile Ready Pages

In addition, using other CMS you will have to optimize separately for Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, and Mobile. In case you are using WordPress your published contents will be mobile ready. You do not need to optimize for each device separately.

How to enhance functionality of WordPress?

WordPress functionality can be easily enhanced by installing small specific software known as “Plugins”. For example, you need to add some registration form in case of data collecting website. Number of plugins such as WP form are available just install and activate it and start making registration. Majority of Plugins are also free available however for some plugins a website owner will have to pay.

Ability to customize

WordPress has the ability to easily customize Themes. WordPress has lot of themes that can change the front site of the website as the administrator wish.

Performance

As much as high the performance of the website, more visitors can be attracted. Therefore, fast and high-performance CMS play a leading role in the promotion of business. Consequently it will lead to more earning.

Security

CMS must provide security to the contents as well as to the setting. WordPress has the ability of providing security to contents and setting.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Bringing a website to the top of the list in search engine require proper optimization, which is called SEO. Good SEO can help to rink website in top of the list or at least at first in search engine such as Google or Bing. WordPress has the ability of SEO by installing SEO plugins.

Others

WordPress can host (Media, forums, stores) websites. In addition, WordPress can be used to design services appointment website, like craigslist website, lead generation websites, crowd funding websites. In simple words, the possibility of using WordPress is endless.

Why people prefer to use WordPress?

People like to make/design website however many available CMS website is costly business. Anyone who wish to make his/her own website in free or in very low cost. For such type of people WordPress is the very best choice.

Who is WordPress for? and why they should use it?

WordPress provides opportunity for number of people who wish to work by choosing different occupations. Such as;

• Entrepreneurship. WordPress is good tool for those who like to work as WordPress professional to make website for others and earn money offline and/or online. For examples, physical shops and stores are converting to online mode. Conversation to online mode any physical shops or business is normally known as e-Commerce store. These businesses need proper websites. Most of the store make their e-Commerce store websites using WordPress. Similarly, lot of food related shops are converting to provide online service. WordPress empowers these shops and provides them online services by making websites to communicate with their target customers and sell their products online using WordPress made website. Lot of Startup business owners search for WordPress expert for making their business websites.
• Freelancers. Freelancers love WordPress.
  • Offering your WordPress Services on services websites for clients.
  • Making your own website to offer services for clients. Here clients can give you work.
• Smart Workers. Smart workers doing a job but using online tools and services in a smart way to change their life.
• Share contents. Instead of using social media such as twitter and/or Facebook, make your website and share thought leadership, your knowledge, expertise, experiences, and advice with world. WordPress provide you an opportunity to share long contents as compared to social media. In case of high traffic, you can monetize your website as well as offer space for advertising on your website.

Countless Application of WordPress

WordPress has countless applications like you can use it for making digital CV, making your own portfolio, for sharing NEWS, promoting your small business through a website. It is also useful for online professionals.