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Quick Summary
WordPress will be among the Best Blogging Platform in 2022 and has been downloaded more than 45 million times.
WordPress offers two options: WordPress.com and WordPress.org (you can also pay to use your domain) -with limited customization. You have complete freedom to host WordPress on your server with more control, edit themes to your heart's content, hack code, and add as many WordPress plugins as you like.
One of the core strengths of this platform is that it allows WordPress users to add powerful plugins to their blogs and qualify them with new layouts and designs. WordPress has a creative community that has created thousands of customizations and tweaks.
WordPress is beneficial for companies and individuals looking to develop sophisticated websites
Reasons to Choose WordPress
If you're wondering why you should choose WordPress, read this blog. However, it is impossible to investigate its strengths and weaknesses or confirm its function thoroughly.
WordPress can do anything!
1. Free and open-source software
Both WordPress.com and WordPress.org are entirely free. In short, WordPress.org is a self-hosted version with fine-grained website management and advanced plugins. WordPress.com is excellent for beginners, but it's lacking for businesses that want to make money, so consider migrating from WordPress.com.
In short, a group of contributors have developed WordPress. An open-source project is free and has a large community.
Note: WordPress software is free, but you'll probably still spend some money. WordPress is self-hosted and requires hosting. The hosting costs about $2.99 a month for a cheap shared server, but it can cost more for the best speed and performance.
Some themes and plugins are free, but premium (paid) users have more useful features and quality support. Besides, many WordPress users also use additional paid services such as freelancers or agencies.
For example, you may want a freelancer to design your logo or fine-tune your website's CSS code. Alternatively, some WordPress users hire graphic designers and maintenance professionals.
However, you can minimize the cost of WordPress. Many web admins spend money only on hosting.
When you visit the WordPress.org website, you'll find basic information about the platform, but the only button on that page is the Get WordPress button.
Clicking this will take you to a free download page updated with each release. (Currently, the latest version is WordPress 5.2 +.) It will give you an instant idea of how to provide WordPress software to your users. You will not be shown banner ads or asked to complete surveys before downloading the free software.
A simple page with only basic information, beta releases, requirements, source code, archives, and download counters. There are multiple download options along with instructions for installing the WordPress software.
Easier installation method
If you're looking for an easier installation, check with your hosting company. At a managed WordPress hosting company, the company handles installation, maintenance, security, backup, and more. WordPress will notify you about the update on your dashboard, and you can update within a minute.
2. Adapt to the situation so that you can create any kind of website
Many new releases have dramatically changed the WordPress platform for blogging at the time.
Long experience with WordPress blogs must be an advantage. WordPress is by far the cleanest and fastest way to write blog posts, and this feature has been available from the beginning. Some website building tools have a blogging interface added later, with the design and app in mind first.
That's not the case with WordPress. Even if you create a beautiful e-commerce site, you can rest assured that your blog is integral to its development process.
Types of websites you can create with WordPress are:
- Blog
- Business website
- Portfolio
- forum
- E-commerce site
- Rating website
- Membership site
- E-learning module
- Chat room
- Gallery
- Personal website for self-promotion
- Job board
- Business directory
- Q & A websites like Quora
- Website of a non-profit organization for collecting donations
- Wiki and knowledge base
- Media-centric websites like YouTube
- Auction site, coupon site
The above list is endless. The nice thing about WordPress is that you can accomplish this by using simple plugins or themes for forums and e-commerce. For example, suppose you want to create an online portfolio for your web design business. In that case, you can easily create it using various themes: All you need is a small one-time usage fee and uploading demo data. Of course, you can freely change the demo data.
3. Support for many media types
There is no long list of file types supported by WordPress, but the main categories are:
- Image
- Document
- Audio
- Video
You can upload standard files such as jpg and pptx. Some file formats are not allowed, such as SVG, but there is also a solution to this problem.
Notes
WordPress supports almost all file types of media files. However, please follow the rules and legal use only for your own images or media that require free and copyright notices.
4. Easy to learn and wide community
WordPress, an open-source software, is open to anyone. There's a lot to learn about WordPress, but after using the dashboard for about 10 minutes, you'll understand the basics of interface functionality.
WordPress also has formal customer support, of course. Dedicated support through the WordPress forum is available for purchase.
The quantity of materials to learn about WordPress or answer development-related questions is excellent. For example, you can follow blogs such as this one and receive newsletters about WordPress ideas. WP Beginner is known for its many solutions.
The WordPress community can help you in two ways:
- Education to acquire long-term knowledge
- Solutions to WordPress challenges
WordPress education can be free or paid, but one thing is certain: all of the best courses are well organized, informative, and affordable. The WP101 website with a perfect video course on:
- WooCommerce beginner course
- Yoast SEO plugin
These courses are educational and enable you to create your WordPress website. WordPress doesn't have the usual formal support, so you have to ask for blogs, forums, Google, the online community, etc. For development-related questions, ask on the WordPress primary support forum. WordPress fixes, networking with WordPress, localhost installation, and regular installation.WordPress, an open-source software, is open to anyone. There's a lot to learn about WordPress, but after using the dashboard for about 10 minutes, you'll understand the basics of interface functionality.
WordPress also has formal customer support, of course. Dedicated support through the WordPress forum is available for purchase.
The quantity of materials to learn about WordPress or answer development-related questions is excellent. For example, you can follow blogs such as this one and receive newsletters about WordPress ideas. WP Beginner is known for its many solutions.
The WordPress community can help you in two ways:
- Education to acquire long-term knowledge
- Solutions to WordPress challenges
WordPress education can be free or paid, but one thing is certain: all of the best courses are well organized, informative, and affordable. The WP101 website with a perfect video course on:
- WooCommerce beginner course
- Yoast SEO plugin
These courses are educational and enable you to create your WordPress website. WordPress doesn't have the usual formal support, so you have to ask for blogs, forums, Google, the online community, etc. For development-related questions, ask on the WordPress primary support forum. WordPress fixes, networking with WordPress, localhost installation, and regular installation.
5. Websites can be scaled by using themes and Plugins
The theme is the foundation of the website. You can change colours, add logos, and write content for fixed pages and blog posts, but there isn't much design work.
Only one theme is enough when launching a website.
Ever since Google started to reward mobile responsive websites, all WordPress theme developers have released a mobile-friendly design within a year. Therefore, many website owners had to get a new theme. However, website owners are not satisfied with the customer support of the theme developers.
6. Easy to manage
Many website developers sell expensive packages with prepaid and regular maintenance fees. However, the WordPress website is not difficult to manage with proper WordPress education. Website management has the following tasks:
- Make sure the server is OK.
- Check your security regularly.
- Make a backup.
- Update plugins, themes, and WordPress software.
- Manage spam.
- Optimize speed and SEO.
Instead of checking the server yourself, you have to contract with a trusted hosting company to check that your website is always up and running.
7. SEO first
Plugins and online tools provide more detailed features as with any WordPress feature. For example, consider the following SEO-enabled plugins:
- Schema
- Broken Link Checker
- RelNofollow Checkbox
8. Full control over your website
If you search for "website builder" or "website platform" on Google, you will see many results. Besides WordPress, you'll also see competitors. All of the above are good for creating websites.
Therefore, there are the following restrictions:
Since the e-commerce function is a built-in function, it cannot be extended using a plugin.
Code adjustments are limited to what the company tells you. In short, if you need to use an editor to make changes that you can't handle on your own, you have to hire a professional wordpress developer.
You do not completely own the website and its content. Therefore, if you stop paying, all the contents of the files and pages will be lost or retained by the company. With WordPress, you are free to change hosting companies because you own the files.
9. The best blog function in this industry
There were competitors at the time, but there is nothing comparable to the power, elegance and useful tools of the WordPress blog engine. The tools inside the WordPress blog editor are surprisingly useful.
Create a simple personal blog with formatting and media tools. You can even create online magazines by pre-scheduling posts and setting multiple user types, such as contributors and editors. WordPress, which has a preview function and a post content editing function, does not require you to touch any code and is second to none.
WordPress performance, expandability, ease of use, etc., are widely known. Over 39.5% of all websites on the internet indeed use WordPress.
Conclusion
With WordPress, there is a homepage design template (theme) from the beginning, so even beginners can create fashionable and functional sites.
Content such as articles can be easily added, and new functions to the homepage can be easily implemented with a plugin tool, so there are many beneficial features that help you manage your blogs and articles efficiently.
Sunny Chawla
Sunny Chawla is a CEO at AIS Technolabs which is a Web/App Design and Development Company, helping global businesses to grow. He is having expertise in Digital Marketing, Game Development & Product Development.
