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Whats so special about WordPress Mix?
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WordPress
Looking for developing website confused which platform to use? There are so many options available in the market but you need to make a proper choice to before selecting on. Out of all options WordPress has been the most trending Website creation CMS written in PHP.
What can you do with WordPress?
You can create beautiful Informative Website, Dynamic Website, Blog Website and even Ecommerce Store with WordPress CMS.
So What is WordPress Content Management System (CMS)? Why it is so famous?
It come into existence in 2003 as made its name for one of the most popular blog posting site and with steady graduation added the service of WordPress business website and design tools and since then it has been the most popular among beginners and even professionals. One of the exciting features of using WordPress as a CMS is it provides an excellent platform for Search engine optimization (SEO) which enables you to increase your visibility on the net.
WordPress is one of the most easiest and successful CMS to develop beautiful Websites, Blogs, Ecommerce stores. It has some beautiful themes to make your page look attractive, unique and the best thing is that it is the easiest CMS to develop and publish your website. It does not require high coding experience to develop it.
Some of the Key WordPress advantages which are as follows:
1. It’s Open Source
As mentioned earlier WordPress is open source CMS which can be used whenever and wherever you are and not just use it you can also change some code or design if you feel so. As there are lots of people working on it, it allows you to get a new updated theme or code every minute and another striking feature is it is free to access WordPress which reduces the cost of developing website.
2. Variety of Custom WordPress Themes available for Free as well as in Premium versions:
There are thousands of attractive WordPress website themes to make your page look beautiful and different. Themes in the WordPress is broadly categorized into two free and premium. Premium is the paid one which is very exclusive and can make your page look wow pre-loaded with lot of features. You can also customize WordPress theme to create your own theme using WordPress CMS allowing you to add new features and make your WordPress Website look as you want it.
3. SEO Friendly
WordPress website development also allows you to increase you visibility on internet as WordPress is also known for its SEO friendliness. It has various plugins to make sure your page is well managed from SEO perspective. Yoast SEO is one of the most famous plugin available in free and paid formats.
4. Easy to Publish
It has been so many times despite of having quality content you face lots of difficulties in publishing your Website or blog. WordPress gives you the easiest platform to post a Website or blog. It offers you various options like to insert picture or video and even allows you to do formatting for your content with ease.
5. Great Publishing Tool
There are many features available in WordPress to make your content look right, as quality content also need some quality formatting. It gives you what is called WordPress admin panel which allows you to save your work and carry on from where you left it also allow you to make your content public or private. So you can publish your content with ease by following few steps.
6. Multi-Website Development Environment
From developers point of view it allows you to create and maintain multiple websites from single ID, it has an effective WordPress support system which allows developer to shift from one website to another with ease.
7. Strong Communication channels
Once you write a blog the job is not done, you need to know what people thing about your content and how much they agrees to it, for that they have a good comment section which allows the reader to post their views and to have a healthy conversation. It also has a strong support system which gives quick and effective solution to all your problems.
8. Easy Transfer
If you are already working on some other platform or blogging website but are facing too many difficulties to work on it then WordPress provides easy and secure way to transform your blog or unfinished website to it, which allows you to work hassle free and explore new and exciting WordPress premium features.
9. Lot’s of free and paid Plugins available
One of the most striking features of using WordPress for any business is it has huge number of plugins available to create your website which suffice variety of business requirements. That’s why it is one of the best CMS for Start-ups to Large Enterprises. The main highlight is that most of the plugins are free of charge. You can even create your own WordPress plugin. Well you can always use some of the most popular plugins which are as follows:
1. Everest Forms (FREE)
2. Jetpack (Freemium)
3. Akismet (Freemium)
4. Yoast SEO (Freemium)
5. User Registration (Freemium)
6. Google XML Sitemaps (FREE)
7. WordPress Nivo Slider Plugin (Freemium)
10. WordPress WooCommerce plugin to make online shopping websites
WooCommerce is an Ecommerce plugin built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress that gives both store owners and developers complete control. It transforms your WordPress website into a fully featured online store.
11. Robust and Scalable CMS
It can handle large amount of traffic for any type of website whether it is Online Shopping Store, Blog, Dynamic or Informative websites. It can handle lot of stuffs behind the scenes and gives ease to its developers.
It allows you to create your own content and add and manage various types of media. Most of the times you don’t need to hard code everything it’s just drag n drop or it finishes tasks with few clicks and little bit of coding for desired result.
CONCLUSION
These where some of the key features which can say you why WordPress is so special and often used by, various other features like multi-language, Easy Menu management, application framework also adds on to the reputation of WordPress. Every website of any type can be made on WordPress with ease without any restrictions, even people with little amount of coding experience or knowledge can make a website or post a blog on WordPress. If you decide to Do it yourself (DIY) way one might face high learning curve and lot of technical terms to be understood before using such an well-detailed CMS. It’s always best to hire a professional agency to avoid complexities in a longer run.