Why Use Wordpress?
Jan 5th, 2010
With website technology changing daily, choosing the right software that organizes and runs a website is important. Wordpress is a simple, expandable, online publishing platform and CMS (content management system) that runs many popular websites including CNN, Playstation and the New York Times. View more notable Wordpress sites.
More good reasons to use Wordpress for building your new website:
- Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software built on PHP/MySQL and licensed under GPL. - User Friendly
The administration section is easy to navigate and edit your website content. - Templates
There are thousands of free themes to choose from. Visit the Wordpress template library. - Plugins Extend Functionality
WordPress plugins allow you to do add special functionality to your website. The most popular plugins address the following items:- RSS feed
Calendar
Contact form
Podcasting
Shopping cart
Events schedule
Twitter feeds
Search Engine Optimization
Google Anaylitics
Mobile friendly
Visit the Wordpress plugins library.
- Standards Compliant
WordPress follows all the Web Standards and keeps your website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website. - 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.
During the last 12 months, all of my work website projects are Wordpress powered sites.
