Almost a third of all websites run on WordPress, making it the internet’s favourite content management system (CMS).
Here are nine reasons why the world loves WordPress:
Widgets enable you to easily add tag clouds, maps, menus, contact forms and pretty much any other kind of content and features to various locations on a website.
Open source The WordPress source code may be modified by anyone. Countless themes and plugins are available as a result.
Responsive websites adapt to the size and shape of the screen being used to view them – and WordPress handles this beautifully.
Dashboard The WordPress admin area looks the same across all sites built with it and this familiarity is a much-loved feature.
Plugins Just like apps for your smartphone, WordPress plugins can perform a wide range of tasks to make your site look and behave exactly how you want.
Roles There are six pre-defined user roles within WordPress, each of which is allowed to perform a set of tasks.
Extendibility WordPress is incredibly flexible – you’re able to add complex galleries, social networking, forums, social media widgets, spam protection, calendars, forms and much more.
SEO – WordPress makes it easy for Google to crawl and index the millions of sites built with it. Google loves content, and WordPress was made for content marketing.
Size doesn’t matter. From Disney, Vogue, Microsoft and Mercedes to the smallest blogs – they all use WordPress.
While WordPress.com and WordPress.org are both free to use, this post refers to the software available at WordPress.org, which is designed to be used with your own domain name (such as yourname.co.uk) and hosting.
