WordPress is a Popular CMS (Content Management System) and widely used Platform. Often beginners get confused thinking which blogging platform to use? Most of the professional bloggers prefer WordPress as the best choice for starting a small or medium business online. There are many people out there, who are not aware of the awesome features available on the WordPress Platform. If you are one of those, who is getting confused on which blogging platform to use, then you are in the right place. In this article, we will clear all your doubts on why WordPress is the best.
Though there are many other Blogging platforms out there, but most of them choose WordPress because of its flexibility. WordPress is one such platform that allows you to design websites where people are allowed to post web blogs about the topic they want to write. WordPress was begun as a blogging stage and now it is contending to be the best CMS out there. WordPress is known as the robust CMS that powers many popular online businesses.
This post is especially for those who are stuck at the beginning of the blogging journey. With most of the things and a lot of development, people now have started using WordPress as a platform for designing their websites. Now getting back to the topic “Why WordPress“?
Benefits Of WordPress CMS
WordPress has evolved throughout the years into a versatile content management system. While you can still use WordPress to create a simple blog, now it also allows you to create fully functional websites and mobile applications. So now let us see what WordPress has to offer.
1. Easy and Simple to Use
I know that most of the bloggers are not tech-savvy and want a complete ease of use functionality. This is the best thing of WordPress as it offers full control over your blog. Even if you don’t have experience with content management systems and even you don’t have to be a skilled programmer. WordPress is used by millions of people and almost every day new people are joining the WordPress community by creating their first WP-powered websites. If you have never managed a website before you can edit your website on your own very easily.
2. Lots of Support
When you start your first blog, then you might face a lot of difficulties. You may want someone to help you, that’s why WordPress support forum comes out to be the easiest way to get all the support you need. Even a simple Google search will find your solution related to all things WordPress.
3. It is SEO Friendly
Search engine optimization is the most used word in the world of online business. WordPress is written using standard compliance high-quality code which looks attractive to search engines. Also, this is the most common benefit of WP as WordPress implements a number of search engine-friendly techniques and principles. There are a lot of plugins to take care of your SEO such as SEO By Yoast. Here are some of the articles which may be useful for you after creating WP site.
4. Themes & Plugins
As I said earlier, that WP has lots of support and it is used widely. It has a huge amount of themes and plugins which are available on the online market as free and premium versions. Most people using WordPress are neither web designers nor programmers. As a matter of fact, most bloggers start using WordPress without any prior knowledge of designing websites.
The reason why WordPress is such an ideal candidate is because there are tons of free themes to choose from, so you can give your website any look you want. Whether you want a photography theme, magazine theme, portfolio theme, or an eCommerce theme. Also, if you need a unique theme which is not used by anyone else, then you may hire a developer also. I suggest you to always go for a premium theme because of support.
5. Security
Nothing is secure in this world. Yes! No software package is completely free from all vulnerability. However WP is is known for being secure as there are a lot of tricks by which you can take care of your website security. WordPress is developed with security in mind, so it is considered quite safe and secure to run any website. Here are some of our posts which may help you secure your newly created blog:
6. Multiple Users
This is the most important feature who wants to enable guest posting at their blog. For this WordPress has made it very easy for users to update and access their websites from anywhere in the world. This is a very good idea when you want to make a good number of people working for you, but you can restrict what others can see or do while they are updating their information. So this feature is really goog for many of the bloggers.
7. You can Monetize your Website
This is a dream of every blogger to earn a decent income from their blog. There are many ways by which you can earn revenue from your blog by Google Adsense and many other ad programs. Whether you are selling products directly from your site or monetizing with ads and affiliate offers, WordPress makes it easy.
8. WordPress.com or Self-Hosted WordPress
Ahh! The great confusion comes here. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform. It’s completely free to use, and it’s easy to get started. If you plan to start with Non-self hosted WordPress you may have an address like www.yousitename.wordpress.com
There are also various disadvantages of WordPress.com blogs. Although you can use affiliate links to make money promoting products, but you are not allowed to place banner ads or sign up to third-party networks such as Google AdSense. Also, there is a limit for using plugins.
WordPress.org (Self-hosted) uses exactly the same framework but is installed on your own Web hosting space. A WordPress.org blog is completely your own, and you are free to sell advertising and use it exactly as you wish. Me as a blogger, personally recommend you to go with a self-hosted WordPress site for which you can get complete freedom.
I hope you liked this article, Do share your views on why you like WordPress and how you are using it to grow your online business. If you find this article informative, do share it with your friends too. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below.
Hello dear Siddharth,
I found this article really very helpful. But one thing I can add you- there is no any coding knowledge required for starting a wordpress business site and it’ll be a great matter of beginners. Thanks for sharing the knowledge…!
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I’m glad this post helped you and I completely agree with you, there is no such skill required for starting a WordPress site. But most of the times, newbies face a lot of errors and they have no idea how to fix them. For this if they have a cup of knowledge about PHP and HTML then their life becomes easier. Also, you can easily customize your template the way you want if you have a little bit of knowledge. Anyways Thank You for sharing your views. Stay tuned for my upcoming posts.
I think the fact that WP is free is also a great reason why many choose it. I mean if I am going to start an online business and I am doing my best to save on expenses, a free and robust platform would be the best choice right?
Yes, Of course, you are 100% right. Most of the newbie bloggers want to start with WordPress because it is free, also it has complete flexibility and unlimited possibilities. It also has unlimited support through tons of forums. Therefore, you can always choose WordPress as your CMS to start your online business to save most of your time & money.
Thank You for your time for commenting, hope to see you again 🙂
Hi Fakhuddin Manik,
No doubt, WordPress is most powerful CMS. I really like to work only on this CMS and Currently I have 3 websites on WordPress. Best things are it’s security and easy to use as you described in this post.
I liked it because of plugin, because plugins helps us a lot to make post seo friendly.
Any way thanks Fakhuddin for sharing your knowledge with us.
Regards:
Areesha Noor!
WordPress is the best solution for bloggers but, my website loads very slowly. can you suggest me the best hosting provider for WordPress which loads fast?