Have you ever noticed why WordPress is the best blogging platform for a blogger? There are different way and platform available to create a blog but why most of the bloggers use WordPress? If you are familiar with the term blogging then you also know about WordPress. WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management System used by millions of people to run their blog and website. It’s a free CMS and easy to use. There are also many more incredible reasons available. Here is the top 10 reasons, Why WordPress is The Best Blogging Platform?
WordPress is Free CMS
You may know that, most of the people use blogger as their first blogging platform because of blogger is totally free and never ask you for a penny. Blogger provides free hosting, you need to buy only a domain for a blog and you will get most of the blogging features free from this platform, but now-a-days, most of the people fail to build a successful blog using blogger.
On the other hand, WordPress is one of the most popular free Content Management System, which you can use freely as your blogging platform. Just you need to buy a domain and hosting, all other elements and features like WordPress Themes, Plugins you will get free (Premium available also).
Easy and Quick Instrallation
WordPress is a popular CMS because of its easy and quick installation process. When you buy a domain and hosting then you can install WordPress within 3-5 min which may be not possible in any other blogging platform. Now-a-days, most of the hosting Cpanel contain Softaculous Apps Installer where you can easily install your WordPress blog easily.
Standard Features
WordPress is so popular for its so many standard features, for a number of years, the features list has grown and old features modified. They update their security system which is most important for a blog or website. On the other hand, they also improve several setting and configuration system which are really easy to use and secure.
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Easy to Customize and Configure
Dashboard feature is one of the best ways to customize and configure your blog or website easily and quickly and WordPress is best for Dashboard features. WordPress offers thousands of themes and plugins which you can easily install and configure (Note: Free themes are not perfect for a standard Blog). There are also so many features for easy customization like menu configuration and customization, image editing and integration etc.
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Themes and Plugin Features
When you start a new blog, design and development is one of the important primary task you need to do properly to make your blog user friendly and secure. You will find a lot of free and premium themes and plugins which you can use for your blog. Most of the themes and plugins are easy to install and configure so you don’t need to be an expert in coding or hire a web developer. Just choose a perfect theme and some essential plugins and install theme with the help of some tutorial (If you are new with this CMS). You will find a lot of tutorials based on WordPress on the web.
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Easy to Add and Edit Content
It’s easy to add or edit content in WordPress. People who know the basic use of computer they must know the use of Microsoft Word. Just write your content in Microsoft Word file, then copy it and then go to your WordPress dashboard and click to create a new page or post and paste it, when you click on publish, it’s done. Your content is live now on your blog/site.
You may need to edit your blog post or page and you can do it easily. Just go to your blog dashboard and find the post or page you need to update. Click on edit page or post, edit your content and finally click on update.
Multiple User/Author Function
When you run a blog or website for small to medium business or organization, then you need to more than one person to monitor, add or edit content or marketing purpose, and WordPres is one of the best platforms for multiple user or author function. You can easily add more than one user, to add multiple user, go to the dashboard and then click on User and add new user. You can also select the role of new user of your blog. You can select different users for administrative purpose, contributor purpose, author’s purpose, etc.
User Friendly
You need to make your blog/website user friendly as much as possible to give the best user experience for your visitor and WordPress gives you the freedom to make your blog user friendly that may not possible with any other CMS. You will find a lot of plugins and tutorial which helps you to make your blog user friendly.
The dashboard is also easy to use and you can easily change any setting, create or edit new post which is really user friendly for blog/website owners.
Best SEO Friendly CMS
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important fact for a blog or website. Every blog owner and webmaster try to get good result in Search Engine Result Page (SERP) and you can easily do it when you use WordPress for your blogging platform. You will find a lot SEO plugins free for both on-page and off-page SEO and easily configure and use them.
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Easy to Monetize
Everyone wants to make money from their blog and blogging is really one of the easiest ways to earn money easily and quickly. Most of the advertising companies like BuySellAds, CJ, Click Bank, Google Adsense, Amazon like WordPress blog and most of them lunched plugins for WordPress blog.
What Do You Do?
When you read this post carefully, then you must choose WordPress as your blogging platform. Everyone has their own opinion and you may choose a different one for you.
Have I missed any point that is important one? Please let me know by commenting below. 😀
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Hi Fakharuddin,
All points are must acceptable. There are lot platforms available to create website/blog. But among all of these wordpress is the best one. Blogger.com is also easy to use, but it can be useful for newbie bloggers to get trained about blogging. They can also use this free service to post details about their company. Anyway thanks for sharing this. Worth reading. Sharing is Caring. So i do share this post to make it useful to others.
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Hi Nirmal, Glad to see you here and Thanks for sharing it with others.
HI,
I love WordPress for it’s easily customization. Previously I used blogger and I find my self in trouble when some one say to change the appearance. Thanks for the information mate.
Regards!!
Bhavesh