WordPress Benefits

5 March 2014
by Gillian Brennan

There are many ways to create a website, but the WordPress content management system (CMS) is probably the most popular option available. WordPress-built sites offer many advantages and, although other CMS are available, alternative platforms fail to offer enough features and options to compete with WordPress. As professional website developers based in Cork, we make use of WordPress on a daily basis.

Some WordPress Benefits

Quick and Easy to Install

Sites created using a CMS have always been quicker and easier to build than sites created using an HTML editor, but WordPress installation can now be faster and easier than ever before because many web hosts provide “one-click” WordPress script installation. It must be noted that the same option is also offered for many other CMS though, so this should not be a primary deciding factor when choosing to say “yay” or “nay” to WordPress.

Easy to Add Fresh Content

As with any system, a learning curve is involved, but it is easy to add fresh content to a WordPress site. It’s just a case of logging into the site’s admin area and adding a new post or page. Uploading fresh media is likewise as simple. Once again though, this is true of many competing CMS.

Easy to Update

WordPress is constantly improving and the latest versions notify the webmaster whenever updates are required by placing alerts in the control panel. Updating is easy because all the webmaster needs to do is choose to update and let the system do all the work.

Plugins and Themes

The availability of numerous plugins and themes is one of the biggest WordPress benefits of all. Thousands of themes and plugins are available to download (for free) from WordPress.org and many more can be purchased from any number of other sources. This abundance of plugins and themes is probably the main reason why WordPress is often considered to be the king of CMS.

Other WordPress Benefits

Open Source: WordPress is freely available under a GPLv2 license and can be modified and distributed without issue (as long as the restrictions of the license are adhered to). The same can be said for many WordPress plugins and themes
The WordPress Community: The WordPress community is huge, so it is easy to find help and advice from community sites and forums.

There are, of course, many other WordPress benefits, but WordPress sites are not perfect. We’ll look at some WordPress negatives in the next article.

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About Author

Gillian Brennan

Gillian Brennan is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist and has been very successful in creating and maintaining strong relationships with her clients. With a Computing background from Cork Institute of Technology, Gillian has over 20 years experience in the IT sector. Working in both Technology and Customer Service capacities, Gillian’s roles included IT Support, Network and Systems Engineering, Computer Retail Management and Training in companies such as Summit Tecnology Inc, BG Turnkey Ltd and Compu B Ltd. Gillian’s technical ability in the IT area, along with a long history of customer service allow her to understand her clients’ needs and offer both practical and effective online solutions to fit their budget.

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