If you are building a new website, you may be asking yourself, “Why Use WordPress?” If you have an interest in starting a website and you are unsure of which platform to use to run it, you should do yourself a favor and choose WordPress. There are other platforms that you can use (like Joomla, Drupal, .ASP, Concrete5, etc.) but WordPress should be your choice. Over 25% of all websites are now built with WordPress!
Here are three reasons that any other option would be a huge mistake.
Ease Of Use
One problem that people have with some platforms is the level of difficulty. When things are overly complicated, it makes it much harder for them to manage their site as well as they could. WordPress is very simple to use. Setting things up, managing them and keeping everything updated is a breeze.
Themes
There are thousands of themes available for your website, which means that you will not be stuck using some generic looking template. The best thing about this is the fact that many of them are free. When using some platforms you are forced to use a plain theme unless you are willing to pay a premium; this is not the case here at all.
Plugins
When you are creating a website, it is a good idea to do everything you can to make it more appealing. There are countless plugins available to those with WordPress websites, and it would be a huge mistake to ignore this. There are some plugins that you will have to pay for if you want to use them, but there are many others that can be used without you paying anything at all.
There is no reason to consider any other platform when you are creating a website. After reading this, it should be perfectly clear to see why WordPress is so popular. Do yourself a favor, follow all of the thousands of people who sign up every day and give this a try. You will not regret it.
I’ve been a WordPress girl from the start, Paul. It sure is easy and customizable so why look anywhere else. 馃檪
Awesome job, Barbara! You are already ahead of the game! Keep up the good work!
I am so grateful for WordPress! Love love love it! Great post. Thanks for sharing. Here from the UBC!
Glad you made it here, Alexis! Hope you are enjoying the Ultimate Blog Challenge! Stick around and come back for more info on everything you are doing online as well as WordPress.
Paul, a great post! I got started on WP for blogging in about 2009 and am now designing my own website using it. Delicious fun! I hope you’ll post a lot about WP this month.
Thanks, Kebba! I certainly will be writing abotu all aspects of your online business – much of it around WordPress!
When I started my blogging journey then my first question was, Why I should choose WordPress and not other CMS softwares.
I searched a lot about it on Google at that time and I found that everybody is recommending to use WordPress and I started doing the same.
Now today I know that why people should choose WordPress. Because WordPress is an independent and easy to use content management system.
The best thing about it is, We can bring any feature in our website with just using a single plugin. That’s really good. 馃榾
I am using WordPress since last 3 years and I loved it. 馃榾
That is so true, John! When searching for plugins, make sure you test it out and it works the way you want it to!