WordPress was first released on May 27, 2003, and since then it helped numerous businesses to go online. WordPress is one of the technological innovations in the IT industry that contributed massively to building the Internet today we have.
To be precise WordPress contributed to building approx. 44% of websites are available today, which means half of the internet is working on WordPress today.
Why WordPress?
WordPress is one of the best content management systems available in the market with a massive market share. It is the most suitable website-building tool for small to big size business houses.
But what makes WordPress stand out from its competitors? Let’s see –
1. Open-source
WordPress is an open-source software product which means users can install, modify as per their requirement, and distribute this custom version to other users and communities. The source code for open source programs is available for free to download and accessible to everyone hence countless WordPress experts can create a wonderful platform and related tools, and plugins and make them available to all users at no cost.
So if you have a no or low budget to spend on your website-related expenses WordPress is the best choice for every business owner and developer too.
2. Very easy to learn
WordPress offers a very simple user-friendly dashboard. Menu-based options to create a new blog post, and install additional WordPress Plugins to extend the functionality of the blog while having no coding knowledge are the key features.
Technically speaking a blog website can be set just within a few minutes with its basic version even when the user has zero coding or programming skills.
3. Offer Content Ownership
There are plenty of CMS products available that let you create websites or blogs online in a free or chargeable way but the catch is they are not completely free. You will be restricted on certain operations obviously, and the major one is the content you created is not with you – they are owned by your host.
4. Full customization support
WordPress is open-source which attracts millions of active developers and numerous communities across the world contributing to developing additional WordPress Plugins, themes, and related tools.
WordPress themes are ready-made templates available from the official website and also from private developers which offer a lot of flexibility to change the appearance and user experience behavior of your website or blog.
WordPress plugins help to extend the functionality without any code changes. There are thousands of free WordPress plugins available on the official website of WordPress.
5. SEO-Friendly
Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is a very important part of a business to reach potential customers and gain organic traffic which converts to business hence, the platform we choose to host our web product must be friendly with the most advanced search engine algorithms – and, WordPress beats these expectations.
WordPress offers many in-build SEO capabilities which can be extended with many advanced SEO plugins available for us. Properly planned SEO will make search engines crawl your site and index the contents to rank high,
6. Security Capabilities
As stated earlier WordPress is open source and the most widely used CMS platform which makes WordPress the most targeted platform by hackers.
WordPress community constantly works to provide up-to-date security features and patches to keep the platform bug-free and secure.
The same applies to any plugin components you are using on your website or blog. You need to make sure to keep all installed products updated to the latest version to keep hackers away from your business portals.
7. Active Community Support
WordPress has a huge community of contributors working to keep this platform secured, and available for free. You can support anytime you need from these community forums across the world.
