Reasons To Choose WordPress for Web Development

WordPress is one of the world's most flexible and widely used content management systems (CMS). But what is that of a content manager? And what are the advantages of using it to create my website? WordPress is a system that allows us to create all kinds of websites: blogs, online stores, corporate websites, forums, social networks, etc., managing all our publications from an administration panel.

1. Free and Open Source

WordPress is free and developed under the GPL license, allowing people and organizations to use, study, share, and modify the software. Much of the project has been developed by the WordPress community, people who volunteer time and effort to test each release, and remain associated with Automattic, the company founded by one of its creators.

2. Most Used CMS

Approximately 1 in 5 sites on the Internet has been created using WordPress, with more than 12 million web pages and 46 million users worldwide, according to data from Builtwidth.com. In addition, many large international companies use WordPress, such as eBay, PlayStation, CNN, The New York Times, BBC America, and Linkedin.

1. That WordPress is one of the most used CMS does not bring advantages for the simple fact of being one, but it entails several significant facts:

1. 2. Consider that not everyone must be wrong if so many people and organizations have chosen this system.
2. 3. Its enormous popularity is perhaps due to other advantages such as its open license, ease of use, and its characteristics as a CMS.
3. The extensive community of developers and professionals related to the platform who work daily provides it with new features and greater security. It will be able to quickly resolve any doubts and problems arising when we launch our web project.

3. Easy To Use

WordPress has a very fast learning curve. Its administration panel is intuitive and allows you to have good control of the platform in a very short time. It is easy to customize and manage. Editing content in WordPress, publishing new posts and pages, or adding images is as easy as doing it in a word processor. In a very visual way, we will manage the pages of our site and the menus, and we will easily add images, videos, and links, among other tasks.

However, its usability is not detrimental to its power, being one of the complete tools to boost your business on the Internet.

4. Thousands Of Plugins and Themes

WordPress relies on two key elements to create and customize a website: themes and plugins. The themes allow us, broadly speaking, to modify the design of a website in 5 seconds. We can find countless themes with different designs that adapt to the web we want to create, changing the page's appearance at any time without affecting the content. In its official repository, you can find more than 2,700 free themes. You can also buy a paid or premium theme or, if you want, a website with advanced features and not have problems when you want to make changes in the future.

Plugins add extra features to the website, and their installation process is just as simple. Currently, you can find more than 34,000 plugins in the WordPress repository with which you can create forums, share content on social networks, insert photo galleries, create forms, improve the positioning of your website, increase its security, create an online store or even a social network within your website. It is advisable to make moderate use of them since they can harm the fluidity with which our page loads and the proper functioning of our site by finding incompatibilities between them. In the following articles about WordPress, we will give you some recommendations when choosing a plugin for your website.

5. SEO Friendly

WordPress is the CMS that will best position your content on the Internet. Its programming structure is very attractive for search engines and ensures that the content published under this platform is indexed more quickly by search engines. WordPress respects the W3C standards, is compatible with all browsers, performs automatic pings when the content of your website is updated, allows you to have friendly URLs, use tags and categories, and... if all this is not enough, you can install specific plugins to add more SEO options. To put it in some way, your WordPress page will get along very well with Google.

6. Secure

WordPress has been harshly criticized for its vulnerability, and in many places, it has been heard and read that WordPress is insecure without being true. A priori, any system in which communication between the end user and the server that manages the databases is likely to be.

However, WordPress has evolved a great deal in recent years. Today, it is a compact system that is constantly being revised, on which a huge community of developers works every day, using their ingenuity to correct possible errors and security flaws. Together with the frequent updates of the system, we can find many plugins that allow us to manage our WordPress security. However, it is always advisable to be advised by specialized developers who help us to fortify our website against possible attackers. There are also specific plugins that help us make automatic backups. We will soon dedicate a special publication to this section on our website.

7. Ease Of Maintenance

Updates to the platform and the themes and plugins we have installed will periodically appear, correcting aspects such as security, performance, and new functions. The system will notify us that these updates are available, and with a single click, we can install them from the administration panel.

In addition, if we need it, WordPress allows us to migrate all our content to another server easily.

8. Scalability

WordPress allows your website to grow with your business and be as big as you want. If you want, you can start by creating a corporate website with information about your company and a contact form. Later you will be able to add all the functions you need:

• 1. A blog.
• 2. A gallery with your projects.
• 3. An online store integrating perfectly into that basic website with which you started.

4. The possibilities of expanding the functions and design of your page will be practically endless.

9. Save Money And Time

WordPress allows you to develop a web page in a very short time with very agile development. Its ease of use and the possibility of self-managing your website and programming new content make it a platform that favors productivity, allowing you to manage your time and save costs. Even for custom developments, it is a clear advantage and a considerable saving of time and money for our clients. We can have your website ready in just two weeks from the project's approval.

10. Multilingual Sites

Choosing WordPress makes it easy to create multilingual sites with its configuration or the use of popular translation plugins.

11. Stability

WordPress has a stable code base, strong infrastructure, and ongoing development, making it one of the most stable and secure software programs.

12. Powerful Tool For Content Marketing

WordPress is a tool of choice for advertisers and publishers. It has built-in state-of-the-art tools such as preview, schedule a post, reviews, and much more that will make life for your editorial team much easier.

13. Construction of A Blog In 5 Minutes

Surely you have recently heard about the importance of having a blog on your page. If you do it right, you will attract new customers, and you will be able to position yourself in the search engines to appear in the first google searches.

14. High Degree Customization

There is a WordPress theme for all kinds of tastes and styles. Let's say they are templates that display the content the way you want. There are all kinds: magazines, online stores, blogs, and photography. There are also many free themes, although investing money in this aspect is highly recommended since paid themes offer great advantages over free ones. The most used page to search for these themes, or themes in their English version, is Themeforest.

The best thing about this theme system is that the content and the design go separately. If you want to change the design of your website, you won't have to re-upload all the content or change the 'theme' of your website.

Conclusion

Suppose you are a business owner looking to have a website from WordPress. In that case, you need to contact a custom WordPress development company to have a beautiful website designed per your requirement. WordPress is the best technology for web application development, and it would help generate more leads and revenue for your business.

Ayatas Technologies is an experienced Digital Commerce Agency based in Sacramento, specialized in Magento, Woo Commerce, and Shopify eCommerce solutions for various industries.