Do you know WordPress powers 35% of the internet in 2020?
Yes, all websites on the Internet. This CMS has quickly become a favourite among both web-savvy users and web-novices alike because of how simple-yet-powerful it is.
Still sitting surrounded by the fence of doubts of which platform to choose for your business website development? Consider the following 14 reasons why WordPress website development is a worth.
#1 IT DOESN’T COST ANYTHING TO USE.
It’s a fact that WordPress doesn’t charge a penny which is a major incentive. Also if your WordPress website has more traffic, they don’t charge you anything extra. We all know that WordPress is an open source and hence we can alter or improve the source code to meet any of your requirements with website’s functionality or look!
#2 IT IS SUPREME IN THE CMS MARKET.
WordPress is not just a popular CMS but it is blowing out the competition. If you count only the CMS-built sites, then about 60% of them are WordPress. The second most used CMS, Wix has a 7.2% market share. Closely followed by Squarespace, with a 3.72% market share and Joomla’s 3.45%.
#3 NO CONFIGURATION NEEDED. READY TO USE.
Soon after the installation, you can start using the WordPress CMS. No additional configuration needed apart from your customizations and plug-ins set up. It’s pretty easy to use because most of the things already come with the installation like social media integration, media feeds, comments, etc.
#4 COMPLETELY SEO FRIENDLY.
Popular search engines like Google and Bing, tend to rank website that use WordPress than those that don’t. This is nothing like a magic, but it’s the CMS’ framework that makes it easy for the search engines’ spider to crawl the web pages.
#5 IT’S COMPLETELY FLEXIBLE.
WordPress is really flexible enough to adapt and accommodate all the needs through the plugins and extensions. This makes it more favourable CMS for a small business website, personal blog or an eCommerce website development.
#6 IT HAS UNLIMITED CUSTOMIZATION.
With WordPress you can make any number of customizations to the theme and make your website to look the way you want. You can add or extend certain features to make the website function just as you want.
#7 PARALLAX EFFECT.
Parallax effect is one of the trendy effects in UI that recently gained popularity. You can add stunning parallax effects to your website with their plugins like The Parallaxer WP.
#8 HIGHLY MOBILE RESPONSIVE.
With WordPress ready templates/themes, you don’t have to overhaul your entire site to make responsive on mobile and tablets. Moreover, Google has clearly warned that any website that is not designed for mobile (is responsive) will not be a part of the ranking factors. They will rank them lower in the search results.
WordPress also has an option for websites to be viewed in “mobile view” for themes that aren’t responsive.
#9 USER FRIENDLY CMS.
One of the most common reason for any business to choose WordPress is because of the simplicity in using the CMS. Any novice user can access and work with the back-end. The platform is very much intuitive.
#10 LOTS OF ONLINE SUPPORT AND FORUMS ARE AVAILABLE.
Simply search you queries + WordPress and you will be provided with lots of guides and tutorials to help you solve your issues. You can find lots and lots or interactive WordPress community.
#11 EASY SUPPORT FOR MULTIMEDIA.
Website with good number of multimedia gets the lowest bounce rates. One of the good feature of WordPress is that it allows you to easily integrate multimedia either by uploading your own or by using the embedded code using the HTML editor.
#12 ENORMOUS E-COMMERCE WEBSITE SOLUTIONS.
You can convert your website into an online store using the popular plugins like WooCommerce. From product listing to the cart and checkout page, entirely will be take care. All you have to do is the modifications or customizations you need with your online store.
#13 MULTIPLE ACCESS ROLES CAPABILITY.
If you are not only the one who runs or manages the website, you can grant access to different users based on different types of rights.
#14 OF COURSE IT IS SECURE AND SAFE.
With the popularity, comes the interest of the hackers. But one of the reason why WordPress is still being loved that the WordPress staff constantly updates the CMS with all the security plugins. Yes of course one should only install security plugins from the trusted developers, preferably while directly logged into WordPress itself.
WRAPPING UP…
WordPress is a popular way of building website for above mentioned reasons. Be it any type of website, a blog or an eCommerce store, WordPress is the best option. If you still think of anything that you want but WordPress cannot provide, do talk to us.
