WordPress, what was that? If you’re also one of those who really don’t have any idea about WordPress or know little about it, then don’t worry because you’re not alone. There are still many people who are not familiar with WordPress and its exciting features; that’s why I have decided to create a dedicated article on WordPress only.
If you’re a blogger or read about blogging, you must be familiar with WordPress because WordPress is currently the best content management system with a 66% market share. And you will be surprised to know that WordPress developer powers approximately 30% of all sites on the web. Yes, even I was surprised, but it’s true. Thousands of people, including experienced or beginners, use WordPress to create blogs, websites to get on the first page of Google search results. But what features are making them fall for WordPress. Let’s know in detail!
WordPress is an open-source software
The best part of WordPress is that it’s an open-source software which means it is available for everyone. Anyone can create, redistribute, and edit blogs for absolutely free on WordPress. It is easy to use because it does not require any codes and designing experience to work on WordPress. Free installation codes are available, and you can simply download them from its official sites and use them for business websites, eCommerce stores, Blogs, Portfolios, Forums, Social networks, etc., free for an unlimited time period.
WordPress to create any website
WordPress is the best platform to create any website for your business due to its highly supportive features and popularity on the Internet. Earlier, WordPress was used to create and publish blogs, but now, it started offering much more than that with the advancement of technology. Now you can easily create eCommerce stores, build social networks, blog, portfolio, etc., on WordPress. It supports all browsers, including Chrome, Mozilla, Internet Explorer, etc. There are also thousands of pre-built WordPress website themes and templates available for various business types. With the help of which, you can create your own website without having any technical designing knowledge.
Easy to customize
Theme and website customization is another interesting feature of WordPress. It offers a number of options to customize your WordPress site, from changing colors to designing a whole website from scratch. WordPress offers everything. And the best part is that you don’t have to be experienced or need any coding knowledge to do that.
WordPress provides you a control panel and a dashboard where you can do all essential customizations. You can try various designing templates, experiment with multiple color schemes, submit blogs and website content, create product catalogs, and much more. You can also customize the whole theme by easy coding as per your business requirements if you’re an expert.
WordPress is SEO-friendly
According to Google, WordPress is highly friendly to search engines and ranks almost all search engines. So, if your goal is to achieve a higher ranking on search engine pages, it is recommended to go for WordPress. Google considers many factors to rank a website on search engine pages, such as website loading speed, quality of the content, On-page data, plugins, social media links, and many other website elements. WordPress sites can quickly meet all these ranking factors and make your website ranked on search engine pages.
WordPress also offers many plugins to optimize your website and make it search engine friendly. With the help of these SEO plugins, you can optimize website content, website images, loading speed of the website, on-page data, keyword optimizations, track your website performance on search engine pages, etc. So, all in all, it’s a profitable deal.
WordPress is highly user-friendly
Coding while creating a website can be annoying if you don’t have technical knowledge like me. And every time you need an expert to fix even small errors in the website. This is another reason why WordPress is gaining popularity these days. It is easy to install and use, loaded with hundreds of features. There are many other inbuilt facilities for publishing blogs, creating SEO-friendly content, RSS feeds, revisions, comments, etc., you can use with complete control. Once installed, you use all its features to create and publish blogs. So what are you waiting for? Get ready to start blogging or running an online business without any coding.
It’s a multimedia platform
WordPress is much more than just publishing the text online. It supports images, text, and other forms of multimedia content to make your content more attractive, readable, and reachable. Adding images, graphics, and tutorial videos to your WordPress blogs helps grab readers’ attention and increase the quality of your content. WordPress offers different multimedia sections and offers enough space where you can upload video, images, graphics, graphs, etc. and use them later on your blogs. And optimizing this multimedia content is even easier on WordPress sites.
Quality is always a top priority
WordPress believes in putting quality over quantity. This is the reason it always keeps updating its tools and technology to offer the best user experience to its users. WordPress always considers all the crucial factors that can help improve your website quality on search engine pages. It follows high-security standards so that you can run your business more confidently without any vulnerability.
Final thought
I think this is where I can finish the introductory article on things you should need to know about WordPress. I hope I did not scare you with an abundance of all these terms mentioned above and set a set of technologies. I hope this information adds value to your knowledge. It was just an introductory article where we mentioned the benefits of using WordPress for businesses. I want to emphasize that this article is my subjective opinion about what you need to be able to use to create your template for WordPress. You can and should always strive to learn more about WordPress from various sources to explore its exciting features for website designing.
