15 Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress

The benefits of using WordPress on your website are almost too many to count. Right off the bat, if you have an idea for a website but have virtually no idea how to get that website up and fully operational, WordPress is your answer. Originally launched in 2003, WordPress has become perhaps the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. It’s quick to set up, easy to use and most importantly, it’s free.

In a nutshell, WordPress is an open source blogging platform that you can use for a personal or business website. It is completely user-friendly and has tons of support. You don’t need to know technical jargon or spend hours tinkering with code to make your website do all kinds of cool things. While there are countless reasons why using WordPress is a smart move, here is my list of the top 10 reasons why you should use WordPress on your website.

1- It’s Free and Easy

Whether you’re a blogger or just launching a new online business, the fact that WordPress is 100 percent free is extremely beneficial. Best of all, you never have to worry about hidden charges if your site becomes more popular than expected. WordPress will always be free for you to use.

If you’re reading this article you already have everything you need to get started. Head over to WordPress.com and signup for a free account. You’ll have your website up and running in about two minutes. For a small additional fee you can even host your domain name there.

Most web hosting companies today allow their clients to install WordPress on their websites (it is called WordPress Hosting). With the click of a mouse, you can easily add pictures, articles and other content. The control room of a WordPress blog is called the “Dashboard.” It is easy to navigate and intuitive.

2- WordPress is good for both your blog and your website

It’s true that WordPress started out as a blogging system, but that was ages ago. Over the years WordPress has evolved into a full-featured web content management system. That means you can use WordPress to manage your whole website, not just your blog. Of course if you just want to blog, you can use WordPress that way too.

3- It is expandable and supported

Currently there are over 30,000 plugins available for WordPress. Chances are, if there’s an application you want your website to do, there’s a WordPress plugin for it. At the WordPress website alone there are almost 8,000 WordPress Plugins

WordPress can handle large amounts of web traffic and is able to ride out any traffic spike without a problem.

4 -Thousands of professionally designed themes — many of them available for free.

WordPress themes allow you to have a professionally designed website without the pain or expense of hiring a professional web designer.

There are over two thousand free themes available in the official WordPress Theme Directory and even more available for fee at commercial sites like Theme Forest, StudioPress, and WooThemes.

5- WordPress plugins add complex business features to your website without having to hire a coder.

Need some additional functionality on your website? There’s a plugin for that!

WordPress was designed to be extended and that’s exactly what programmers around the world have done. There are thousands of WordPress plugins available that add functionality to the core system. So whether you need a simple contact form or a full-featured ecommerce system, there’s a plugin to meet your business needs.

6- WordPress is search engine friendly and It’s automatic.

As Google Engineer Matt Cutts says, “WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues.” And with the free Yoast SEO plugin, your site will be even more search engine friendly.

WordPress automatically posts and publishes. It uploads images, updates indexes and knows how to build SEO value.

7- WordPress is ready for the mobile web.

If you assume your customers are visiting your website from a full-sized computer, think again. Mobile website usage is exploding. If your website doesn’t look great and work well on a smartphone or tablet your customers will skip your site and go somewhere else.

Many WordPress themes are designed to be responsive (aka mobile-friendly), meaning your customers won’t be challenged to use your website on their smartphones. And the WordPress dashboard is designed to work on smartphones as well as full-sized PCs — so you can easily manage your website from anywhere.

8- Safe and Secure.

Since WordPress is such a popular CMS, it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s a target for hackers. However, WordPress takes the security of its users very seriously. While you can practice some basic security measures, such as not downloading a theme or plugin from an untrusted site, WordPress constantly updates its software to prevent attacks. In fact, WordPress has an automatic update feature ever since the release of version 3.7.

9- WordPress is open source.

Unlike other website building tools WordPress is open source and free from commercial restrictions and limitations. That means you can use the software anyway you choose and host your website anywhere you choose. All without fear that changes in someone else’s business model will have an adverse impact one of your most important business assets.

10- You’re not committed to one hosting provider

If you need to switch a provider or host, either because they can’t handle traffic or you’re just frustrated with them, you can do it without experiencing much downtown. This is because WordPress works with pretty much every server. If you need to make the switch, I recommend that you review the following article from wordpress-tools.xyz. There are several free WordPress hosting options as well.

11- Can be used as a membership service.

If you want to continue to grow a loyal fan base, and maybe even make some additional income, then you can convert WordPress into a full-fledged membership site. When you create an exclusive membership site you’re providing members exclusive content they will find useful. If you want to create a membership site you should look over this article (article available soon on our website)

12- Multi-user capability.

There’s a very good possibility that you’ll have to rely on multiple people to keep your site up and running. WordPress is aware of this and has made it easy for you to assign different roles for different individuals. Here is a summary of these roles from WordPress Codex:

Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. See the Create a Network article.
Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.

13- Publish content with one-click.

Have you just written an article or blog post that you need to publish immediately? No problem. After creating your amazing content, you can publish it with just the click of one-button. Furthermore, there are even a number of mobile apps that allow you to publish your WordPress content no matter where you are.

14- Universal platform.

WordPress features a universal platform. The WordPress dashboard always looks the same - no matter what you’re using WordPress for. You don’t need to hire experts or spend an excessive amount of time trying to figure out how to use WordPress. In fact, anyone with some sort of general PHP and MySQL experience can use WordPress immediately.

15- WordPress keeps getting better.

Because WordPress hires top-notch developers, you can be certain that WordPress is only going to get better as time goes on. Also, because WordPress is open source, any developer can enhance the user experience so that it can become the best CMS available.

WordPress is a tool intended to make your website quick and easy to operate. It takes the focus away from the technical aspects of running your website and moves it to the important stuff like what’s ON your website.
WordPress can be one of the best platforms for your business.