Is WordPress the Right Choice for My Website?

If you’re using a Wordpress development company for your de facto online home you’re well in sync with 75 million other businesses, which includes 14.7% of the world’s highest ranked websites. Apart from being protected at the core, Wordpress supports over 55,000 powerful plugins that let you build almost any kind of website from the basics. 

On the other hand, unlike competitors such as Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly, you need to hire a website design company with coding experts even if you want to move a section elsewhere, change font and color, change your layout, or, even, increase the size of your header or logo.

There are both benefits and disadvantages to using Wordpress such as its cost effectiveness when compared to so-called DIY website builders which promise zero coding requirements. Wix, for example, is priced at $204 per annum for entrepreneurs and freelancers. However, this plan provides for just 10GB of storage and just 1 hour of video length for uploads. This may work for smaller websites but not for more complex ones such as Enterprise plans start from $6000 per month. You can only use Wix hosting domains, however, and this service is only available without charge for the first one year.

In comparison, Wordpress is entirely free to download and use from WordPress.org. In this case the only charges you incur are the charges that your WordPress developer will charge and the cost of hosting the site on a world wide web server. By some estimates, these costs can come down to just $46 per annum for the hosting part. The rest depends upon how well you perform due diligence when finding and choosing your WordPress development agency. 

• WordPress is completely open-source and made available under the GNU Public License (GPL). Developers are free to modify its code (leaving aside the core) via plugins and themes and sell it to others provided they do so under the same GPL.

• Over the years there have been continuous improvements and enhancements made to the WP core by various developers, communities, and associations.

• You get complete control over your website with WordPress, storing and managing your own files and data. You can modify URLs, manage multiple sites, and tie them together without having to depend on an external web hosting agency.

• More than 55,000 plugins, add ons, and themes become available to you at little to no cost.

• WordPress websites are highly scalable. This means that you can start with a small platform and expand later as your business grows.

• You can create powerfully unique websites using the WP core and customizations with given plugins and extensions (including those for website security).

• SEO best practices are built into the WP core.

• The huge popularity of the WordPress Content Management System has ensured that third party integrations with email marketing software, CRM software, SEO tools, and lead generation applications are easily available without you having to develop them from scratch. Unlike with Wix or Squarespace you can also change the tools when it suits you.

• Powerful eCommerce sites can be built quickly with the WooCommerce extension, which is highly popular with several of the top one million online shopping platforms preferring to use WooCommerce as their medium.

• Security, backing up files, and installing updates are your own responsibility unless you’ve hired a WordPress developer to take care of these for you.

• There are no built-in drag-and-drop features on WordPress.

• You need some knowledge of HTML and CSS to be able to develop and better use WordPress.

• When the only thing you want is to write a blog with no special features or plans to make money off it.

• You don’t care about security, backups, updates, and writing code.

• When you just want a simple website with no plans to expand or sell anything.

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