WordPress as A CMS For Your New Website

Are you planning to build a website right from scratch? You can do that today. And with no coding skills. There is exactly the purpose CMSs have been created for; to get a website up and running in hours. But make no mistake. You cannot expect to get a sophisticated feature-rich website or personal blog without a good hold on technical knowledge which is especially true for robust content management systems (CMSs) such as Joomla! and Drupal.

Powering more than half of the CMS-based websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS of the world. TechCruch, Sony Playstation’s news blog, Walt Disney are some of the websites that are using WordPress as their CMS of choice.

 What makes WordPress so powerful and popular? Let’s get going!

Note: I am using WordPress to denote WordPress.org, the self-hosted version of this publishing platform. The other one is WordPress.com, which is WordPress hosted version and requires no user-installation.  

 

Thousands of Highly Customizable Themes

WordPress has the highest number of themes available for its platform (more than any other CMS). This is not surprising given the sheer number of users. The themes can be personalized to suit the needs of the users.

If you’re a seasoned WordPress developer, you can change the source code, thanks to its open-source nature, in order to make the desired customizations.

WordPress Plugins        

Plugins are icing on the cake. If you want to capture leads, there is a plugin for that, if you want to optimize your webpage for SEO, there is a plugin that enable you to do so, there are social-media sharing plugins, there are plugins for google analytics and e-commerce (allows you to sell products online) and the list goes on.

There are again thousands of free and premium plugins available for this CMS platform that extend some very powerful features to your website without you needing to write even a single line of code.

Large Community of Developers

This is the advantage of most of the open-source CMSs out there. They are backed by a large community of developers voluntarily working to make the platform better and secure.

WordPress is updated regularly with new added features. But this comes at a price. If you change the source code, you cannot update the CMS to the latest version. Hence, it is recommended to hire WordPress developers in order to maintain the platform.

Conclusion

For long WordPress has been looked upon primarily as a blogging platform not meant for serious business. The perception has changed. From simple blogs to fully functional e-commerce websites, WordPress is now much bigger than a publishing platform.