WordPress — Simply A Great Content Management System (or CMS)
WordPress works for your Portfolios, Blogs, Online Brochures, and of course, Interactive websites. And with WordPress Plugins, you can easily build-in functionality that serves associations, corporations, and e-commerce websites.
That all said, the WP framework is designed for sites of all depth and sizes. Small businesses love it because of its powerful extensibility and its ease-of-use; and large corporations like it for its user manageability and customization ability.
In fact, its ability to be extensible is all based on the [open-source] framework… which is one of the least talked about aspects of WordPress — to understand more about open-source software, check out GNU’s Philosophy, but first, let’s back up and see how we got to WordPress’ staggering popularity!
WordPress Web Sites Are Now 28% Of The Web In 2017
FUN FACT: A “website” has a unique hostname (a name which can be resolved, using a name server, into an IP Address). It must be noted that around 75% of URL’s are not active, but parked domains or similar — so only about 25% of all registered domain names are websites. The numbers below are about actual websites, not URL’s.
“We have come a long way since the first baby steps of the World Wide Web. Back in January of 1996, we had 100,000 websites, and if we go back to mid-1993 there were only a total of 130 websites.” ~ Pingdom AB
Now in 2017, we have 1.25 Billion active websites, and with 28% of the web being WP sites, the number of active websites that are on the WordPress framework is about 354.2 Million as of September 2017.
This Is Why Content And Good SEO Practices Are So Important!
It is easy — under the WP framework — to optimize your content. My favourite content SEO helper is “Yoast SEO”. Yoast SEO is
Yoast SEO is “the most complete WordPress SEO plugin”. It handles the technical optimization of your site & assists with optimizing your blog content.
What About WordPress’ Equates To Ease Of Use?
If you have the capacity to understand Microsoft Word, you will understand WordPress, yet some do not like the interface. Personally, I do not mind the interface, pretty quickly — like with anything — you get used to it.
7 Things to LOVE About WordPress
1. AT ITS CORE, IT’S FREE
2. SEARCH ENGINE MAGNETISM
3. PLUGINS THAT MAKE IT EXTREMELY EXTENSIBLE
4. IT IS UPDATED REGULARLY
5. SUPER INVOLVED WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY
6. NON-TECHIE EASE
7. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE
If customization is your thing, WordPress has its advantages. WordPress is fully compatible with outside frameworks and programming languages, making it possible to weave in any integration.
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