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Eight Reasons Behind The Popularity Of The Wordpress Platform

Written By planetweb on lundi 15 juillet 2013 | 09:23

By Beenish Aslam


Why should you use WordPress for your site? The answer's quite simple - It's the simplest and fastest way to build a new website on your own without having to know any complicated coding. WordPress has turned into a popular and efficient blogging service in recent times. There are numerous benefits of using WordPress and some of them are mentioned below.

1. High quality themes - The theme system available in WordPress is quite flexible. With the help of this system you can instantly change the color scheme and layout of your website. There are thousands of free themes available in the market and new ones are being released everyday. After installing one of these themes you can go to WordPress backend and change things like background image, background color, header size and so on. In addition there are more than a few theme market places where you can get premium quality themes for as low as $10.

2. Traffic Generation - WordPress comes with a range of Search Engine Optimization plug-ins which will help you optimize your website, hence making it simpler for individuals to discover your business through search engines. Additionally, plug-ins allow you to add social-media sharing tools like FB, Google + share links on each article. This is one of the most efficient ways of ensuring that your site content reaches a large crowd in a short time.

3. Automatic Updating - Of all the popular platforms available in the market, WordPress is the only one that can be upgraded quickly and effortlessly. The system notifies you whenever new updates are available for any plug-in or theme. Whenever an update is available you can install it with a single click.

4. Wide Range of Plugins - There is no limit to the range of things that you can do using WordPress. If you need to put in a new feature to your site just go to the official WordPress website and locate a plugin which fits your requirements. Or you can hire somebody to create custom plug-ins for you. Obviously this option is more costly however in many cases a custom plug-in is much more beneficial compared to a free one already available for sale.

5. SEO Features - The HTML code generated by most WordPress themes is very clean and simple. In addition the WordPress navigation structure allows crawlers to access each and every content page (Unless you want to block access). The ability to add meta information is not natively available in the software but you can add this capability with third-party plugins like All In One SEO. Because of all these things WordPress is considered as one of the most search engine friendly pieces of software out there.

6. Ease of Use - WordPress is very easy to use and has a user-friendly GUI. Tasks like adding new web pages, blog posts, images, etc. is a breeze and could be completed quickly. Since the technology is very simple and uncomplicated, time spent on formatting is cut down tremendously.

7. Easy Navigation - Have you ever visited a hard to navigate website? If yes then you know how frustrating it can be. The main purpose of a website is to provide information and this can't be done without a good navigational structure. WordPress shines in this area as well. It allows you to create more than one menus and place them in the header and footer sections (unfortunately not all themes have this capability). You can also divide your content into categories so that users can quickly find what they are looking for.

8. Support Facility - When you are experiencing any difficulty with your WordPress blog, you may use WordPress community forum and have your issues solved within a few minutes. There are numerous experts who're always willing to help you.




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