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Wordpress- versatile Content Management System (CMS)

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Hey beginners, if you are confused on choosing plateform to develop you website. Then don't be. I will tell you, why you should choose Wordpress to develop your websites.

Wordpress is a very versatile Content Management System (CMS) which was evolved with the concept of blogging platform. Now Wordpress is more than ten years old and in these time, it has evolved through fully functional websites, mobile applications and ecommerce. While you can still use WordPress to create a simple blog, no doubt on it.


The best thing about using Wordpress is that it's very user friendly and flexible to do anything. This is also the main reason why it has grown so much in popularity. According to a recent survey, WordPress powers 22.5% of all websites on the internet.

Due to it’s robust features, many of the top brands use WordPress to power their websites including but not limited to: Time Magazine, Google, Facebook, Sony, Disney, LinkedIn, The New York Times, CNN, eBay, and more.

Wordpress is FREE

Wordpress is free software. You can download it HERE and install on your local server, then modify as according to your need. It is also open source which means the source code of the software is available for any one to study, modify and play with.

You can design your own Wordpress themes (You will find developing and designing tutorial too here) or you are free to download thousands of Wordpress themes and more than 31,000 plugins.

You just need web hosting and domain to run Wordpress.

WordPress is a community software, as it is open source. It is maintained by a large group of volunteers majority of whom are WordPress consultants with active interest in growing and maintaining WordPress.

Anyone can contribute to WordPress by writing patches, answering support questions, writing plugins, creating themes, translating WordPress and updating documentation.

Wordpress is EASY to use

You don't need to be IT guy to use Wordpress CMS. A layman can use it without any hinderance. So its very user friendly to use. You can do almost everything in a mouse click.

WordPress is Search Engine Friendly.

The most challenge in today's world is to let other people to know about your website. This is all about Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

So if you use Wordpress, it's high quality codes are very Search Engine Friendly. You can make it even more SEO friendly by using WordPress SEO plugins which will be explained later.

WordPress is Secure CMS

WordPress is developed with security in mind, so it is considered quite safe and secure to run any website. But you can never know, as internet can be an uncertain place.

But if you don't know how to handle Wordpress securly then you might be vulnerable to many intruders and hackers.

Wordpress handles different media types

Wordpress in not only for texting or writing. It is also a good platform to display images, audio and video contents too. WordPress supports oEmbed enabled websites which means you can embed YouTube videos, Instagram photos, Tweets, and Soundcloud audio by just pasting the URL in your post. You can even allow your visitors to embed videos in comments. 


So why not develop your website with Wordpress, isn't it?


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