WordPress Blogging – Part 1 – why you should use wordpress
If you are fresh to WordPress and searching for factors to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your own new web site, here are some reasons. WordPress is a great tool to build your website and has plugins for all kinds of search engine optimization techniques. Google and other search engines love blogs and the right plugins take advantage of the search engine services that are provided within the CMS
Open Source Software program
WordPress is an Open Source program that enables it to be used for free. You can use it on any personal or commercial site and not have to pay a single dolla. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is Open Source in itself) and the licensing is under GPL (GNU Public License)
User Friendly
You do not truly have to be knowledgeable to use WordPress on your own web site. These days the majority of web hosting companies supply the capability to set up WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The admin section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will certainly in no way run short of templates when utilizing WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default install of WordPress, you can look for them on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website and even more professional paid these. There are themes which can make your website look like a professional corporate web site instead of a blog.
Plugins Extend Functionality
WordPress plugins allow you to do just about anything that you want and can be installed in a jiffy. For example, you want to paginate your blog posts, just look on Google and you can easily find the relevant plugin that will easily do the job for you.
Standards Compliant
WordPress is a that follows all the Web Standards and keeps your blog or website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website.
SEO Friendly
Search Engines have to be definitely kept in mind when building a website. WordPress uses different functions which allow it to be search engine friendly. For example sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc.
Large community Support.
As per recent statistics, WordPress is used on more than 1% of the websites on the Internet in the world. There is a large user community backing the development of this software. So, whenever you face any problems, you can go through all the available WordPress forums and communities and find answers for all your questions.
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