5 Reasons Why To Use WordPress As CMS
If you’ve got a website (or even if you haven’t!) there are a lot of advantages to having a WordPress blog as your content management system (CMS). Many of the top Internet marketers are doing just that and their lead is now being followed by business start-ups and budding entrepreneurs.
Here are the top five reasons for using WordPress as your web platform:
- It’s the lowest cost way to get a web presence. You only have to spend a few bucks on a domain and get a hosting account and you’re in business. The WordPress software is free, the blog themes (design templates) are free and the plugins are free. And you don’t have to pay a web designer to get it up and running for you.
- It’s the quickest way to get a web presence. The design work has been done for you, the coding’s been done for you and all you’ve got to do is to get typing.
- A WordPress blog doesn’t have to look like a blog. If you want to have what looks like a conventional website, that’s easy. You can make a WordPress blog have a static front page and have your other pages accessible from navbars down the sides or across the top or down the bottom (or all of the above!)
- WordPress is flexible. If your needs change or you fall out of love with your blog’s design you can easily change it. Your precious content will be preserved. You can move your content around, delete pages without leaving broken links, or add or remove widgets at will.
- The search engines love WordPress blogs. Put up a few pages of content and keep building out your blog and you’ll get indexed in Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Search (and all the others) in no time.
In fact, it won’t take you months or cost you megabucks to get your business online. You can do it in a few days, all by yourself, with WordPress!
Tags: wordpress cms
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
wordpress cms is my favourite, i have 9 webpages built on wordpress script, in iternet are thousends of free themes which can make your site look professional
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Great post, thanks for the info. Great info on why and how to use WordPress. I’m especially interested in #3 on your list, and being able to use it as more of a website that doesn’t have to look like a blog. Thanks again - and I guess I a little more work and research to do now.
Cheers.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
6. It’s open source and has many many plugins (wp-cache being the most essential!).
October 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
AMEN to all of the above! I have just recently set up a blog running Wordpress, and I am thoroughly impressed with how much flexibility it offers. I have been a Blogger fanatic for a long time, simply because I’m not a “code monkey” or anything, but I’m finding way more customizatoin options are available using WP than Blogger.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Chris Hutcherson Says:
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Great post, thanks for the info. Great info on why and how to use WordPress. I’m especially interested in #3 on your list, and being able to use it as more of a website that doesn’t have to look like a blog. Thanks again - and I guess I a little more work and research to do now.
Thanks you
Sohbet Konya
October 11th, 2008 at 6:20 am
In my opinion, Wordpress is hands down the best blogging platform out there. It has great options and a lot of people developing for it. You can find it on any host. Its easy to set up and post as well.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:59 am
WP has improved greatly over the last 6-8 months. Prior to 2008, it was looking a bit dodgy, particularly with security holes. Now though they’ve done superb with the recent updates - it’s a lot more secure, more easy to use, and soon with (hopefully) automatic updates.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Tens of millions of people in America spend several hours a day in front of their computer, using the Internet Almost every home in America is now online, and the vast majority of them are using high speed Internet connections. Probably 85-90 percent of all searches these days are Google searches. And Google lists everything, including local businesses. Any local business that doesn\’t have a website has got two choices ? get a website, and get one soon, or plan to eventually go out of business.
December 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
word press rules. Now i just need to learn PHP LOL