You must have heard something about this Content Management System called WordPress. Have you asked yourself this question why only WordPress? Why not Drupal, OpenText, Joomla, OpenText, or Adobe Experience Manager? This is because of its popularity.
WordPress is an open-source, flexible, easy-to-understand CMS from which you can create a powerful and interactive website with/without any coding experience. But why is WordPress the best among all other CMS? Let’s discuss. You need a domain and hosting with a built-in WordPress CMS to start this journey. If you are looking to accelerate your career in WordPress and seek help, we have a dedicated page that helps you prepare the WordPress interview questions.
#1 Popularity
WordPress doesn’t require any introduction. 59.9% of all the websites are using WordPress as a CMS. This number is huge. Like Joomla or Drupal, which are next to WP, the others share 5.9% for Joomla and 3.9% for Drupal. You must be thinking about how the popularity of a CMS is related to being the best. The reason lies in their community. The more popular a CMS is, the stronger its community will be. A community is where like-minded people join together, share their views, and work for a common goal in synergy. Whenever you encounter a problem related to your website, you have a big community to help you and provide you with many effective and alternative solutions.
#2 Open-Source
It is seen that whenever a tech comes to the majority of people, whether it’s Windows from Unix/IBM or Linux from Unix OS, it brings a revolution. Being open-source makes it freely available not only to users but also to developers. Developers can bring more themes/plugins/Widgets, either paid or free to WordPress, whereas users can use this CMS to create an intermediate to advance website.
This also deals with one major issue, i.e., pricing. WordPress is free of cost. The price you pay is to buy a domain and hosting, and that’s it. Unless you are the owner of a big website and want to avail the benefits of premium plugins or themes, you don’t have to spend a penny on it.
#3 Features
WordPress offers all the latest features that any other powerful CMS (built for enterprises) can offer, and there is always an alternative for your needs. These features include plugins/themes/Widgets/built-in library/Forms/SEO tools etc., freely available at a button. Device optimization is also a key feature in which WordPress competes with its peers. Making mobile/tablet/desktop responsive websites has become a trend and a need, and WordPress is not behind it. You can create mobile or tablet-friendly websites with ease.
#4 Easy to understand
Learning WordPress is as easy as driving a car. You just need to follow the instructions. Even if you find it difficult internet is filled with plenty of tutorials and content to answer any doubts of yours. Even WordPress and some hosting providers carry a series of tutorials to access every feature you want to use to create a powerful website.
Conclusion:
All in all, WordPress is a popular, freely available content management system capable of building from a simple blog/article website to a giant e-commerce website. Hope you find this blog useful, do share your comments in the comment section. We will be happy to hear feedback from you!
