Are you considering having a website developed, redesigned or maybe you are disappointed with your current web appearance and want to take things to a whole new level, here are 25 excellent reasons why you should choose WordPress to power your site:
Reason 1
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) worldwide. It’s a proven software trusted by large companies, small businesses and millions of website owners. One of Four new sites today are powered by WordPress and has been continually refined and improved for over nine years now. New versions of WordPress currently get over 15 million downloads each time a new version is released.
Reason 2
WordPress is designed for publishing content online. WordPress is not just a website application, and it’s also a powerful content-publishing platform.
Reason 3
WordPress has features that automate the process of sharing content online and attracting readers and visitors to your site. Some of these points include the ability to auto-notify social networks whenever new content is published on your site, optimizing your site for best search engine results, and giving your visitors the ability to subscribe to your content via RSS feeds or email.
Reason 4
WordPress typically releases a new version with security updates, bug fixes and improvements made to the previous version every 1-2 months. It’s a robust and fully-supported application that is continually being improved.
Reason 5
WordPress is backed and supported by a vibrant community of thousands of users and hundreds of web developers who constantly work on improving and refining the software. This means that most bugs, errors, challenges or vulnerabilities get picked up quickly whenever new versions are released and then addressed in the next version.
Reason 6
WordPress automatically saves your work as you type, so you won’t lose any of your content if your computer crashes or you make a mistake. WordPress also allows you to restore previous versions of your work with a single click.
Reason 7
With WordPress, you can schedule your content to be published on any date and time you specify, giving you full control over your publishing timeline.
Reason 8
WordPress lets you publish anywhere and everywhere with mobile applications for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Phone, WebOS. and even by e-mail.
Reason 9
WordPress provides several levels of password protection for your site and content. You can protect individual posts or just parts of your content from public viewing, or even make your content completely private and accessible only to individual authors, members, or registered users with assigned roles or privileges. With the help of various premium plugins, you can also set up a membership area with payment integration in a few hours.
Reason 10
WordPress lets you split large content into multi-paged posts for easier reading.
Reason 11
WordPress allows you to save your content as a draft. That means you can save any unfinished articles or posts you are working on without publishing them (i.e. making them publicly visible), then come back and improve or rework your saved drafts later and only post them when you’re happy to make your content public and visible online.
Reason 12
WordPress has a built-in feature that automatically converts your new posts and pages URLs into “human-friendly” and “search engine friendly” URLs that describe what your content is about.
Reason 13
WordPress has been translated into more than 70 different languages. You can create a site that is localized for a particular international audience and delivered in a language of your choice. Also with the use of WPML plugin, you can easily translate your site into multiple languages.
Reason 14
WordPress lets you assign multiple users on your site and define different roles and privileges for each of your users. You can also configure your site to let users register themselves and either publish content on your site or require content to be submitted for review and approval by the site administrator or other users before publishing.
Reason 15
WordPress offers the multi-site technology. This technology allows you to control one or thousands of WordPress sites from one administration panel and is currently used to power over 20 million sites on WordPress.com and global sites like CNN and the New York Times, as well individual sites in networks, organizations, and universities. Multi-site technology allows each user to have full administrative control over their personal site without any security concerns. Each site can also have its own design (theme), individual functionality (using plug-ins), and manage its own users. Super administrators can implement network-wide policies and deploy security, plugin and theme updates at the click of a button from one central location.
Reason 16
WordPress updates content displayed to visitors on your site fast. WordPress uses dynamic page generation technology to generate page requests by viewers on your site directly from your database and templates. This uses minimal server storage space and makes updating your site, or your site design extremely fast.
Reason 17
WordPress uses templates to generate your site’s pages dynamically. You can fully control how your content is presented, therefore, simply by editing your site’s templates (or hiring someone with knowledge of PHP and CSS to do this for you!)
Reason 18
WordPress software is stable, secure and robust. Because WordPress has such an extensive user base numbering in the millions and a dedicated open-source community, vulnerabilities are quickly discovered, and patches are developed and often released by a dedicated security team within hours of being reported. WordPress has an integrated core-update system, which means that patches are deployed at the click of a mouse button. Additionally, WordPress sanitizes all user input, restricts URL access, has an extensive user permissions system and never stores passwords in an unencryptable format. Because WordPress offers a hosted option (at WordPress.com) it can use the site’s 20 million users as beta testers before releasing a new version, so when new versions are released, users can be confident that the new version is pretty stable.
Reason 19
WordPress is highly flexible and adaptable. The WordPress core application relies on its own extensive APIs (Application Program Interface). This allows developers to modify quickly and efficiently and customize the application to suit their unique needs and helps WordPress integrate seamlessly with other existing systems.
Reason 20
WordPress is “enterprise-ready.” WordPress has already been adapted to perform in various enterprise environments. It provides support for a number of enterprise-centric features such as Active Directory authentication, user management, workflow integration, scheduled backups, and more!
Reason 21
WordPress lets you specify which HTML tags users are allowed to add when posting content on your site. WordPress also provides you with a built-in default list of safe HTML tags users can add in their comments and posts, so that malicious users do not compromise the safety of your data or server.
Reason 22
WordPress code is fully compliant with the standards of the W3C. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. Being standards-compliant is important not only for interoperability with current internet browsers, but it also provides forward compatibility with future tools and technologies.
Reason 23
WordPress helps you create maximum exposure for your sites online and in search engines automatically. WordPress comes with two ways of automatically connecting your site to other sites (and enabling other sites to do the same to your site), called PingBack and TrackBack. You can also configure your WordPress site to notify dozens of blog directories automatically as soon as new content is posted using the PingBack function.
Reason 24
WordPress development is controlled by a set of unwavering principles. These principles include being able to work right out of the box, designing for the majority (but being mindful of the vocal minority), striving for simplicity, and keeping the code clean, lean and mean, among other things.
Reason 25
Besides blog content, with WordPress you can create various kinds of websites for your brand or your company. The only thing you need is to choose the theme that suits your needs and start building your site with it. WordPress can be used for all kind of industries for their personal or corporate website.
Doesn’t it make sense, therefore, to consider using WordPress to power your new website, or switch your existing website to WordPress?
Are you ready to start growing your web presence using an online vehicle that is more powerful, more flexible, more scalable, less restrictive, cheaper to run, easier to use and fundamentally “smarter” than any other online publishing platform or content management system available?
