Bottom line: there is no reason to use anything else because WordPress can pretty much do it all.
Simply put, WordPress is the best. It is easier to modify, manage and build anything with it. The fantastic community is increasing infinitely with new plugins and applications being created daily.
WordPress typically does much of what we need for a site, and we can teach it to do the rest in a forward-compatible way with the plugin and theme system... it is the All-in-One Solution.
Popular Brands Using Wordpress:
- Ford
- Wall Street Journal
- Sony
- People Magazine
- CNN
- Ben & Jerry
WordPress has paved the way for businesses to take control of their own websites. The days of paying a web designer to make minor changes are over. Changing and updating content can be done with ease and at no expense.
In the world-wide-web world businesses compete for the top ten spots on page one of search results. Getting there isn’t easy and there is no magic formula to get your site there. Good search engine rankings requires fresh and unique content relevant to a search.
So why is WordPress the choice for businesses?
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – WordPress provides good search engine optimization (SEO) right out of the box. There are a few tweaks you need to make, but there are many seo benefits that WordPress provides for free. For example sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc. There are also many plugins designed to help optimize the website for higher search engine rankings.
- Content – Editing your site can be done using a WYSIWYG editor as well as HTML makes updating the content on your website easy. If your proficient in Microsoft Word or any other text editing software you’ll be able to maintain your own website with ease! You can also easily create new pages or edit existing pages using a simple rich text editor.
- Extensions – There is a thriving ecosystem of developers creating plug-ins – imagine the ability to extend your website with polls, contact forms, ratings or hundreds of other cool features without having to hire a web developer.
- Large Community Support – If you do have problems, it is easy to find support… there are so many people writing about WordPress that help is only a Google search away!
- Standards Compliant – WordPress is one software 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.