Wordpress is commonly used for blogging purposes but there is so much to Wordpress than blogging. Wodpress is one of the most user friendly Content Manage System (CMS) your website can have.

Here are 15 reasons for why you should have a your website developed in wordpress;

1)    Easy to use

WordPress is a great product, quite powerful, and flexible. It is easy-to-use simple to install and maintain. Adding pages, blog posts, products, images and editing current content is very easy. Wordpress makes is easy to use, even if one is unfamiliar with the HTML or coding.

2)    Cost Effective

Wordpress.org is absolutely free. It offers a huge variety of custom WordPress Themes that you can easily upload to your domain, to change the appearance and feel of your WordPress website.

Some of the WordPress Themes are paid versions, but mοѕt of them are free. There are more than one thousand themes from which you can choose.

3)    100% Customized Design

With WordPress you have a website which is fully customizable. You can change the layout, background, color scheme, coding, anything and everything in your website.

4)    Greater accessibility

With WordPress websites you have greater accessibility as you can manage your site from any computer having an internet connection without the need for additional software.

5)    Search engine Optimization made simple

Wodpress codes are very clean and simple. This helps search engines to read and index your website content. You can optimize each page, post and image and get your website onpage optimized.

6)    Responsive

Many WordPress themes are responsive i.e you can view your Wordpress website on computer, laptop, tablet and mobile. Not only that your website can be viewed on many browsers without compromising the user experience.

7)    Truly an open source

WordPress has been built in PHP, and its source code is visible to everyone who wants to look at it. Anyone with a minimal knowledge of PHP can program WordPress Themes and Plug-ins, without too much effort.

8)    Easily Add a Blog To Your Site

You can’t find a better blog solution than WordPress. Adding a blog to a WordPress site is a great way to attract and involve visitors, and to keep Google paying attention to the new content on your website.

Wordpress sites are scalable. You can have multiple numbers of pages or blog posts on your site without compromising your sites performance. Gradually your site can grow as your business grows with Wordpress.

9)    Lets you Schedule your content

WordPress lets you schedule posts for publication in advance. A simple WordPress Plugin to Schedule Content Updates enables your blog post to be posted automatically at the desired day and time by scheduling them well in advance. This will help when you have a lot of content ready to be posted but cannot post it all at once, you can just schedule it in regular intervals and then not bother about it again.

10)      Multiple Users

WordPress supports Add multiple users for Wordpress feature. Thus website can be handled and used or administered by multiple users. You can set-up multiple users for the website and assign access levels and capabilities to each user.

11)      Control is in your hands

Wordpress gives you complete access to control each and every activity on your website. You don’t have to wait for the web designer to make simple updates to your site, you can do it yourself.  

You can make frequent posts to the blog and share your opinion on what’s happening in your industry, this offers so much more potential for establishing rapport with your audience.

You have total control of discussion via blog posts. Visitors can leave their comments to the discussion you started. But, you have the power to approve appropriate comment or disapprove them before anyone else sees them on your website.

12)      RSS Feeds

Wordpress support RSS Feeds. The RSS Links Widget allows you to add links to your blog's post and comment RSS feeds in your sidebar. This makes it easy for your readers to stay updated. Also you get to have a two way communication with your visitors. Blog posts can be automatically converted to RSS feeds and syndicated to blog directories and other peoples’ websites.

13)      Inspires Visitors Revisit

WordPress makes it easy for you to update blogs and website content. This helps as you can provide useful content for your visitors easily. Your website visitors can subscribe to receive your entire post through their RSS reader or mobile device. Also communicating through blog comments keep your visitors engaged with the website and encourage them to visit again.

14)      Easy social media Integration

Integrating social media with your site is quite important. With social networking you can promote what your company, its value and how you are different.  You can share content which is useful for your target customers. It is a way to help spread a word about you and what you are. Social media has become the next big thing, and it's very important for bloggers to integrate social sharing buttons on their blogs so blog visitor or social media follower can easily share your content.

Taking these needs into consideration WordPress provides social media plug-ins and makes it easy to integrate social media with your website.

15)      Site grows as your business grows

WordPress websites are very scalable. You can keep on adding new content, blog posts etc. to your website as per your business modification. You can have hundreds of thousands of pages or blog posts on your site and the performance of the site will not be compromised.

Wodpress is one of the most commonly used CMS. We are a Web Design and Development Company in West Midlands. We design and develop WordPress web sites for local businesses in the West Midlands.

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Original Blog Posted here on: West Midland Website UK