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Title:

Reasons Inspiring Developers to Use WordPress CMS

Keywords:

WordPress Development Services, WordPress Design and Development Services

Content:

One of the biggest questions for a developer at the time of building a blog is to decide that which platform

to use for building it. The platform used to build the blog determines that how easily and smoothly the

blog will work and the extensions present in that platform will decide the additional features to be added

to the blog. Developers have multiple options available to choose from but the selection mainly depends

on the requirements of the blog to be built.

WordPress is an open source content management system created originally in 2003. In last couple of

years, it has gained popularity amongst developers because of it been free, flexible, SEO friendly, ease of

use and customizable. Although of being so many other options available, most of the developers

nowadays prefer WordPress. Top five reasons of many behind that are discussed below –

1] Outstanding User Interface

The user interface of WordPress is specially designed for the purpose of making the publishing and

maintenance of the content of the website simple and uncomplicated task. The important features

required by users regularly to manage the website easily are all present in WordPress. This is one of the

top reasons of why WordPress is considered as the best option for bloggers.

2] Free Plug-ins availability for boosting functionalities

With WordPress the possibilities of expanding the blogging functionalities are endless. There are

hundreds of plug-ins available that can be installed to increase the functionalities. For example, there are

free Plugins available that will easily allow you to add a shopping cart and payment options into your blog,

you can also upload files for others to download and you can restrict some web pages to turn your

website into a membership blog, and many other useful actions can be taken.

3] Large and Loyal User Community

Thousands of websites use WordPress and because of this, huge community of users has been

developed for WordPress. One of the most important benefits of having a large community of users is -

there is a lot of sharing of knowledge by which lot of information can be obtained that can be helpful at

any point of time. Moreover, WordPress also holds a community support forums where it gets easy for the

community members to ask questions in case of some confusion and can obtain relevant answers by

other members. Community also has number of freely available Plugins and themes, hosted at

WordPress.org. Everyday new Plugins and themes are released which are useful to extend the

functionality of the websites.

4] Additional great features

WordPress has some resourceful native additional features to make easy the creation of blogs and

websites. These features include – search engine friendly URLs, support for multiple templates,

scheduling of posts, built-in WYSIWYG editor, easy management of uploaded files, user management,

and revision tracking.

5] SEO Friendly

Most of the users ignore the fact that Google loves WordPress. It is proved that the sites developed on

WordPress CMS gets more traffic, and more favorable SERPs than achieved from any other CMS.

So these are some of the important reasons, users love WordPress. It is considered as invaluable CMS

by the developers engaged in providing WordPress design and development services and they also

suggest others to give it a try. When Plugins and other extensions of WordPress are used correctly, your

website content will be more visible, potentially attracting additional traffic consisting of your target

audience.

Softweb solutions provide WordPress web development services along with effective SEO services to

optimize the WordPress based websites. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com for more information.

Summary:

The top five reasons developers consider to use WordPress CMS to build up their blogs or websites are

being discussed here in the article.