Top 5 Benefits of Using WordPress For Your Website
Barry Prouty
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If you have never built a website before, one of the
quickest and easiest ways to get your first domain live and
operational in only minutes is to install WordPress on your
website. WordPress is a blogging platform that allows you to
have a pre-built website for free that will allow you to
focus on the more important items like content, and if you
desire it, sales and profits.
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Top 5 Benefits of Using WordPress For Your Website
Copyright (c) 2010 Barry Prouty
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If you have never built a website before, one of the quickest and
easiest ways to get your first domain live and operational in
only minutes is to install WordPress on your website.
WordPress is a blogging platform that allows you to have a
pre-built website for free that will allow you to focus on the
more important items like content, and if you desire it, sales
and profits.
WordPress Benefits
In more than a decade online, I have literally built dozens of
websites, many from the ground up... But since I discovered the
ease of use and powerful flexibility of the WordPress platform, I
am building most of my newest websites under this Content
Management System (CMS).
The reasons I prefer the WordPress blogging platform are many,
but I will sum it up with the following five key benefits:
1. Quick and Easy Installation - If you have a web hosting
company that runs cPanelX as your webmasters' control panel
(many of the more popular web hosting companies do), then you
will find an option in your control panel called, "Fantastico De
Luxe". When you click on the Fantastico icon, you will be taken
to a page where you can add a multitude of free applications to
your website, by following some simple instructions. Just click
on the WordPress link to install WordPress on your website. The
software will ask you some basic general information, then do the
full install of one of the most recent WordPress builds into your
website.
2. Website Themes - Few webmasters want to use the generic
WordPress Theme that ships with WordPress. The default WP Theme
is plain Jane, and to my taste, perfectly drab. There are many
people who design custom WordPress Themes that you can easily
upload to your domain, to change the appearance and feel of your
WordPress website. Some of the WP Themes are paid versions, but
most of them are free. There are more than one thousand themes
loaded directly into the WordPress website (
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ ), from which you can choose,
although you are not limited to just the themes loaded into the
WordPress website.
3. Website Functionality - Just like with the WordPress Themes,
if there is a specific functionality you want your blog to
perform, there are programmers out there who have made WordPress
Plugins that will do for you those things you would like to do.
There are nearly 8,000 WordPress Plugins on the WordPress.org
website ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ), and thousands
more that are not in the WordPress database. If you find a Plugin
you want, just download, unzip, and upload it to the appropriate
Plugin directory on your blog. After you have uploaded the
Plugin, simply go to the Admin area of your Blog to activate the
software.
4. Open Source - WordPress has been built in PHP, and its source
code is visible to everyone who wants to look at it. On top of
that, WordPress has included comprehensive documentation and a
range of functions to help programmers work within the WordPress
Codex ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page ). Anyone with a
minimal knowledge of PHP can program WordPress Themes and
Plugins, without too much effort.
5. Self-Updating - In recent versions, WordPress has included a
feature that will notify you if upgrades are available for the
basic WordPress operating system or your chosen WP Plugins. When
upgrades become available, you will be notified, and often you
only need to click a link to automatically install the upgrades
and updates.
I have a friend who is a PHP coder by trade. I try not to mention
WordPress in his presence, because every time I do so, I get an
ear-full of "WordPress Sucks..."
To be honest with you, I still like WordPress... I like it,
because it is easy to install and maintain, and I can improve it
easily by using templates and plugins.
I am a coder, but life is too short to spend all of my time
coding new websites... I am happy to spend my time creating
content that will lead to sales... So for me, WordPress is good,
and I am happy to put it on as many websites as I need to do...
If you are new to the Internet, then you might agree that
WordPress is a blessing to those of us, who have more important
things to do than to recreate the wheel...
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