September 28, 2010

6 Reasons To Begin Using WordPress On Your Site Now

If you run a site, especially a blog, you should really look at using WordPress. It is one of the best platforms you can use. Here are just a few of the reasons WordPress is perfect for any site.

1. It Does Not Cost Anything
WordPress released under the GPL license, meaning anyone can use it, for no cost, on their site. If you wanted to hire a developer to create a system as effectual as WordPress it would cost you thousands of dollars. You can save that money by using this great software. You also get full access to the code, so if you know how you can customize it to fit your needs exactly.

2. Great Plugins Available
The secret behind the amazing power of WordPress is plugins. With these easy to install addons you can quickly add almost any funcitonality to your site, even without being able to do any coding. If a plugin doesn’t exist that does what you need, you can also easily write your own.

3. You Can Find Thousands of Free Themes To Use
If you look on any search engine you will certainly find no shortage of sites that offer WordPress themes for download. While some of the best themes cost money, there is no shortage of freely available themes that look great. Just like plugins, themes can be installed in just a few clicks.

4. WordPress is Highly Customizable
The WordPres developers knew that people need to customize sites, but hate dealing with code they don’t understand. That’s why they made everything very easy to change, just by using an intuitive web interface. However, if you do need to make more advanced changes you can, since you have access to all of the source files.

5. WordPress Is Search Engine Friendly
One of the morst important goals of any site is to get traffic, and the key to that traffic is often search engines. Due to how WordPress is designed search engines love sites built on it. WordPress sites often rank higher and faster than other types of sites. And to improve this power even more, there are dozens of plugins designed specifically to help improve your rankings.

6. WordPress Hosting is Easy To Find
The developers have gone to great lengths to make sure that WordPress will run on as many systems as possible. All that it needs is PHP and MySQL. This makes finding WordPress hosting much easier. There are a couple of steps you can take to make your experience even better though. Look for a host that runs Apache with mod_rewrite. This will make the SEO features work better. If you’re new to WordPress you’ll also want to find a host that has WordPress experience so that you can turn to them if you have any problems.

These reasons should be enough to convince anyone that WordPress is perfect in almost any situation.