6 reasons why WordPress is the best content management system for your business

• By Andrew
• WordPress
• 8970 Views
• 22nd December 2016

Feeling frustrated with your current content management system? WordPress is the only solution.

Starting out as a blogging only platform WordPress has expanded its offering hugely and is now one of the most popular CMS across the world with 59.4% market share. The company also recently shared that there are over 500 websites created each day using the system.

With years of experience in creating websites using a whole range of content management systems and even custom coded options, we champion WordPress against any other.

There are copious amounts of reasons why but we’ve managed to narrow it down to just 7 key points why WordPress is the only content management system you should be considering for your website…

1. Open source platform

WordPress is an open source platform which means that it can be used by anyone, for free. The code has been developed by a huge community of programmers and is ready to edit and add to by an experienced WordPress developers.

2. The WordPress community

An extended point from above there is a huge community of developers behind WordPress therefore it has been tested thoroughly and any bugs worked out. There are also regular updates of the system adding new features and capabilities, including the recent WordPress 4.7 update we blogged about.

3. SEO friendly

Google have openly spoken about their favouritism for websites that use WordPress, pushing sites using the CMS up the SERPs over other systems. Carrying out SEO on your website is also essential to generate leads and sales, WordPress makes onsite SEO extremely easy with key features including URL structuring, SEO plugins and image optimisation.

4. Easily extendable

With an extensive catalogue of plugins available WordPress sites are easily extendable, one of the most notable plugins is WooCommerce – with this you can turn your website into an ecommerce solution with just a few clicks.

5. Simplicity

From a user’s point of view, the simpler the better! Admins can easily edit and update their website without having to enlist the help of a specialist. When it comes to adding new pages, uploading images and changing around the menu structure WordPress is extremely simple to use – anyone can master it!

6. WordPress isn’t just about templates

Due to its early beginnings of a blogging platform WordPress has a reputation for being a template only content management system however this is not the case anymore. A bespoke website design can be applied to the WordPress CMS, so your business can have its own high quality design with all the features of WordPress.

Still not sold on WordPress?

Our team champion WordPress for all the above reasons and many more, if you would like some more information on the development process and how we can help you to create a WordPress website our team will be more than happy to help.

Call us on 01257 758078 and a member of our team will be able to talk you through how we can help.