Published On: 4 October 2014

WordPress has been around for 10 years and is currently by far the most popular CMS (Content Management System) in the world.

WordPress leaves other systems like Joomla and Drupal behind in areas such as development and functionality.
Yet some people have doubts about WordPress. For example, it is free to use. And it was only for blogs, right?

Especially for these people; 15 reasons to choose WordPress:

  1. WordPress is easy to install, manage and update. Installation can be done in 10 minutes and posting can be done by hotkeys. You don't need to master code to make adjustments to texts or photos. Other things are also easy to customise.
  2. WordPress is used by major brands. Wordpress is not just for small websites and blogs. Large multinationals also use the best CMS on earth. Think of serious parties like NY Times, Ford, Ebay, Yahoo, People Magazine, Samsung, BBC America, MTV News, Firefox, Flickr, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Sony Music, Download.com, Playstation, Xerox...
  3. The layout. With WordPress, you can choose from thousands of professionally designed themes/templates. These are both free and paid. With the free variants, you often have to link to the creator at the bottom of the footer. With paid templates, it is usually easier to make changes. Also, paid layouts often include qualitative plugins included in the price and clearly more time has been put into a template by its creator. At Milcraft, we mainly work with templates from Themeforest.net. This is an online marketplace for template builders. This gives you the quality of a large template design team for a small price.
  4. The plugins. With WordPress, it is possible to build additional functionalities into the website by plugins install. Many of plugins are available for free at WordPress.org. There are also paid plugins. These are often very comprehensive additions for your website or for which the creators release very regular updates.
  5. Search engine friendly. Google likes WordPress CMS. This is because the structure of every WordPress website is similar and that helps Google assess the content. In addition, there are very good plugins, such as Yoast's SEO plugin, to set up your website properly in the basics for search engine optimisation.
  6. WordPress is popular. Over 20% of all websites worldwide are powered by WordPress.
  7. Making adjustments around the world. From anywhere in the world, you can log in to your website and make changes or add posts. With websites without CMS, you usually need an editor on your PC or laptop and an ftp client. With WordPress, this is a thing of the past. In fact, you can even edit your website using your smartphone by default!
  8. The WordPress community. With the most widely used system in the world also comes the largest user base in the world. These are not only many ordinary users, but also many programmers. Software problems are often noticed and fixed quickly, and the development of new features within WordPress continues every moment of the day. All this is managed by the WordPress Development Team from WordPress.org.
  9. Suitable for mobile devices. WordPress these days is made in such a way that the websites can also be easily viewed on mobile devices. Of course, this requires a template suitable for this. The administration part of the CMS adapts by default to the device on which it is viewed.
  10. WordPress is ten years old. So you are not dealing with a rookie in CMS land. Over the past 10 years, WordPress has been developed and improved, only to have grown into the best and most widely used system in the world.
  11. For blogs as well as websites. WordPress used to be for blogs only. Nowadays, WordPress is used for both blog and website. So you don't have to make any concessions regarding layout if you choose WordPress. Of course, our own website is also built on WordPress.
  12. WordPress is open source. WordPress is free of commercial restrictions and limitations. You can use the software whenever and wherever you want. And all free of charge and without fear of anyone interfering with your business process.
  13. Safety. WordPress is a secure CMS. Of course, you should keep a close eye on version updates and plug-in updates. You can also be done of course. In addition, you can, without too much trouble, get a SSL certificate on the domain and you can use the right plugins to check that people don't try to hack your website or modify it uninvited. At Milcraft, we use the premium plugin from Wordfence.com for this. This plugin is also available through us. It can be bought separately or as part of a security package.
  14. Antispam. Almost nothing is more annoying than spambots trying to fill up your website and comments with all kinds of advertising messages. With WordPress, you have already made great strides in countering spammer on your website with just one click. You can do this using the plugin from Akismet or one of the dozens of other plugins on WordPress.org.
  15. Scalability. Do you have multiple websites and are looking for a good way to manage them? WordPress has the solution for this too. With the multisite-function of WordPress, keeping track of all these websites becomes a piece of cake.

So you see; there are more than enough reasons to choose WordPress. Do you still have questions or want to know what we can do for you? Then request a no-obligation conversation via info@milcraft.nl or through us contact form.