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

WordPress leaves behind other systems such as Joomla and Drupal in areas such as development and functionality.
Yet there are people who doubt WordPress. For example, it is free to use. And it was just 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 within 10 minutes and posting messages can be done using keyboard shortcuts. You do not need to know any code to make adjustments to texts or photos. Other things are also easy to adjust.
  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. This includes serious parties such as 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 lay-out. 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 place a link to the creator at the bottom of the footer. With paid templates it is usually easier to make adjustments. Paid layouts also often include qualitative ones plugins included in the price and the maker has clearly put more time into a template. At Milcraft we mainly work with templates from Themeforest.net. This is an online marketplace for template builders. This way you have 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 plugins to install. Many of plugins are available for free at WordPress.org. There are also paid plugins. These are often very extensive additions to your website or for which the makers release updates very regularly.
  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 properly configure your website Searchmachine optimalisation.
  6. WordPress is popular. More than 20% of all websites worldwide are powered by WordPress.
  7. Make adjustments anywhere in the world. You can log in to your website from anywhere in the world and make adjustments or add messages. For 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. Stronger; you can even adjust your website as standard using your smartphone!
  8. The WordPress community. The most used system in the world also has the largest user group in the world. These are not only many ordinary users, but also many programmers. Software issues are often spotted and resolved quickly, and development of new features within WordPress continues every moment of the day. All this is guided by it WordPress Development Team from WordPress.org.
  9. Suitable for mobile devices. WordPress is now designed in such a way that websites can also be viewed easily on mobile devices. Of course, this requires a template that is 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. WordPress has been developed and improved over the past 10 years, subsequently becoming the best and most used system in the world.
  11. For blogs and websites. WordPress used to be just for blogs. Nowadays WordPress is used for both blog and website. This way you don't have to make any concessions with regard to the layout if you choose WordPress. Our own website is of course also built on WordPress.
  12. WordPress is open source. WordPress is free from commercial restrictions and limitations. You may use the software wherever and whenever you want. And all this free of charge and without the fear that someone will interfere with your business process.
  13. Safety. WordPress a secure CMS. Of course, you must carefully monitor and implement version updates and plugin updates. You can do this too have it done of course. In addition, you can use one without too many problems SSL certificate on the domain and with the right plugins you can see whether people want to hack or make unsolicited changes to your website. At Milcraft we use the premium plugin from Wordfence.com for this. This plugin is also available through us. This can be purchased separately or as part of one security package.
  14. Anti-spam. Almost nothing is more annoying than spambots that try to fill your website and comments with all kinds of advertising messages. With WordPress, you have made great strides in combating spammers on your website with just one click of the mouse. This can be done using the plugin Akismet or one of the dozens of other plugins on WordPress.org.
  15. Scalability. Do you have multiple websites and are you looking for a good way to manage them? WordPress also has the solution for this. With the multisitefeature of WordPress, maintaining all these websites becomes a piece of cake.

So you see; there are more than enough reasons to choose WordPress. Do you have any questions or would you like us to help you? Then ask one without obligation conversation via info@milcraft.nl or through us contact form..