
WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system. It was first released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg. It is being used by more than 200 million websites worldwide. WordPress is undoubtedly a semantic publishing platform that emphasizes greatly on usability and intuitive web standards. It helps in building a website that can bring success at your finger tips.
Reasons to use WordPress:
-WordPress is free of Cost and rich in plugins & themes.
- WordPress enables you to alter the format of your website by browsing through the core PHP files and modifying the relevant codes.
- This publishing platform undergoes upgrades from time to time and the only thing you’re required to do is upgrade the version when there is a potential threat of any security breach.
- The platform is quite flexible and it’s too easy to jump from one theme to another.
- You can also enhance the functionality of your website using its plug-ins and integrate custom programming into the same.
- It’s an impactful content management system that helps you build great web pages and you can manage considerable audio, video, text etc.
“Why would anybody do 10 clicks when with WordPress you can do it with 2?”
- It’s also quite easy to create article directories, e-commerce sites, portfolio sites etc. using WordPress.
- You can easily optimize the content of your website using SEO plug-ins of your WordPress, which would fetch your website higher search engine rankings.
- The platform entails base source code that interlinks PHP with MySql and hence, quite easy to install. It creates your website in minutes and it’s live & running.
- WordPress is styled by CSS and hence all its installations compley with the set web standards.
- It takes a very less amount of time to deploy any installation process and integrate themes, plug-ins etc. hence, it becomes easy to complete your project on or well before time. Also, it offers cost-effective web solution to individuals and SMEs around the globe, which set up small-scale sites.







Alex
February 4, 2010
Really thanks for the valuable points about wordpress…