Over 70% of websites use a Content Management System (CMS), simplifying website management for businesses. WordPress has become the industry standard as a CMS and offers a platform that is as accessible to marketing personnel as it is robust for developers. It’s more of a global ecosystem backed by a massive support community and a library of plugins that can handle any website’s business requirements. So, if you’re looking for a business solution for your website that prioritizes quickness, convenience, and long-term flexibility, WordPress is the clear frontrunner.
To understand why it dominates the market, we need to explore what it is and how it simplifies everything from initial setup to long-term management.
WordPress is a Great Content Management System
The biggest advantage of using WordPress is its ability to manage content. Non-technical staff, such as marketing personnel, can easily access and manage website content. That means images, text, and icons can be swapped out with minimal effort. We like to joke that if you can create a Word Document, you can manage a WordPress site. Sure, there are substitutes to WordPress that do the exact same thing. However, you won’t find a more widely used CMS that most people are familiar with using.
Ease of Setup – Perfect for Web Design & Development
With any CMS, there are a couple of steps that you need to complete before your site is live. You must first set up your server with the right parameters. Then you have to install a WordPress instance on your server. Fortunately for anyone considering WordPress, hosting providers usually have a quick process for deploying a server with it already installed. Once you’ve got WordPress installed, you can decide on whether to use a visual builder, theme, or the default Gutenberg editor to build your website.
And, if you’ve done everything correctly, your team can kickstart your web design and development right away. Oh, did I mention that the whole setup can be done in 20 minutes with little to no technical expertise? That’s the power and speed of WordPress.
There’s an Active and Massive Support Community When Help Is Needed
Because of its mass adoption, there’s a good chance that whatever problems you’re facing on WordPress have already been solved by somebody else. It’s usually a brief online search before you find your answer. If not, you’ll definitely get an answer within a matter of weeks after contacting the WordPress support community. For those familiar with Stack Overflow, the WordPress support community adopts a similar approach, with communities coming together to ask questions and source answers.
WordPress Plugins – It Makes Web Development Simpler
Need something specific for your site? There’s probably a plugin for it, since there are over 65,000 available for download. Sometimes the plugin isn’t free, and even if it isn’t, it won’t cost you more than a couple of hundred bucks to purchase. It’s the price of convenience compared to paying a web designer or web developer to build something more custom for your site, which we’ve done quite often!
Regardless, plugins make your website easier to manage, and if you’ve picked a popular one, it will be regularly updated to keep pace with WordPress updates. Here are five plugins that we frequently implement on websites.
The Bottom Line / TLDR
The reasons are obvious why almost half the sites on the web are WordPress. It’s easy to set up and easy to use. It’s also supported by large communities and custom plugins, which provide improved troubleshooting and nearly unlimited customizations.
If you’re considering WordPress or looking for website design and development, Contact us for your free consultation today.
