5 Key Benefits of Building Your Website in WordPress

WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. It’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. Many famous blogs, news outlets, music sites, Fortune 500 companies and celebrities are using it. Here are five key benefits of using WordPress for your website:

• Themes allow you to change the design of your website quickly. There are thousands of themes available for WordPress.
• Plugins allow you to extend the functionality of your site without knowing how to program. There are over 10,000 plugins available that help you add all kinds of functionality to your sites, like social media sharing, SEO, photo slideshows, and much more.
• They are easy to update. If you can create a Word document, you can publish a new article to your website. Once it is set up, you can update it anytime you want, and that is important for engagement with your visitors and for the search engines.
• Google loves WordPress sites. Because they are updated more frequently, and the content tends to be structured well, you can get a WordPress site ranking very quickly compared to a static website. Google has even gone on record as recommending WordPress for business sites (see YouTube video)
• It is supported by a thriving, engaged community. A recent study estimates that approximately 8% of the sites on the Internet are run by WordPress. There are thousands of designers, developers and enthusiasts out there to help if you get stuck. Help is just a Google or Bing search away.