If you’ve been thinking about starting your own website, you’ve probably seen WordPressmentioned a lot. It’s the most popular way to publish websites and blogs, it powers many of the world’s top online destinations and it’s used by millions of businesses, entrepreneurs and bloggers to publish online.
What is WordPress?
In a nutshell, WordPress allows to you get a professional website online without being a web designer or a computer geek.
But if you have little or no experience of WordPress you might be wondering if it’s right for you.
4 Good Reasons to Use WordPress
You can update your website whenever you like
That means you don’t have to learn programming code or pay a web designer every time you want to make a change to your website.
That means you don’t have to learn programming code or pay a web designer every time you want to make a change to your website.
And that’s the way it should be – it’s your website, you should be in control.
It’s easy to use
There are other free publishing systems out there but none that are as easy to set up and use, even if you’re not the technical type.
There are other free publishing systems out there but none that are as easy to set up and use, even if you’re not the technical type.
As with anything new, there are things you’ll need to learn – but the learning curve for WordPress is a lot less than for other publishing systems like Joomla, Drupal and Movable Type. That’s a major reason it’s so popular.
An enormous amount of time has gone into making WordPress as intuitive and easy to use as possible – and for the most part, the developers and designers have succeeded. If you can compose a fancy email with bold, images and so on, you can learn WordPress.
It’s free
Not only is the main software free, but you can also use free design templates – calledWordPress Themes – to give your website or blog a distinctive look. There are thousands of WordPress themes to choose from.
Not only is the main software free, but you can also use free design templates – calledWordPress Themes – to give your website or blog a distinctive look. There are thousands of WordPress themes to choose from.
You can add new features using “plugins”
Plugins are add-ons that seamlessly add the under-the-hood programming code needed to provide features that might otherwise cost you hundreds, if not thousands, if they were custom developed by a web developer.
Plugins are add-ons that seamlessly add the under-the-hood programming code needed to provide features that might otherwise cost you hundreds, if not thousands, if they were custom developed by a web developer.
Sound to good to be true? Some examples:
s2Member
A simple plugin that allows you to create a fully-featured membership site and charge monthly or one-off lifetime fees for membership and access to exclusive content.
A simple plugin that allows you to create a fully-featured membership site and charge monthly or one-off lifetime fees for membership and access to exclusive content.
WP e-Commerce (free)
Turns any WordPress site into an online store with an easy to customize shopping cart.
Turns any WordPress site into an online store with an easy to customize shopping cart.
There are thousands more plugins you can use to create just about any type of website imaginable – and many of them are free.
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