Friday, September 4, 2009

Why Your Next Site Should Be Powered by WordPress

By Michael Penington

If you are reading this article, I am guessing you are interested in building a website. Well then, I think you should use WordPress to build that site. I will tell you the reasons I believe your next site should be powered by WordPress in this article

WordPress is extremely easy to use. It can be used to power all kinds of sites from Portfolio sites to Magazine sites to e-commerce sites. You can write posts without knowing html at all, using a simple rich text editor.

WordPress is extremely user-friendly, compared to some other cmses out there, which tend to be more robust and have a longer learning curve. The WordPress Support community is extremely helpful too, so incase you encounter any problems, you know exactly where to go!

Since WordPress is a blogging platform, if you use it build your site, incase you need to integrate a blog, you wont need to worry at all, since technically the blog is already present!

WordPress has a large repository of free and paid themes, to fulfill youre every need. They all look awesome too! There are also niche themes, available for specific type of sites like magazine sites, portfolio sites etc.

Installing WordPress is a breeze. All it takes is one-click. Seriously, since most hosts do offer a one click installation of WordPress. Also, WordPress is the probably the best content management system in terms of search engine optimization. Search engines are known to love sites powered by WordPress.

And the last, but definitely not the least reason to use WordPress to power your next site is Plugins. WordPress Plugins. There are about millions of them available, and they all can help you in some way or the other. With Plugins, customizing your site will be a breeze.

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