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5 Best Reasons for Using WordPress In 2021
Introduction
WordPress is software that every online user should rely on. It has impressive features and constant upgrades, which make it super competitive. The following are the 5 best reasons why WordPress has changed my life in 2021.
1. It’s free and secure
I must admit. Free and secure is excellent for entrepreneurs like me operating on small budgets. WordPress software is free and safe. Best of all, I can download a copy of WordPress for free, and when I have it, it’s mine to control.
No doubt about it. WordPress is an open-source software, which follows accessibility standards. Accessibility entails making the web easier to navigate for individuals living with physical or sensory impairments.
Shout out to the WordPress core team for making WordPress software more accessible to all. The front-end of WordPress is accessible, although it entirely depends on the developer building the site. This software has a dedicated accessibility team, which constantly works to improve WordPress. These guys know their stuff.
WordPress has a vast user community that faithfully contributes to the platform and provides continuous improvement. WordPress has a high share of the Content Management System (CMS) market. With all these people using this CMS, whenever I have a problem or a query, chances are high that I will find an answer in the WordPress support or developer forums.
If a non-technical person like me can, any small business entrepreneur in the USA can find WordPress help online using blogs, WordPress tutorials, and other beginner-friendly video tutorials on YouTube.
2. It’s the leading content management platform (CMS) in the world
WordPress is a big-time winner. There are millions of global websites built on the WordPress platform. Some of these websites include the following; Harvard Gazette Online, Staples Canada Blog, Mercedes-Benz, Vogue India, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Reuters Blogs, Wolverine Worldwide, SAP News Center, Snoop Dog, Wil Wheaton, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, The Mozilla Blog, The Walking Dead-AMC, The Rolling Stones, Rotary Means Business-Rotary Club, Inside Blackberry, ExpressJet Blog, The Official Rackspace Blog, Marks & Spencer for Business, The New York Times Company, Facebook Newsroom, Time Inc, among others.
I am not a fan of discussing numbers, but this software has impressive numbers. WordPress is utilized by 64.6% of all websites with a content management (CMS). This represents 40.7% of all websites.
I'm trying my best to be the most vibrant version of myself, although WordPress already has its best version. WordPress has Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. As of March 2021, Version 5 is used by 86.9% of all websites using WordPress. Version 4 is used by 12.4% of all websites using WordPress. Version 3 is used by 0.6%, Version 2 is used by less than 0.1%, and Version 1 is used by less than 0.1% of websites using WordPress.
3. It’s easy to use
I am blown away by WordPress because it is easy for me to use. It has advanced visual-based editors such as Divi, Elementor, BeaverBuilder, Gutenberg WordPress editor, etc. These visual-based editors are a great lift to my user experience and help me manage any WordPress website design and content.
All the technical and non-technical people out there can use WordPress efficiently. It is quite interactive and easy for me to use when creating web pages, blog posts, menus, forms. WordPress lets me manage media like images and videos with convenience.
What I see is what I always get. The WordPress visual editor is called a WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWIG represents, "what you see is what you get." The visual-based editors let me see and appreciate and edit what my blog posts look like before publishing them. This helps me make all the necessary adjustments before any one of my posts or pages go live.
WordPress has many tools, which simplify my work. The advanced visual-based editors make my job easy, especially now that I am conversant with Microsoft Word. The tools I use include bulleted points, font color, font size, font face, link icons, among others.
Instead of writing HTML, ordinary users, including me, a full-time model, can write posts and format them using WordPress toolbar buttons.
4. It grows with you
WordPress is an excellent software for enterprise sites of any size. I used it when my online store was still in its initial stages and now as it is expanding in size.
From a simple blogging platform, WordPress changed into the best CMS. The scalable nature of WordPress is profound! One web page having a good theme and the right plugins, when adequately configured, can serve millions of views every month without getting problems resulting from server overloading.
I know many extensive WordPress websites getting high traffic, which have more complex integrations and systems and utilizes an advanced hosting package.
The more traffic my webpage generates, the more I optimize and scale my WordPress site for it. The good thing about WordPress is that I have the liberty to refine and stretch it even beyond the 100M mark, with the correct structure and technical expertise.
The critical areas I concentrate on when scaling my site for high traffic include the following;
Database loading
Dealing with very many simultaneous users
Proper logging of data
Addressing HTTP requests
Applying caching layers
Media resources
High-end coding architecture
WordPress has a user community that's constantly adapting to new technologies and features. I don’t recall any of my inquires not getting answers on the platform.
What is more, whenever I type in a Google search, I can find someone else who suffered the same issues as mine or had similar questions answered by the WordPress user community. This is an invaluable resource, which helps me save time, which I would have spent on hectic research and troubleshooting.
5. You can take it anywhere
As a part-time model, who showcases clothes on different runways, I appreciate that WordPress runs on industry-standard hosting technology, and your site can be easily moved from one host to another.
Another sexy thing I can’t forget about WordPress is that I can own my site and content, instead of building a website on gated platforms like Six or Squarespace.
For further information about taking WordPress anywhere, refer to a companion post called, ‘Are You Building Your Website On The Wrong Platform?’
SUMMARY
As I wrap up the above considerations for entrepreneurs considering starting their businesses OR small businesses who have version 1.0 of their company website and are looking to take things to the next level, this is my observation. WordPress is a popular user-friendly software, which is great for content management (CMS).
KEY TAKEAWAY
WordPress is an excellent software for small and large businesses. It is more refreshing than new socks. Am glad I chose it.