Five good reasons for WordPress

As WordPress agency We love WordPress as a content management system for many reasons. The openness of the system, which makes it easy for us to try out new design ideas or develop extensions (so-called plugins), for example. Or the incredible performance that allows even very large web projects or applications to be set up.

The lively developer community and the incredibly good documentation make developing with WordPress a pleasure. But a website based on WordPress also offers a lot of advantages for you as the end user.

1. WordPress makes you independent

WordPress is Open source software. This means that the source code of all components is freely available and you can install the software on any web server. Only PHP and MySQL or MariaDB need to be present on the system. This means you can easily move your finished website to a new provider and you don’t have to be tied to one provider forever. WordPress is regularly provided with updates and remains permanently protected from hacker attacks, no matter where you have it hosted - without you having to pay license fees.

2. Page maintenance becomes child’s play

Do you maintain a blog on your site or do you want to update other content regularly? As a powerful content management system, WordPress provides all the necessary functions that you need to provide your website with fresh content on your own. You can easily create additional user accounts for employees to contribute content together.

The “Gutenberg” editor included in the WordPress backend is as easy to use as your word processor in Office & Co. Formatting, inserting images and videos and linking to other pages are no problem.

The optional moderation mode gives you the opportunity to review your colleagues’ edits before final publication on the web.

3. WordPress makes analysis and evaluation easier

With the right plugins, WordPress creates detailed usage statistics for your site. These are clearly displayed and help you understand which products and sub-pages interest your visitors.

This gives you the opportunity to particularly feature these pages in the future, use them for cross-promotion measures or add other similar content. Shop systems based on WordPress, for example implemented with WooCommerce, also benefit from such analysis data.

4. WordPress is search engine optimized

Google and Co. also love the clear and clean structure of WordPress-based websites. Whether it’s a blog, web shop or product presentation: WordPress pages load quickly, can be easily optimized for mobile use and have semantic meta information that makes sorting easier for search engine parsers.

This means they have everything they need to be at the top of the search results, at least technically. With additional extensions, WordPress also helps to optimize the content.

5. Widespread use - CMS with the largest market share worldwide

Last but not least, the widespread use of WordPress is a real argument for its use. Around a third of all websites are now delivered using the CMS. Accordingly, there is now a lot of literature, seminars and supplementary software on the market.

In addition, if necessary, you can always find developers who can maintain your site for you, develop new plugins and take care of any errors. It is also certain that WordPress will be further developed, at least for the foreseeable future, and will receive rapid security patches and new functions.

With less common CMS solutions, it can sometimes take years until security holes are plugged and important features are added.

Is WordPress always the best choice?

WordPress is now 17 years old and has developed from a small blog software into a full-fledged CMS that is used worldwide. Although the development team repeatedly cut ties and rethought the framework during this time, attention was paid to long-term backwards compatibility.

This is precisely why WordPress is ideal for most websites. Because all conceivable usage scenarios are covered and made possible. An exception are very small pages, web business cards or individual product presentations. Where only a few, largely static pages are to be displayed, WordPress is sometimes simply too much of a good thing.

More minimalist systems, such as Flat File, Pico, Grav or our in-house SimpleCE can then be a better choice for building a fast-loading and simple website.

However, WordPress is the optimal solution for 95% of all company websites and blogs and it is not for nothing that it is the most used content management system in the world.

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