{"id":3065,"date":"2021-03-05T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imensosoftware.com\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:43:45","slug":"6-reasons-why-wordpress-is-still-the-best-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imensosoftware.com\/blog\/6-reasons-why-wordpress-is-still-the-best-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons Why\u00a0WordPress\u00a0Is Still the Best CMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Whenever someone thinks of creating a blog or open an\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0store,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0is the first choice for many. Why is it so?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But first, let\u2019s see how it all started.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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WordPress\u00a0was released on May 27th 2003, and this year the blogging platform will celebrate its 18th birthday. It\u2019s not just the easy installation and intuitive design that has made it the most successful CMS platform.\u00a0WordPress\u00a0has evolved from being a blogger friendly platform to a CRM trusted by fortune 500 companies and\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0stores with millions of dollars in sales.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

WordPress\u00a0Success Glimpses\u202f\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

– After the popular blogging system b2\/cafelog\u00a0shuts down,\u202fMatt\u00a0Mullenweg<\/a>, a college student creates his version of b2 with\u202fMike Little<\/a>. They named it\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

– Both the founders launched the first version of\u00a0WordPress\u00a0on 27 may, 2003,\u00a0WordPress\u00a00.7 followed by the first update – Davis in January 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

– By 2011,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0reached an impressive milestone of 50 million\u00a0WordPress\u00a0blogs and three years later 22% of all the world\u2019s website is being built using\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

– The parent company of\u00a0WordPress,\u00a0Automattic\u00a0is now has a $3 billion valuation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So what made\u00a0WordPress\u00a0so successful?\u202f\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1. Ease of Use\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Since the release of the first version,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0has had many updates which have made it the easiest CMS to get started with. Both user management and website management is super easy. Millions of webmaster trust\u00a0WordPress\u00a0across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

From installation to setting up an entire website, it takes minutes. And nobody has to be an expert at coding or know how to build a website using HTML. With absolutely no code, any kind of website is ready on\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Read Blog: Top 3 WordPress Development Tools<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The simple backend dashboard has a user-friendly interface. The layout and language are set in a way that makes it possible for anyone to run a professional website. The entire website\u2019 content, media, settings, and installed plugins can be accessed from it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2. It\u2019s Free\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It is and has always been free.\u00a0WordPress\u00a0since its inception has been cost-effective for users worldwide. (Although large enterprises should keep the cost of hosting and domain in mind.)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The pricing structure of\u00a0WordPress\u00a0is simple. Even if you don\u2019t like the free themes and layout. There are thousands of paid ones available with professional pictures to choose from. The themes are available for all price range from affordable to $10,000 per year for customized themes with built-in features.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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3. SEO Friendly\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

WordPress\u00a0has been vastly successful and one of the major reasons is that it\u2019s SEO friendly. The content management system solves a lot of SEO issues automatically and offers tons of tools to optimize your website for better reach.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  1. WordPress\u00a0has the inbuilt functionality to be search engine friendly. When the search engine robots crawl the\u00a0WordPress\u00a0website, it is easily indexed.\u00a0WordPress\u00a0also offers the plugin,\u00a0Yoast\u00a0SEO to improve site performance.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  2. Google loves a website that has optimized content, mobile-friendliness and easy navigation. And\u00a0WordPress\u00a0has all three. That is why Google adores\u00a0WordPress\u00a0sites.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  3. Not just Google,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0is compatible with other search engines as well: Yahoo, Bing and Firefox. So\u00a0WordPress\u00a0can get traffic from anywhere and it\u2019s not a problem.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  4. WordPress\u00a0sites have responsive architecture and are mobile-friendly too. Now that more and more people are going mobile-first, Google has made it mandatory for websites to have responsive designs. Thus\u00a0WordPress\u00a0websites rank higher for mobile searches as well.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  5. To optimize content for SEO,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0allows all the major settings: H1, H2 tags, Meta title and description, image optimization, and internal linking.\u00a0WordPress\u00a0has plugins for all the major SEO factors.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n
  6. WordPress\u00a0websites load faster. Even if has been around for so long,\u00a0WordPress\u00a0has made sure to evolve to match the ever upgrading Google standards. A faster loading website is good for user retention, lesser bouncing rates and paid campaigns as well.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    Read Blog: SEO Friendly urls not working in wordpress on IIS Server<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    WordPress\u00a0as a content management system has a whole package of SEO. There are plugins for all major factors separately and combined. With\u00a0WordPress\u00a0as your CMS, you won\u2019t have to worry about your site performance as per SEO again.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    4. A Website For Everyone (Literally)\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    What\u00a0WordPress\u00a0might lack in native functionality, it covers up in plugins. The brilliant model of plugins is what\u00a0WordPress\u00a0is known for. The plugin structure and availability on\u00a0WordPress\u00a0is second to none.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    There are over 200 free themes for everybody to install and experiment with. And much more third party plugins and themes for businesses and individuals to create customized websites.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    The themes are highly flexible, one can alter\u00a0color\u00a0and fonts to manufacture a unique website for their business or\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0store such that no two websites are the same.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Read Blog: Is Shopify the best eCommerce Solution for your Business in 2021?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    WordPress\u00a0has a vast and ever-expanding ecosystem of themes, plugins and new features because it is open-sourced. That means anybody can create any kind of website they want with\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    It is not just a blogging platform. The open-source feature has made\u00a0WordPress\u00a0rank in the top list of big enterprises, multinational companies to small non-profitable charities. Using woo commerce<\/a>, it has never been easy to create an\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0store on\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Since its first launch the content management system has evolved into a beast that caters to every possible imagination of people for creating and managing websites.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    5. Universal Users\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    There are over 75 million websites that use\u00a0WordPress\u00a0according to the\u00a0WordCamp\u00a0site. People across the planet from different countries use\u00a0WordPress\u00a0to build their personal and business websites. The standard composition of the dashboard is best for remote working teams. Multi-language translation can also be achieved through plugins to accommodate just about anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    6. Excellent Community Support\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    There is no official support from WordPress.org, but there is a huge community of\u00a0WordPress\u00a0developers. One can post questions or emails in forums and get an answer to any question fairly quickly. Like\u00a0Reddit, the community always help each other out. Even the follow-ups are easy.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Read Blog: 7 Ways to improve your WordPress Website Security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Future of\u00a0WordPress\u202f\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    WordPress\u00a0is not the only content management system, but it has been around long enough to conclude that it is not going anywhere soon.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    The owners and developers work hard to ensure that the users are delivered with time-relevant updates and features that make using the platform worthwhile.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Our\u00a0WordPress\u00a0development<\/a> team loves geeking\u00a0out about plugins, themes and write code to create better features on the open-sourced CMS. If you need an expert\u00a0WordPress\u00a0developer, just send a mail.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    Also, keep reading the blog in future for more information about\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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