Content Management Systems (CMS) came into play in the early part of this century. Some of the most popular ones are WordPress, Joomla, Drupal & Magento that are all built on the PHP framework. With the entry of CMS and their evolution in terms of functionality they provide and ease of use, a vast majority of websites today are built using some form of CMS. In today's blog, we will look at the benefits of using WordPress as a preferred CMS for your company's website.
- Technology Penetration According to the latest statistics from builtwith.com, WordPress is the most used CMS with a 38% share for the top 10,000 websites using CMS technologies based on any framework. This number goes up to a staggering 50% share for the entire Internet. There are close to 15 million websites globally that are powered by WordPress.
- Off-the-shelf Product WordPress is a ready to use CMS. Even if you are new to the world of programming, you can create your own WordPress website by going through some very simple tutorials. At the same time, it has ample functionality that a professional developer would love to use when creating a website.
- Website Administration & Management It is extremely easy to manage the website including your domain, hosting and the WordPress Admin panel as well. What this means is that you are in complete control of your website including the content and code of the website and do not have to rely on anyone, which is not the case for a lot of websites built using other technologies.
- Highly Scalable WordPress can support any scale of websites - be it a personal blog or a corporate website or an ecommerce website. Whatever type of business you have, you will be able to build a great website using WordPress.
- Highly Customizable Design It is not necessary to only use the readymade templates or some standard templates to design your website. WordPress allows you to create custom designs based on your brand entity and easily integrate it with the platform. You can get a completely customized layout design translated into a great looking website.
- Multi-user Functionality Depending on the access that you would like to give to different people for accessing your website's back-end, you can create multiple users and allow them to access only what you want them to access. This is very critical when you have sensitive data that you would only like the top management to access.
- No HTML Knowledge required Did you think that it is essential to know how to write HTML code to create a website? Think again, as when you use WordPress to create a website, you don't actually need to write HTML code. You can achieve all the functionality that you require through widgets and plugins.
- Large number of plugins You can achieve loads of functionality by using the great plugins that are available for WordPress. From customer contact forms to live chat to customized plugins for capturing specific data to optimizing your website for SEO, everything is possible with WordPress.
- Great Support Due to the sheer number of developers using WordPress as a platform of choice, you can rest assured to get great support from the community - be it a simple query of how to use a plugin or be it a complex query on the working of a piece of customized code, the community will always be ready to help.



