Why Use WordPress For Blogging

WordPress is a most popular and used Content Management System (CMS) today. WordPress is currently installed in 60 million websites and blogs. WordPress was started in 2003 as a blogging platform but now this content management system is supporting approx 22% websites in the world.

Almost every pro blogger has using this software for managing there blogs, so if you planning to start any blog then don’t ignore wordpress and learn why you should use wordpress for blogging. Many other blogging platforms available for starting a blog but i recommend to use wordpress for creating more seo friendly blog.

WordPress is not just a blogging platform, you can create an eCommerce website or even mobile applications with this CMS. Many top brands use wordpress for making seo friendly website or blog. This CMS is very easy to use and lean and no coding required for managing websites on wordpress. This CMS allows user to full administrative control over there website.

Many new bloggers thinking “why i use wordpress instead of any other CMS “. So here i explaining the major reasons for use wordpress for blogging.

 1. WordPress is a free

The wordpress is available for free you don’t need to pay money for this content management system. You can use it to create many type of websites or blogs. This is an open source software for everyone, you can download, install and modify for free.

You just need a custom domain and web hosting to install this software. Many web hosting providers provide one click wordpress install to websites or you can choose manual wordpress install.

 2. Themes and plugins

2,400 Themes + and 49’500 + plugins available for your wordpress website. You can create your own plugin and plugins. Thousands of themes and plugins are available for free and premium, you can easily customize wordpress themes as you required.

You don’t need coding knowledge for making website on wordpress, just choose theme that you need like photography , news or eCommerce theme. Thousands of free and premium plugins are available for your every need like contact form, seo, payment integration and security plugins.

Free plugins are available with limited features only if you want full features of the plugin then you need to purchase full version of plugin. Plugins helps a lot to maintain, design and optimize a website for search engines.

 3. Easy to use

WordPress is very easy to learn and use for everyone. Many peoples joins wordpress community everyday for creating websites and the reason is the easy to learn wordpress. You can read all about wordpress on wordpress documentation and easily learn about uses and features about wordpress.

 4. Wide support community

Every new blogger wants support for starting a blog for first time and you can get every solution of your wordpress problem on wordpress forum. As a newbie blogger you can search on google and easily find the solutions for any problem.

when i was setup my first wordpress blog , i didn’t have any knowledge about wordpress but i read all documentation on wordpress.org and created my blog easily.

 5. WordPress is search engine friendly

WordPress is the most search engine friendly content management system as compare to other blogging platforms. Many SEO Optimized and responsive themes available for better SEO of your website. You can also use SEO plugins for increasing more search engine visibility.

Also Read : Complete On Page SEO Guide

 6. WordPress is secure

WordPress is developed with security features, your website is secure and safe with wordpress cms but you need to take more attention on website security. You must use security any plugin (like securi plugin) for more protection of your wordpress website or blog. I also use securi plugin for protecting my blog from hackers and spammers.

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