By now, you would have probably heard about WordPress so many times that you are probably wondering what it is all about, well here it is. WordPress is an excellent choice for building a professional website or creating blogs that are SEO-friendly.
The best part about WordPress is that it is absolutely free and given the fact that currently about 24% of all websites on the net are powered by WordPress speaks volumes about this website building tool.
The truth behind why it is so popular is that WordPress makes you choke on the huge collection of themes that it has to offer, the hosting capabilities, the plugins for added functionality and the best part is that it is so easy to learn.
There are endless possibilities of what you are able to do with WordPress from both web design and SEO requirements. The fact that there are already a significant amount of SEO-optimized WordPress themes that users are able to choose from and subsequently customised to suit their own needs makes the benefits of using WordPress to build your site had to overlook.
In this article, we will start off with WordPress themes which are similar website templates with the only big difference being most WordPress themes are as flexible can be meaning that they are highly customisable. Moving on from themes to WordPress plugins which are akin to apps for smartphones, allow you to add more functionality to your site which range from design, Google Analytics, social media links, and SEO elements.
Just like apps, there are thousands and thousands of WordPress plugins that are just waiting to be grabbed and used for free. The questions about SEO has probably started lurking around the corners of your mind so let’s put that to rest as WordPress has been observed to take care most of the SEO mechanics leaving you with very little to do except pay website developers a minimal fee to get your page ranked and maintained properly.
Now comes the blogging bit, believe it or not WordPress was actually built for the sole purpose of blogging, but as time went by, the system evolved and eventually it was transformed into a content management system that was capable of being used for constructing not just blogs, but also websites and websites that are linked to blogs.
Adding pages to your site and attaching a blog has never been easier. Coming up to the million dollar question, which is (drumroll) “Is WordPress capable of doing this?” The short answer to that question is YES it can, and this is based on the fact that almost every WordPress themes are coupled with built-in features that range from portfolios, social media, contact forms, sliders and other elements and if at all a theme does not contain something specific you require, there is a high probability that the plugin does.
This, by the way, is also the reason as to why the functionality of WordPress is said to be unmatchable as WordPress is seamless in whether you are adding content or embedding videos from YouTube, whether you are selling products via other e-Commerce platforms or integrating newsletters, this software is able to handle pretty much anything you throw at it!
