Website building in WordPress
If you are planning to build a website online, you can either hire a professional programmer to build it for you or you can build it yourself. Assuming you don’t have extensive knowledge of programming languages, chances are that WordPress will be the wisest choice for the platform on which you will build your website.
WordPress is a free, open-source platform that began as a system for building online blogs, but in recent years it has developed impressively and is now the most common in the world for building websites: one in every six websites on average is built on WordPress, meaning millions of blogs, business websites, image websites, online stores, landing pages, etc.
Why WordPress?
It’s not for nothing that WordPress has become the world’s most popular website building platform. It has a wide range of great benefits that make it an ideal choice, and here are five of them:
- Thanks to simplicity
Building websites with WordPress may seem complex to those who have not tried it themselves, but the truth is that it is a very simple operation. The website building system is extremely user-friendly, and it can be done using a wide range of built-in templates. You can choose a template according to your needs or personal taste, change colors and fonts, add and remove elements, and in a short time even someone with no previous experience in website building can create a website that works well and looks great.
The WordPress content management system is also very simple and user-friendly. You don’t need to know a programming language because the interface is in Hebrew (and can of course be changed to another language of your choice), and it’s easy to upload or edit content using a simple visual editing platform. Compared to closed systems built by independent programmers, the content of a WordPress-based website can be edited from anywhere in the world, even via a smartphone.
Building a WordPress website with ease
- Thanks to the plugins
As mentioned, the basic WordPress system is simple and user-friendly thanks to built-in templates, but you can add a variety of options to it using plugins – some are free and some are paid, but all can be a significant upgrade to your website.
There are tens of thousands of plugins for WordPress, and that’s no exaggeration. The fact that it’s an open-source platform allows any programmer around the world to create a plugin as they see fit, and some of them are so successful that they take the web by storm and become popular among website builders and administrators. For example, you can embed plugins on your site that will help optimize the content on your site, plugins that improve its technical performance, plugins that help with organic promotion on Google, design plugins, and so on.
- Thanks to open source
WordPress is a system that is open to all its users, and thanks to this fact, a broad, active, and vibrant community of programmers has been created around it, who, on the one hand, are constantly creating and updating plugins that increase its range of possibilities.
On the other hand, they also provide ongoing technical support. This means that for any question, problem, or concern, you can find a quick, efficient, and reliable solution in a short time.
Open source is also an advantage in terms of security, as in the same way that the community creates plugins, it closes security holes and releases updates and upgrades to various plugins as problems are discovered. For example, if a hole is found in a particular plugin, it can be reported and it will be closed within a short time.
- Thanks to mobile compatibility
As more and more people use mobile devices to browse the Internet, the importance of websites being optimized for use on a smartphone or tablet screen rather than a desktop computer screen increases: loading quickly, operated by a finger rather than a keyboard, etc. Even certain search engines, including Google, have already announced that they will give priority in search results to websites that are optimized for mobile – which has significantly changed the SEO industry in search results.
If your website is built on WordPress, you can rest assured: unlike many other website building platforms, WordPress is fully optimized for search engines. There’s no need to create a separate app for mobile users, no need to make adjustments to desktop versions that appear on mobile, and so on.
In this context, it is also worth noting that mobile compatibility is one of the most prominent elements in recent years when it comes to promoting a website in search engines, but also in terms of promoting on Google in the broader sense, WordPress does a good job: it is easy to update and edit tags and titles, for example, and there are many plugins whose essence is to improve the promotion of a website in search engines in various ways.
- Thanks to the price
Nowadays, everything is calculated according to the economic component, so there is no choice but to talk about the cost side, but in this aspect too, WordPress has a significant advantage over many other platforms: it is very economically viable, especially compared to building a website by an independent programmer. If in the past it was customary to quote five-figure sums for building a relatively modest website, today it is possible to build large, visually pleasing, and content-rich websites – even for very low sums. In fact, theoretically, it is possible to build a spectacular and effective WordPress website even on a zero budget, if you use ready-made templates and free plugins only; however, in most cases, even using premium plans or plugins for which you have to pay a monthly usage fee, will still cost less than building a website in other ways.
Summary
There are many platforms on which you can build a website, but building websites on WordPress is the most worthwhile. The fact that it is an easy-to-use platform that does not require programming knowledge or previous experience in building websites, and combines flexibility in building, designing, and editing content along with the simplicity of performing actions to promote the site in search engines – all of these together constitute the perfect basket of advantages for choosing WordPress. There is no doubt that thanks to this platform, supported by a wide community all over the world, you can achieve ideal results for your website as well.
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