WordPress is the most utilized content management system (CMS) in the worldwide. It’s used by over 60 million websites and 22% of the world’s most known sites. Amazingly there are still users who aren’t convinced, so we are sharing some additional perks that will prove that WordPress should be your CMS of choice.
WordPress is available with a huge library of free plugins, over 30,000 of them in the directory, and there are also thousands of top notch themes and plugins.
WordPress has built in SEO advantages as well as additional ecommerce capabilities if your business needs to set up an e-commerce store. It’s user friendly, even if your tech abilities are limited.
There are many well known companies using WordPress to power their websites, from The New Yorker and TechCrunch to celebrity star sites like Beyoncé’s.
Still not on board? Below are industry expert testimonials sharing their perspectives on why they use WordPress.
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‘The main reason why I use WordPress is because of its flexibility. Considering all the power of WordPress and the plugins, if you were to build any of that from scratch, you would be spending tens of thousands. WordPress is fairly easy to setup and flexible enough for majority of use cases.’ – Syed Balkhi, Founder of WPBeginner
‘It’s easy to set up, and it has a great community of folks using and developing for it. Plus, we had the Moz blog on a home-grown platform and I wanted to experiment with WordPress given its popularity.’
‘I’ve never had a problem with it or a reason to migrate to another service, so it’s mostly inertia and customer satisfaction that keeps me on.’
‘I need to be up-to-speed with what’s popular in the web publishing/marketing world and WordPress is certainly one of those, so it makes sense for me to embrace and use so I can be empathetic and helpful to others who do.’ – Rand Fishkin, Founder of Moz
‘The community of developers and people using WordPress is growing exponentially. The number of high-traffic sites using it is also growing. For these reasons I feel very comfortable putting my trust into that platform.‘ Brian Gardner, Partner at Copyblogger Media
If you are thinking about moving to a new website think first and foremost about WordPress, because it’s economical, simple and effective.
