Original title: Why did you choose WordPress to build a website?

The most common misunderstanding about WordPress is that WordPress is just a blog platform. In fact, WordPress is far more than a simple blog platform. At the beginning of its birth, WordPress was a blog platform, but after more than ten years of development, it has evolved into a powerful website builder and content management system (CMS).

In the previous article, we introduced Some concepts you should know before building a WORDPRESS website 。 Maybe someone will ask why WordPress must be used to build websites when there are so many website building tools on the market?

1. WordPress free and open source

WordPress It is a free open source software without any additional fees and conditions. You can download, install, use and adjust freely. You can use it to build different types of websites.

Although the WordPress software itself is free, you need a domain name and hosting host when installing it, which requires you to pay for it yourself.

domain name It is equivalent to the "house number" of your website. The user enters the domain name address in the browser address bar to visit your website. (For more information about domain names, please visit: How to register a website domain name? What should I pay attention to when registering domain names? ）

managed host As a "house" for storing websites, hosting hosts can be divided into two categories:

Non managed managed host: the user is responsible for the environment configuration, maintenance and security of the host
Managed host (such as Vopos host): the host manufacturer is responsible for host maintenance and security

(For more information on hosting, please visit: 5 common website hosting hosts ）

In addition, Open source may make the development of software more vital and dynamic 。 This is because open source software is not maintained by one person or company. Behind WordPress, there is a strong community composed of thousands of users, developers and small businesses, all of whom are working hard for the long-term development of WordPress.

Another little known fact is that WordPress is protected by the WordPress Foundation, which is a non-profit organization to ensure the sustainable development of WordPress.

2. Easy to use and friendly to beginners

WordPress is a flexible and powerful website building platform, but it is very friendly to newcomers and easy to use. Novice can also build websites quickly. WordPress has a simple dashboard with different menu options on the left. You can easily create pages, publish articles, customize website design and add navigation menus.

WordPress Dashboard

WordPress is very friendly to beginners. Beginners can easily maintain their own websites without any technical restrictions. You can see the update prompt on the WordPress dashboard, and you can update WordPress core files with one key. The same is true for updates to plugins and themes.

3. High customization

Most people who use WordPress are neither website designers nor programmers. In fact, many people do not have any knowledge of website design before using WordPress.

For these people, WordPress is the perfect solution, because there are thousands of free theme templates for you to choose from.

Almost every website has a perfect WordPress Theme (whether it is a blog, a commercial website or an online mall). WordPress Theme The customization of is very convenient, because these themes have their own option panel, you can Change the color, change the background, upload the logo, create different blocks, and completely customize the website without code.

WordPress customization

There are tens of thousands of plug-ins on WordPress. You can install plug-ins to add and implement advanced functions for the website, such as data analysis, forms, member zones, etc.

WordPress plug-in

4. Safe and reliable

WordPress was developed with security in mind, so it is a very safe and reliable website running platform. You can add some security plug-ins to further ensure the security of the website.

In order to provide multiple guarantees for website security and protect against hackers, malware and other dangers, WPScale hosts provide 27 security measures and anti DDoS protection. Each website has a real-time monitoring function, and administrators can receive security reminder emails in a timely manner.

5. Convenient social marketing

The development of the Internet has driven the development of more social media. In order to expand business, enterprises need to carry out omni channel and omni platform marketing in order to deliver information to more potential people. Through the plug-in of the third-party media platform on WordPress, you can synchronously share the content published on the WordPress website to other social media platforms.

In fact, the benefits of using WordPress to build a website are far more than the above five. You can find more "magic" in daily use.

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