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WordPress Development – Simple, Cost-effective, Efficient

The WordPress CMS (Content Management System) is the world’s most widely used platform in the world today for both websites and blogs. Today, it is estimated that more than 60 million websites are powered by WordPress and more than 20% of the top 10 million websites are also powered by WordPress in some way, shape or form. Everyone from the local shop down the road to enterprise organizations such as Sony, Best Buy, BBC News, MTV News, Beyonce, TechCrunch, NASA, Fortune, Quartz, The New Yorker and many more rely on the functionality and brilliant features that WordPress provides. So, if you are choosing to go with WordPress development for your business or personal needs, rest assured you are making a great decision that you won’t regret at all. So, why exactly are so many companies choosing to go with the WordPress CMS platform is the magic question. Below, we will discuss some of those reasons why choosing to go the WordPress development route is a great choice no matter how small or big our business may be:

✓ Super Easy To Use – The biggest reason why the WordPress CMS has become so popular is due to the ease of use that it provides both users and developers alike. Firstly, from a user perspective, you don’t need to have any prior coding knowledge or even be technically savvy to operate the WordPress platform unlike other CMS platforms that exist in the market today. It may take some playing around but its fairly easy to use even for the most non-technical people. From a WordPress developers perspective, its also super easy to operate since everything is very straightforward and modular based. If you are an entry level developer, one of the first CMS platforms that a WordPress development company would make you work on is the WordPress CMS as its super easy to use and understand for beginners. So, by choosing to go with WordPress development when creating your website or blog, don’t worry as it’s very easy to learn the ropes. Lastly, if you choose to work with a WordPress development company to help you create your blog or website, ask them for some tutorial and training sessions which they will be able to provide more than happily in most cases.

✓ Plugins & Extensions – When it comes to free or paid plugins, modules or extensions, it’s a WordPress developers dream world. The reason is that no other CMS has more options available and at last check they are more than 30,000 options to choose from. Since millions of websites have used and are using WordPress to power their CMS or blog, you can be pretty darn sure that any type of functionality or feature you need that WordPress doesn’t come with out of the box, it has been developed by someone and is easily available. No other CMS offers more options and features when it comes to plugins, extensions or modules that WordPress so rest assured you are choosing an option that you will not regret by going the WordPress development route. Lastly, ask the WordPress development company you are working with to provide recommendations based around your business needs as more than likely they have installed similar if not the same plugins or extensions for other clients in the past.

✓ Open Source & Free – Many CMS platforms out there are paid solutions as well as in some cases are free but WordPress is completely free and open source which means 2 things. Firstly, they are no licensing or annual fees that you need to pay which make it a lucrative choice from a cost perspective. In addition it is fully open source meaning that if you know PHP and you are a development professional, you can customize the WordPress according to your business needs. The WordPress CMS is built in PHP and fully open source which means that any type of customization or feature you want that is not built in can be easily created with the help of a WordPress development professional.

✓ SEO Friendly – Just having a website or blog is one thing but you need to make sure it’s visible and people can find it online when searching for the products or services that you are offering. When you choose to go with WordPress development you are choosing a CMS platform that is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly as even Google the world’s largest search engine recommends using WordPress for your website or blog. You can do a whole host of things very easily such as add Meta Tags, Descriptions, Customized URL’s and a whole host of other things as well for your website or blog. When it comes to making sure your website or blog is SEO-friendly, you won’t be let down with the WordPress CMS. Lastly, you can add many free SEO plugins which will help guide your efforts when it comes to SEO such as SEO Yoast for example which is also the most used SEO plugin for WordPress as of date. SEO friendliness and WordPress development go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly so rest assured that by choosing to go the WordPress development route, you are choosing a SEO friendly solution which is a must in this day and age. Lastly, you should also ask the WordPress development company you are working with to provide their recommendations on what SEO plugins are best for your website or blog.

✓ Support & Community – When it comes to a great community and support, WordPress development is the go to to choice as there is literally hundreds of thousands of developers/users across the world that can help you, guide you or even answer those tough questions. The WordPress development community is great in that they have tons of forums, support areas and can easily solve any problem you have quite literally. The reason is simple in that they are so many users across the globe as well as people who have probably faced similar problems as to what you have more than likely so they will more than likely have the solution that you need. Lastly, since WordPress development is so common, it is very easy, simple and cost-effective to find a WordPress development professional to help you making it yet again a great decision no matter what your needs may be.

Summary
If you are looking for a secure, reliable, trusted, easy to use, robust and widely used CMS platform for your business or personal needs, look no further than the WordPress CMS. It’s no accident that it is the world’s most highly used CMS platform as it offers much more than any other CMS platform in the market today. Whether you are developing a WordPress website yourself, getting it developed by a freelancer or even a WordPress development company, rest assured you are making a good decision that millions of other people have made in the past by choosing to go the WordPress route. When choosing a WordPress company or a freelancer to work with for example, ensure that you check the portfolio of work they provide along with references to get a good sense of the capabilities that these people or companies actually possess. Time and due diligence is required for these type of things as if you rush into a decision, it will end up costing you a lot more in the long run. If you are looking for a reliable, trusted and experienced WordPress development company, please feel free to reach out to the team at Mind Digital Group for any of your development or digital marketing needs you have.