Reasons Why you Prefer WordPress over other CMS

WordPress is the most widely used CMS platform. It has amazing easy to use features and functionalities due to which it has acquired a huge user-base. Before WordPress 3.0, it was considered as the best blogging platform. But after the arrival of WordPress 3.0, it has got full capacities to build a fully functional website. Now the tag of ''best blogging platform and unfit for making websites'' is removed from WordPress. It has emerged as a boon to all non geeks in the world of web designing. Though there are many other free and paid CMS available in the market but using WordPress solutions can improve user's online experience. We have enlisted few factors that why we should prefer to use WordPress than other CMS.

1) Free of Cost: In the initial stages of business, cost cutting strategy looks pretty good, so using WordPress as CMS can really prove cost effective while getting your work done by the best of CMS. The money saved here, can be invested in other services like website design and development.

2) Easy to use Interface: WP has an easy to use interface for which you don't need to hire HTML programmers/coders. Rather, it can be easily handled and managed by staff members of the organization. To work on this, you donot require knowledge of HTML or any other kind of coding. WordPress developers recommend this CMS to the clients due to its such an easy to handle interface.

3) Extended Scope of Customization: WP provides you a huge scope for customization. You can customize settings according to your business needs as following:

a) Scheduling Settings: With this, you can create and save content in advance and then can schedule it for publishing on any date. You don't need to remember the date of publishing as the content will automatically get published on the scheduled date.

b) Privacy Settings: This setting allows you to choose the extent to which you want to share information. It may happen that you want to create a private page for current clients apart from the other public sections for everyone who visits.

c) Adding Media: It is very important that we can add media files like image, audio, video etc. in our post. Sometimes, it becomes a indispensable requirement to add these media files. In WordPress, it is very easy to add multi-media content and that too within fraction of seconds.

4) Search Engine Friendliness: WordPress provides users as well as search engine friendly URLs. Your WP website is likely to be ranked higher in search engine results. Higher rankings in search results means higher traffic to the website. Higher traffic means more potential customers. More potential customers, implies more revenue.

5) Interactive, Amazing and Cool: WP is basically interactive in nature. Like visitors can post comments, provide feedback etc. This is an amazing and cool CMS which has a range of plugins and extensions which would do half of your job of managing the WP site/blog and makes you stress free.

CMS website design & development is in trend these days. So are you a WordPress fan? Or you like some other CMS? Tell us which one and why in the comments.