The 15 years old CMS, WordPress, has been the first choice of more than a half of the world when it comes to website development. WordPress is a PHP based Content Management System that is highly flexible and is helping people across the globe to create a different place on the internet for their businesses. The CMS was considered to be a blogging platform, but soon with the addition of various features and functionalities, it has helped people develop their business websites with different usages. Here are a few reasons that make it the most used CMS of all:

• Free & Open Source: WordPress is a free CMS, that means, it has no downloading, installing, and upgrading cost. One can simply go to the WordPress’ website and download it without spending an extra penny. Also, being an open source platform, WordPress is open for changes, and anyone can contribute to it, by writing patches and codes, to improve its functionalities.
• WordPress is Easy to Use and Learn: WordPress is popular for its simple design and easy to use dashboard. To use WordPress, one doesn’t have to be a developer or a pro at programming. The process starts with a simple download, and one can read all the instructions given in the WordPress forum and learn the process from installation to its working. Also, the large WordPress community is always there for answering all the queries.
• Highly customizable for great flexibility: The so-called “Blogging CMS”, is much more than that. WordPress is being used by millions of users to create different types of websites to fulfil different purposes. The highly customizable CMS can be used to create a simple blogging website, a membership website or even an e-Commerce website. WordPress has all the solutions for one’s business needs.
• Themes and Plugins: WordPress has got a wide range of themes and plugins, that increase its functionality to a great extent. There are a number of free themes and plugins available online that can enhance the presence as well as the functioning of a website. Also, paid themes and plugins are also available online with additional features and unique content.
• Search Engine Friendly: The WordPress code is written by considering the marketing and SEO aspect of the websites. WordPress is an SEO friendly CMS that also allow the user to use various plugins for a better SEO; free plugins as well as paid.
• Safe and Secure: WordPress is highly secure to run any websites. Although many hackers and intruders can find some loopholes in the system, you can still make your website safe by following some basic steps. You must upgrade your WordPress with every single update. Never download any plugin from a website other than WordPress.org. Also, you can see the complete guide available on the WordPress website to achieve maximum security for your website.
• Multimedia friendly: As we have already said, WordPress is not just a blogging website, but a user can also create different types of content with WordPress, including a text, an audio or a video content. WordPress is highly supportive of different multimedia features. For instance, a user can even create a whole video website, using WordPress.
• Large Community: WordPress is a community software. Millions of people are volunteers connected to the WordPress community, to contribute to it, with their codes, forums, documentation updates as well as the new plugins. The developers who are actively using WordPress are the major part of the WordPress’ growth. Thousands of developers are continuously updating the codes, libraries and documents on WordPress every day, forming a huge WordPress family.
• The most popular CMS in the world: Being a free as well as secure CMS, WordPress is the top most used CMS for website development all over the world. According to some researches, 60 million websites, including 30.6% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, have been created using WordPress. The percentage of usage of WordPress, around the world, with respect to its contemporaries CMSs is 59%.

The Xornor team has got years of experience in WordPress customization and extending its functionality using a wide range of plugins. Contact us today for your, WordPress based, business or e-Commerce website development.