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A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled ‘5 Reasons WordPress Should be your CMS‘. Since that time I have utilized WordPress on a couple of other projects and have discussed the potential of the WordPress structure with other clients for their sites. Simply put WordPress is a great tool. It is easily customizable architecture that can be customized to fit a whole lot of needs. After the last couple of projects I think there are a few things that I have noticed that really make WordPress great.
Premium Themes
For one of my projects we utilized a Premium Theme (i.e. pay for it theme). It was one of the themes available from WooThemes. Premium themes are great. What makes them great is the fact that for a very small price, you get a great custom look and feel for your web site. This is something that many companies pay a significant amount to have created on their website. Also you can customize the theme to make it yours. This is a great thing for anyone who wants to build a site very efficiently.
Plugins for All
The wealth of plugins available for WordPress is completely unbelievable. On the projects that I have been working on, pretty much every need that the client had could be met by a plugin that I found. Many of the plugins are free and are extremely helpful for solving business problems. It is truly amazing the amount of functionality available out there to customize your WordPress web site.
Blank Slate
In working with WordPress, it is always amazing the level of control that you can have over the entire structure and system. You can customize pretty much every piece of the site. Even though we utilized a premium theme on one of the projects, there we things that needed to be altered about that theme to fit the client’s need. By adding plugins, graphics, and changing some of the underlying styles and colors we were able to create a custom site for the clients amazingly easy.
The main reasons why WordPress should be the underlying CMS for your web site: Ease and the ability to customize. You will get the site that you want in an efficient manner and you will then be able to maintain your own content and keep the site fresh. It’s a great tool.
[Republished from RefocusingTechnology.com]
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