Many of the times when I am writing about WordPress, I guess maybe I assume that everyone knows about WordPress. Probably just a hazard of the job/business. Of course not everyone knows what WordPress is. But… if you’re interested in a great looking maintainable website for your business… you SHOULD know what WordPress is. So, I’ll just take a few minutes to outline basically what WordPress is and then you can look around a little and see how beneficial it is to your business.
What is WordPress?
WordPress.org (WordPress’s home/mecca) says the following:
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
WordPress started out a blogging software but it is so much more than that now. It isn’t just for blogging. You can customize it to support your entire site. This allows you to maintain your site’s content via a simple graphic editor. This means that you or anyone in your company can change that marketing information with the simple click of a button. You can add links, news stories, blog posts, job postings, product updates, etc, etc, etc. That is what “state-of-the-art publishing platform” really means.
Want more about WordPress from WordPress.org? Here is the About section.
How does WordPress help me?
Simply put, WordPress makes it easy for you to maintain your own website for the vast majority of the time. You don’t need a programmer or a designer on your staff to update content. With a little bit of training, you can more than likely handle 95-99% of the site updates yourself without any need for anyone else.
If the need does arise for assistance, WordPress even makes it easier on the developer to customize.
Those two facts really are summed up quite simply: WordPress saves you time and money.
Here are 5 more reasons that you should use WordPress.
More Questions?
Take a few minutes to explore the site and see if it all makes more sense.
Not sure where to go next? I would recommend taking a look at “Where To Start?“.
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