6 Reasons Why Your Business Website Should Switch to WordPress

Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox
Published in
2 min readApr 19, 2016

WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) that is powered by PHP and MySQL. Launched WordPress CMS in 2003 and now become the most popular CMS in the world. WordPress was originally created as blogging platform and later became powerful CMS. Over 25% of websites in the world use WordPress CMS. If you have plan to build a website for your business , you should use WordPress CMS by the following reasons.

  1. It is Free of Charges

WordPress CMS is 100% free and very suitable for your website. It is open source and you can modify the source code to build your custom site.

2. Flexible and Easy to Use

WordPress CMS has very flexible features than others CMS. It is easy to manage your website such as delete, update, posting, sharing, etc. You can manage your blog, business portfolio, or e-commerce website easily without programming skills. So, WordPress is user-friendly, and you can learn WordPress within in a few minutes.

3. Customization

Thousands of WordPress themes and Plugins are available on WordPress.org and others web markets such as themeforest, elegantthemes, themezilla, codecanyon,etc. You can manage and activate these themes and plugins by single click. There are endless customization for WordPress sites.

4. Integration

WordPress can integrate with most popular platforms that will boost your website. Need to connect with social media network ?. Don’t worry. There are many plugins to integrate this features with WordPress. Need a payment gateway system in your site?. So many payment plugins are available by free or paid version. Do you want to launch email campaign?. You can use service like Aweber, MailChimp or others as WordPress plugins integration to your website. So, these numerous integration can boost your business website and turn into any types of website like as blog, company, magazine, membership, forum, marketing, e-commerce or others.

5. Safe and Secure

WordPress is most popular CMS and hackers target WordPress website seriously. WordPress updates its CMS to prevent attacks and there are numerous WordPress security plugins by free or paid version. To avoid from hacking, don’t use nulled themes and plugins. Some of themes and plugins have serious coding. So, don’t download from untrusted websites.

6. SEO Friendly

There are many SEO tools for WordPress CMS. WordPress is easy to crawl by search engines. You can boost your website by using SEO tools. WordPress is already technically quite a good platform for SEO. And the most popular search engines prefer sites that are created by WordPress CMS.

Conclusion

Due to its flexible and easy manageable system, you should use WordPress CMS to build your website. You can turn your website into any form just a single click but you need to install and integrate additional themes and plugins. If you are planning to build a business website within in a short time, I recommend you to use WordPress CMS due to its rich features.

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Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox

I’m a WordPress developer and trainer of Web Development Class at Myanmar Tech Wave. Founder of newbiesbox.com and love in writing and playing Kyokushin karate.