WordPress is software platform based on PHP and MySQL database, which allows to publish content on your website easily and quickly. At the beginning it was meant to support blogs, however its features have grown what results in fully mature product with vast number of possible applications and unprecedented ease of use.
WordPress usage examples:
- blogs,
- news websites, e-magazines,
- corporate websites,
- photo galleries,
- e-commerce.
Main advantages:
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Easy installation
WordPress installation takes only few minutes (not counting time necessary to send files to the FTP server) – it requires to enter data necessary to connect with database, e-mail address and administrator password.
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User friendliness
Content management as well as other website areas are intuitive and don’t require any technical knowledge.
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Ready-made extensions
Lots of readymade themes and extensions are available, that are both easy to install and use. They greatly extend websites functionality, what in many cases eliminates necessity to perform additional development works.
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Easy development of new extensions
Thanks to number of available functions and well prepared documentation even novice developer can create own theme or easy plugin for a website powered by WordPress.
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Optimized for search engines
WordPress allows to easily create friendly links, moreover it gives full control over the source code what perfectly facilitates search engine optimization.
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Versatile data structure
The core element is an object - blog post. It can be freely enriched by additional fields of many kinds which gives almost unlimited possibilities. This is the basic advantage of WordPress flexibility.
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Low implementation cost
Thanks to the GPL license WordPress is free of any charges. Besides it’s supported by large community of developers, who endlessly create new extensions for various purposes. This all results in fact that setting up new website on WP is much cheaper than in case commercial tools.
