The Wildfire That Is WordPress To begin with, a content management system (CMS) is one of the most popular offerings of the Internet. It is imperative to understand that any software application (a set of related programmes) capable of generating and managing content in the digital space is a CMS. Most online interactions of both the social and the business sorts occur over CMSs, of which WordPress rules the roost. To make out why WordPress is the one that rages above its lesser-known counterparts, you need to bear in mind the pleasantries it offers to the budget-conscious web application builder:- WordPress is free (think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer).
- The installation is as good as automatic, at most 5 minutes – if you have skipped WordPress.com, that is.
- It is the pet of system editors, thanks to its superlatively simple and straightforward interface. An intuitively graspable front-end characterizes it – the home page has the titles/abstracts that lead to your full-length content making the site grandpa-friendly. See what we are talking about?
- It allows you to save on feature scalability, maintenance and downtime monitoring because of its world-class plugin repository, which we think is really underestimated.
- Host multiple WordPress sites on the same installation.
- h references? You need to probe if you want to be sure of where you are spending your money.
- Do you see yourself partnering with them to run a business? You need to bear in mind that you do not just hire a dev-team, you collaborate with one.
- Finally, the all-important question that begets no explanation: would the expense you incur on your chosen developers right now likely to bring you the long-run gains you are after?
Before you choose WordPress, here are a few things that you need to tally with what you want out of your web application:-- Because it is open source, you need to play around with a wide range of security plugins to throw off malicious activity.
- Despite the much-raved about community support, WordPress does not have much by way of tech support from its side.
- Updates are not time-consuming, but frequent. Even though it is undesirable, updates can break your existing site at times.
- It consumes a tonne of CPU power and memory, given how well it performs.
- Finally, it has MySQL database backend. It is not touted as exceptionally secure, but latest releases of WordPress employ the more reliable My SQLi driver.