WordPress – what is it used for?
The days when WordPress was only used for blogging are long gone. With the release of version 3.0 in 2010, it became a full-fledged content management system (CMS). Since then, WordPress has seen tremendous growth in popularity. It is now used on more than 40% of all websites on the Internet! [1]. Almost half of these are online stores based on WooCommerce, the current standard of the e-commerce industry.
What makes WordPress such a popular choice for developing smaller and more advanced applications?
Here are some of the highlights of this platform:
- It has a huge community that creates great free and paid plugins to extend the capabilities of WordPress. There’s a good chance that the functionality you need has already been implemented as a plugin. Plugins are also often easy to modify and customize.
- It offers a user-friendly admin panel that everyone will find their way around. You can use it to add new content, change the look of the site, and install themes and plugins.
- It provides a great base for developing advanced applications, as it immediately provides the basic functionality that virtually every web application needs. Prominent among them are: support for users, permissions and sessions. As a result, developers do not have to create applications from scratch. They can focus on the functionalities required by the client.
- Due to the technologies on which WordPress is based, the implementation of the system can be carried out on virtually any hosting. This causes the cost of maintaining the site to be small compared to other technologies.
- SEO optimization, thanks to ready-made solutions, is very simple and can be carried out without specialized knowledge in this field. The popular Yoast SEO plugin can take care of your site’s visibility in search engines, evaluate keywords and descriptions, and even diagnose site configuration errors.
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