WordPress Website Development
Hey Everyone, Well let me introduce myself in this first blog post. My name is Tarun and I am from India. I have been developing / designing and hosting wordpress websites, blogs and woocommerce stores from a long time.
In this blog post I will discuss some interesting facts about wordpress website development. I hope this will help anyone looking to use the awesome open source content management system for their next business website / blog.
Short Intro to WordPress:
WordPress is basically a content management system that is built to make web publishing easy for even non technical and technical alike. It gives an easy to user UI (user interface) to help people edit text, images, links, buttons, videos, audios etc., with web based interface. And 25% of websites / blogs / online stores are powered by wordpress. Thats a lot ! By using WordPress now we can build a website, blog or even online shop. This is all possible with wordpress development services.
Some Interesting Facts about WordPress CMS:
Over 25% of websites and blogs are built using wordpress on internet.
WordPress is one of the most used open source content management system that is hugely popular in the software / IT industry.
Installing WordPress core system aka WP takes less than 5 mins. They call its famous 5 minutes installation.
WP is probably only content management system powered by PHP and MySQL with less memory footprint and runs on almost lowest configuration server.
One can use this CMS in two ways a) WordPress.com b) SelfHosted WordPress website.
Some of the biggest brands like NBC Sports, TED, Tech Chrunch, CNN, TIME, DowJones, UPS are using wordpress for their business
Websites / blog / stores developed and designed using WP are SEO Friendly and can rank on top of Google easily
WP is secure, scalable, fast and easy to use for website owners and business teams.
There are millions of themes, thousands of extension / plugins for wordpress, it easily integrates with your email marketing software, sales force, databases and many more day to day application with little work
Customizing the themes and plugins are affordable due to PHP programming language.
WordPress is actively maintained blogging software on internet with thousands of developers, users, community and agencies using it from last 2 decades.
From simple membership website to complex online store, wordpress can do almost anything. Even a youtube like clone site can be developed on wordpress.
With increasing need for performance, scalability and reliability various web hosting companies are now introducing fully managed wordpress web hosting.
With managed wordpress hosting owners will have peace of mind as regular security updates, database backups, wordpress performance optimization and website backups are included with web hosting.
Choosing a good theme can make a lots of difference for your website / blog.Of course wordpress is SEO friendly by default, but the code quality and light weightedness is important as well for ranking and security.
Popular frameworks like Genesis, Thesis and other frameworks are very secure and reliable.
When purchasing a premium wordpress theme you should look for developer support, code quality and get it evaluated by profession wordpress developer.
Using not more than 20 wordpress plugins is a good signal to make your webhosting work for your website. You can rely on third party services for making your database offloaded. Example: For sharing buttons, you can make use of addthis sharing tools which can eliminate 1 plugin.Similarly you can use Cloudflare CDN to make blog faster instead of using caching plugin.
If you have a business that needs custom functionality and deisgn needs to make it work for your company, you may choose a custom wordpress website development company.
It is suggested to always keep your WP installation updated and secured.You need to run weekly or monthly security audit to findout any possible vulnerabilites.
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