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Why use WordPress?

There are a lot of reasons why Web Design WorkPlace builds WordPress websites instead of using the old traditional HTML designs of the past. The biggest reason is that Google loves WordPress, and that’s easy to prove.  We are firm believers that no matter how beautiful a website is, if it doesn’t rank well on Google, the business value is entirely questionable. Here is list that I can rattle off from the top of my head on why we use WordPress instead of traditional HTML.

Advantages of WordPress Websites over traditional HTML websites:

1. Google praises WordPress. Well known Google evangelist and Anti-Spam Manager Matt Cutts has made numerous favorable comments about WordPress for a few years and he uses WordPress instead of Google Blogger for his own personal blog. In June 2009 at the San Francisco WordPress “WordCamp” Matt Cutts said [if you use WordPress] “you have all made a fantastic choice”.
2. WordPress sites have many SEO features built in so they work automatically.
3. Adding new pages and content to a WP site is as easy as adding a new blog post. New content keeps search engine spiders on the site more frequently. Content is King and WordPress makes it easy to build a content rich website.
4. Admins can add content to a WP site from an iPhone or any hand held device.
5. Adding content does not require any programming knowledge whatsoever.
6. Since WP is built on an Open Source platform, the top developers in the world can access the core software components to fix problems and make upgrades. The old saying “two heads are better than one” was never more evident.
7. It’s FREE
8. WordPress is incredibly cross-browser compliant. While it takes a long time to build and fix cross-browser compatibility problems with HTML, most of that work is already done for us by the WordPress development team.
9. Internal page linking and cross-linking with WP sites is automatic in many cases and easy to setup in others. In traditional HTML sites, internal linking usually means more hard coding with Dreamweaver.
10. WordPress sites are insanely configurable. It’s easy to make a WordPress blog look like a traditional website with a unique artistic style all it’s own.
11. WP sites are built around a CMS database so they take advantage of many content management system advantages natively that are hard to implement with traditional HTML sites.
12. There are thousands of freeware “Plugins” that are software modules designed to take care of situations that would require tons of programming time to implement on a regular HTML site.
13. Readers can make comments to new content and Admins can choose to approve or delete these comments or they can turn the comment feature completely off.
14. The Control Panel can be updated instantly to allow guest writers or alternate admins to join and participate in the site management.
15. The core programming framework and all the plugins can be automatically updated from a single Dashboard. Out of date software is clearly indicated from the Dashboard.
16. The “Themes” concept allows the entire look of the website to be changed in a single click without any additional programming
17. New Plugins can be located, evaluated, and automatically installed from the Dashboard using search commands.
18. New security issues for WordPress sites are resolved frequently and patches are made available to emerging threats immediately.
19. There are dozens of Premium WordPress Theme developers with large active communities.
20. While traditional HTML sites can be nearly impossible to fix when the original programmer is not available for future changes, WordPress sites built by one developer can be fixed or updated easily by another developer. The content is kept in a MySQL database, so it’s largely independent from the core WordPress programming structure.
21. User friendly. The world wide user community is active and vocal keeping every feature as easy to use as possible.
22. Accessibility. There is no other website platform in the world that is more user accessible than WordPress. People will various levels of viewing capabilities can use WordPress sites without additional programming modifications.
23. Easy to install. Most hosting packages have a feature to do a “1 click WordPress install”. Even using the traditional install method takes about 20 minutes. There are countless resources to help with WordPress installs.