{"id":374,"date":"2016-09-29T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastwebhost.in\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T09:00:59","slug":"what-is-wordpress-and-why-is-wordpress-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastwebhost.in\/blog\/what-is-wordpress-and-why-is-wordpress-free\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordPress and Why is WordPress free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We will discuss few reasons why to use WordPress , what is WordPress, how easy it is to use and why is it free?<\/p>\n

What is WordPress ?<\/h4>\n

WordPress is just not a blogging software, it evolved throughout the years into a versatile content management system CMS and it’s most known fact about it. While you can use WordPress for simple blogs to the enterprise level websites, since enterprises tend to deal with high-end web solutions that involve a large volume of content, high traffic and scalability issues, various security constraints and other business-oriented requirements.<\/p>\n

Few questions may strike your mind. Why is it so popular? Why do people prefer it so much? People have so many options, but why every fourth website created is on WordPress? <\/p>\n

Does it have any limitations that may not be aware of ? And most importantly, it is good enough to be your final choice? So, let’s find out the answer for all the above. <\/p>\n

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Why WordPress ?<\/h4>\n

1. WordPress is free and open source<\/h5>\n

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WordPress is an open source software – free to use, edit and redistribute. That’s why you can easily find its original source codes publicly available.<\/p>\n

WordPress software is completely free and comes with unlimited validity. You can download it from its official website.<\/p>\n

2. WordPress is 99% SEO friendly<\/h5>\n

The more parameters you fulfil, the better your website ranks in search results.<\/p>\n

Good news is that WordPress takes all the SEO responsibilities that a CMS is suppose to have.<\/p>\n

And much better, there are various SEO plugins available to help improve search engine visibility of your WP website.<\/p>\n

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Fast loading speed<\/h6>\n

The loading speed of a website is also influenced by your CMS. That is the reason  Wordpress already optimized for good speed.<\/p>\n

Image Optimization<\/h6>\n

Adding title & tags in images takes no time. So you don’t find a hard time to optimize your images for good ranking of your post\/page.<\/p>\n

Social Media Integration<\/h6>\n

Search engines give importance to websites which get good traffic from social networking sites. That is why it supports social media integration.<\/p>\n

3. WordPress is easy to use and customize<\/h5>\n

WordPress, can be installed with a single click.<\/p>\n

Once installation completes, you can start creating, publish blogs and make custom configuration without any coding.<\/p>\n

It’s possible to customize colours,design, and even features of a WordPress theme.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t matter you are a developer or not. Customizing your website through coding is not mandatory.<\/p>\n

The dashboard is a quite user-friendly simple interface makes it possible to customize most of the elements of your website in an easy manner.<\/p>\n

WordPress is a secure enough<\/h5>\n

WordPress has a high-security standard, But since 25% of websites on the internet are built on it, Hackers continuously try to find loopholes in WordPress to get into sites.<\/p>\n

But not to worry. Regular updates provided by WordPress strongly protects you from this vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

Regularly updating your wordpress version is quite effective to fight at this point.<\/p>\n

By following some general security methods for WordPress. Your website can be made safe.<\/p>\n