Why WordPress? Deep dive 10 Great Reasons and more
1. WordPress is FREE and Open Source
2. Simple and EASY to learn
3. WordPress can make any TYPE of Websites
4. WordPress is the BEST Blogging platform
5. WordPress supports all MEDIA formats
6. Optimize your WordPress sites with SEO
7. WordPress is SAFE and SECURE
8. WordPress is EASY to maintain
9. You can CUSTOMIZE WordPress
10. YOU are in control of your WordPress website
Interested in finding out which blogging platform to use? There are many options.
Right away we can give you many blogging platforms:
-blogger.com
-ghost.org
-drupal.org
-joomla.org
-medium.com
-squarespace.com
-tumblr.com
-weebly.com
-wix.com
-wordpress.com
If you include micro-blogging platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Plurk, Reddit, Twister and etc. there will be hundreds of blogging platforms.
There are two WordPress; WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
WordPress.com is a hosted website for your blogs and it is free to sign up. The free WordPress.com platform is limited to 3 GB of storage. After that, you need to upgrade to a paid plan.
On a free WordPress.com, you will see ads on your blogs and your sites will come with subdomain names like:
https://yourfirstblog.wordpress.com instead of your custom domain name https://yourblog.com.
There are other limitations on the WordPress.com platform. With the WordPress.com platform, monetization of your blogs is somewhat limited compared to using the WordPress.org software.
WordPress.org is where you can download the WordPress software and host your blogs on web hosting companies. We call that self-hosted WordPress blogs.
Many hosting companies allow you to install WordPress software with a few clicks. Hosting companies like Bluehost will have WordPress pre-installed and ready to go when you sign up for their hosting services.
Go for the self-hosted WordPress because that will allow you to customize your blogs and give you more options to make money.
Among the hundreds of blogging platforms, why are we deciding on using the WordPress platform?
Here are our top 10 great reasons why we use WordPress.
1. WordPress is FREE and Open Source
The WordPress program itself is free for every blogger. Not only is the program free, it is open source, supported by very large communities.
Head over to the wordpress.org website, you will see there is a free download link, Get WordPress, on the top right. Wait, don’t load the program.
If you create your blogs on your computer device, you will need to upload those blogs up to the servers anyway.
A better solution is to install the free WordPress program on your hosting servers and create your blogs online. This will save the extra step of creating the blogs on your computer device and uploading your blogs to your hosting servers.
Most hosting companies have instructions and allow you to install the free WordPress program through a few simple steps.
Don’t worry about all these installation steps, just use Bluehost. With Bluehost, you get a free domain and WordPress is already pre-installed on your server ready for you to start your blogs.
2. Simple and EASY to learn
Since you are reading this article online, you already have the basic skills to blog with WordPress.
The world’s youngest blogger is 6 years old English boy in 2014. Read this interview. This article showed a 107 years Swedish lady from Kristianstad was into blogging. Now she would be 109.
WordPress is the most flexible yet powerful blogging platform. Yet it is quite simple and easy for beginners to use.
After you log in to your WordPress dashboard, you will see options like below. Like using any word processing program, you will find the menu options on top and left.
In a few minutes, you will follow how the interface works.