WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide.
Here are my top 5 reasons that I would recommend WordPress any day of the week:
- WordPress can make websites that don’t look like blogs. This is a very big misconception. Many people always assume that if you are using WordPress as a CMS that it has to be a blog. This is very untrue. For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers. This site runs WordPress and is not just a blog.
- Plugins. Plugins are extensions that add additional functions to the basic WordPress software. These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There are almost 10,000 different king of plugins! Everything from basic social media plugins to advance portfolio galleries.
- Themes make it easy to customize and update. Essentially, the WordPress theme system is a way to skin your website. You can find thousands upon thousands of premade themes online for free or sometimes a small fees. Here at Firebelly we make a lot of the custom themes from scratch. Themes allow your WordPress site to look ANY way you want.
- Installing a WordPress blog/website is VERY easy. WordPress is now known for what they call the “famous 5-minute WordPress installation.” The title says it all. Wordpress is very simple to setup and start using ASAP. You can setup a free account with WordPress.com to host your site or you can always host it on your own server.
- WordPress is really easy to use. If you have ever used Microsoft Word or something similar, you can easily use WordPress. When you update posts or pages it has a very “word-like” editor, which is called a WYSIWYG editor (What you see is what you get). This built in visual editor makes updating as simple as tying your shoe.
- BONUS REASON: It’s FREE!
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Article by: Zach Reed // Firebelly Designer (Follow me @bluetidepro)








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