WHY CHOOSE WORDPRESS AS A BLOGGING PLATFORM?

There are many blogging platforms that can be used through your web hosting company to get content onto your site quickly and efficiently.  That said, there really is only one best choice and that is WordPress.  While their competitors may try to steer you away from WordPress, it truly is the best of the best when it comes to blogging and website creation.  These are the main reasons why:

Free and Open Source

Open source software means that the source code or the actual programming is available for everyone to use.  This allows developers of plug-ins to have free access to the code of the program so they can create an add-on easily.

Large software firms typically charge quite a bit of money and require extensive legal documents before allowing anyone outside of their company to see the source code.  These costs, legal documents and even pre approval process for creating add-ons makes it prohibitive to small coding teams.  By allowing anyone the ability to access the source code easily, a small upstart company or individual can craft a plug in that addresses a need.  That need may be something tiny that most people won’t even want or need or it could be something that everyone ends up using.

Open source software also means that the software and the plug-ins are free to the end user.  WordPress offers a GPL or General Public License for use that means they won’t charge and the plug-in creators cannot charge either.  The support for WordPress comes from the coding community itself as well as donations from that community.

Easy to Use

Setting up and using WordPress is easy.  The software is designed to be a full blown end user web based software application.  What this means is that if you can use the basic functions of a word processing program, you should be able to easily use WordPress.  Once you have created a theme for your site, adding content is simple.  You just have to click “Write a New Post,” add your content and then click publish.  The text editing can be done within WordPress, including adding formatting and multiple fonts or you can simply copy and paste from your word processing program to WordPress in your browser.

Completely Customizable

Through the use of theme’s, a user can setup their blog to look like a basic blog or a full-featured website.  You are allowed to have columns for separate content aside from your blog posts and can have backgrounds, foregrounds.  WordPress supports Java scripting, allowing your blog site to have a clean, professional look.  This is all easily setup through WordPress once it is installed and active on your web server.

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