Is WordPress Right for You?

WordPress is the platform of choice for millions of sites worldwide. From Fortune 500 companies like Ford and Chevy Volt, news organizations such as CBS New York and Reuters, and educational institutions like Harvard Law, Oregon State University and Boston University, using WordPress as a content management system to celebrity and small business customer service blogs, WordPress helps them get the high quality, reliability and flexibility required for today’s websites.

But how will it help you?

Here are some features that may help you decide whether or not WordPress will work for you.

• First off, WordPress is flexible, extensible, and free for the taking. With thousands of free plugins and themes and a supportive community, the uses you find for WordPress is limited only by your imagination. Really! It can do just about anything.
• Because the core features of WordPress already exist in the downloaded software, the development cost is often lower than for either static sites or custom content management systems.
• Once set up, it’s easy to upgrade, expand, and self-manage your site as needed. If you’ve edited in any word processor, the built-in WordPress editor will be a breeze to use.
• Given that you’re less reliant on your web developer to make content changes to your site, overall maintenance costs can be much lower.
• The clean typography of WordPress gives a good first impression to your site visitors, and we know how important that is.
• It’s built using standards compliant code, optimized to be search engine friendly. You may or may not care or think about the code that runs your website, but modern web browsers and mobile devices notice! You’ll want to be found and, once found, you’ll want to look good.

Already using WordPress?

If you’ve been using WordPress a while, what made you decide to choose it? And if you’re on the fence about whether or not to go with it, I’d be interested to hear why. Just leave a comment below.