Why Get Into WordPress Development: Explained

by Vipe Team in WordPress Development; Published on 18.03.2021

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We know, we know. We’re knee-deep in WordPress and have put in the hours and the years to become a reputable WordPress agency for development; we’ve given you the tips and the trends – and now we’re asking, why get into it?

Well, WordPress started out like so many websites back then – a blogging platform like Blogger, or Live Journal, or any of those other services that still function as just a place to blog on. Today, WordPress is a complete CMS, an instrument for great website development – a means to an end. If tomorrow a better tool was created, we would unreservedly recommend it instead.

So, this time, regardless of whether you’re a WordPress veteran who already knows or a novice who finds themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information available on WordPress, we thought we could share a few reasons why WordPress development just makes sense:

Free and Open Source

WordPress is available for free to install, use, or customize to your liking. It is also open-source, and together these factors have contributed to its insane market share: 40.5% of all websites on the Internet! This, of course, also includes a yearly growth of between 10-20% every year since 2011. Heck, just the e-commerce plugin for WordPress – WooCommerce – runs 7% of all e-commerce websites and 25% of the top 1 million websites by traffic.

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I think we’ve made our point – no matter what kind of website you’re in the market for, personal, commercial, social – WordPress has you covered, and for free! Do remember, though, that you’ll need to purchase a hosting plan and a domain if you intend to get serious with your website. And if you still don’t feel up to it, you can hire a WordPress agency for development needs who can help with the process!

A Plethora of Plugins

While it’s not quite as plug-and-play as a modern website builder, WordPress is still hands-down the effortless platform to use that is also the most powerful. A wide selection of free website themes becomes available to you when you decide to take the WordPress dive, and you can pick just the right one with the right features. Customize the website to your liking with colors, images, your logo, and so many more settings and options.

Go for Premium themes, and you can broaden your pool of choices even more. If you’ve already hired an agency, they even make custom themes for you!

SEO Loves WordPress

The quality of WordPress code is enhanced by its capability for semantic markup and compliance with unform coding standards. For this reason, search engines consistently rank WordPress websites above other websites.
If you’d like to learn more about how SEO can be used with your WordPress website, feel free to explore our blog.

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Media Compatibility

WordPress did begin life as a blogging platform, and blogs tend to be a text-heavy medium. However, modern blogging platforms let you use all sorts of media in your website, and WordPress lets you do a lot more. You can upload images, audio, and video, and with the oEmbed API, you can link from any social media service – Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, you name it – all by just copying and pasting in the URL in WordPress!

Of course, when you avail of the services of a WordPress agency for development, you can do so much more than we can describe here!

Secure and Safe

The Internet has not been a safe place for a long time; every other month you hear about some kind of data being compromised or privacy concerns or user data breaches. Thankfully, WordPress and its built-in security focus are your best bets when it comes to securing your online presence – just ask any of the established businesses who started their journey with WordPress and continue to rely on it today.

To sum up, there are more reasons here than you realistically need for you to take that first step into WordPress. You’d be joining the largest website community and using the most popular CMS on the Internet. And if all of that boggles your mind, you can hit us, developers, up at Vipe Studio, your friendly neighborhood WordPress agency for development, and we’ll support you at every step, the way we have been since 2009!

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