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WordPress is a widely used Content Management System (CMS) currently. You will find most blogs over the Internet which is created on WordPress. It is a wrong perception that WordPress is only meant for blogging. In fact, it could be used to create and manage a number of websites for online shopping, gaming, various businesses and many others.
Let’s have a look at some of the coolest features of WordPress:
Friends with SEO
WordPress is a delight for the search engines. The sites created on this platform are indexed much better by major search engines. Also, there are various plugins available on WordPress and also SEO friendly themes for improving your performance on search engines
Friendly with Social Media
There are numerous social media plugins created only for WordPress. You could use these plugins to automatically post your content on various social networking websites. Thus, it saves your time from manually distributing the posts on various sites. Also, we get the social sharing and profile plugins which makes the task easier.
It’s Free
It is open source software and is free to download and install. It saves you from spending money on designers, coding and various developers. You may be charged for each page created for your website. But, it’s all free with WordPress. Also, it offers free updates.
New Improved Spam and Security Features
One of the best plugin for WordPress is the Akismet which can block spam comments. It is well coded and is high in security. In addition to Akismet, there are other plugins available as well to ensure security for your site.
CMS enabled for Multi Users
With the use of some plugins, an administrator could assign the users to be authors, editors, subscribers, contributors and various others roles. The administrator is the top-most authority for the site and it is up to him to accept or reject a particular post.
Easily Accessible On Mobile
It is easy to make a WordPress site compatible on mobile phones and tablets. There are various themes available free of cost and also some which cost a nominal amount. These themes are specially designed for your mobile devices. There are various plugins available to make yours a mobile friendly web-site.
Schedule and Publish Posts Automatically
You can schedule when you would like to post a particular content. This feature comes handy when you have created a lot of posts and simply schedule when each post should be published. This is possible with a WordPress account from WordPress.com
There are no second thoughts on the fact that WordPress has slowly and steadily transformed into a fully-featured Content Management System (CMS) from mere blogging software. It is by far, the most user-friendly tool as compared to any other systems.