This document outlines 10 reasons why WordPress is becoming a favorite content management system for websites. It notes that WordPress powers around 22% of new websites and 15% of the top websites in the world. Some of the key reasons it lists for its popularity include that WordPress is easy to update, has a large community for free help and support, can grow with a business's needs through plugins and themes, is free to use, and allows for easy design changes.

1. 10 Reasons Why WordPress
is Becoming a Favorite CMS
for Websites
Contents:
Introduction Page 1
WordPress.com Vs WordPress.org Page 1
Reasons to Choose Wordpress for Websites Page 2

2. Introduction
Make no mistake, WordPress is a widely used platform with 22% of all new
websites being setup on the platform, with around 15% of the world’s top websites
running on WordPress.
WordPress.com Vs WordPress.org
When people start to look in to WordPress as a platform for their business website
or blog, some confusion does happen around the two types of WordPress site.
WordPress.org allows you to easily get hold of the WordPress software and install
and set it up on your own hosting.
We look into top 10 reasons why Wordpress is increasingly becoming more
favourite among corporate and small business owners as:
1: Easy To Update
Our number one favourite thing about WordPress is how easy it is to use. The
whole point of a CMS is that you don’t need to know how to code websites. Once
your WordPress site is set up, most of what you will be doing is simply updating
the content and this can be done in a few clicks.
As WordPress started as a blogging platform it is geared towards being very easy
to update.
2: Get Help For Free
As WordPress is used by so many people around the world there are loads of
resources available for free online for you to learn how to use it or do something
specific. Google is your friend here and with a few carefully crafted searches
you’ll find the solution to your problem in no time.
3: Grow with Your Business
WordPress is highly expandable. In theory you can have an infinite number of
pages, posts and more on your site. If you want to add forms so that you can
capture information from visitors, you can do that. If you want to start selling

3. products online, you can do that too. Whatever you want to do with your
business’s website, WordPress will be able to handle it.
4: Add Special Functions in a Few Clicks
If your business has a particular need for something that needs doing on your
website, it’s very likely that a WordPress plugin exists already to do that. Plugins
are great as they enable you to add functions to your site with just a few clicks.
Want to add a contact form? There are lots of plugins for that. How about an event
management system? A survey? A PayPal button? You can do it all in minutes with
Plugins.
5: An Amazing User Community
As WordPress is open source, it has an amazing user community. Aside from
people sharing, for free, tips, trick and tutorials on how to get the most from
WordPress, there are thousands of people round the world working day and night
to make it better and better. Coding new plugins, designing new themes and
developing new features, WordPress gets better and more powerful each day.
6: Really Simple Social Media Integration
You DO need your social media presences linked on your website. And you need a
really easy way for people to share your website via these platforms. Fortunately,
WordPress makes that easy with a massive choice of plugins, including the
Official WordPress Jetpack plugin, to add this kind of functionality to your site in
seconds.
7: It’s Free
While there are premium (paid) plugins, themes and more, WordPress is open
source and therefore free for you to use for your commercial endeavours. When
you hire a web designer you are paying them to set up and optimize WordPress for
you, NOT for the software itself which saves you a significant amount of money.
8: Ever Evolving
WordPress is constantly being updated. Whether its new functionality, enhanced
security or better design it never stands still. The core development team of

4. WordPress focuses on making it simple to use and beautiful, all while adhering to
the latest standards in how websites can be built. This means that as you business
grows, WordPress is growing with you.
9: Accept Payments Online
Increasingly businesses need to be able to accept payments online. If and when the
time comes for your business to do this, WordPress can handle that no problem.
10: Change Your Design Easily
The look and feel of a WordPress site (it’s design) is determined by it’s theme.
Themes are easily swapped and changed, and there are thousands of free themes to
get you going.