Five Reasons Why You Should Be Using WordPress

by Chris Pugh on June 1, 2009

Moleskine WordPress Notebook

WordPress is the most popular web blogging software because it provides ease of use. WordPress is suitable for just about anybody – from the absolute novice to the advanced programmer.  WordPress has a feature-rich interface, a rich text editor with advanced multimedia support and is endlessly expandable. WordPress’s community distributes a large number of modules for almost any popular website feature, is Open Source and is updated regularly.  In a nut-shell, WordPress is free to install, endlessly expandable with thousands of themes and plugins, has a large support community is easy to use.

The five reasons why you should be using WordPress are:

  1. WordPress is Free (as in beer).
  2. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of free themes available.
  3. Just like themes, there are literally thousands of plugins available.
  4. WordPress is Open Source and has a large support community behind it.
  5. WordPress is simple and easy to use once properly installed and configured.

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