Wordpress CMS

Why Wordpress?

Having a blog can prove beneficial to business, as you will consistently be providing fresh content for potential customers. It shows that how serious you are about your business. It create a trust point in your customers.

As it has features like integrated link management, a search engine friendly, clean permalink structure, support of tagging post and article and automatic filter that provide for proper formatting of text in articles. So if you are in need of website with blog, and a nice CMS, wordpress may be your best bet.

Wordpress Pros

Wordpress is free to use, however, that does not mean developers will install and integrate the CMS for free but it will surely cut down the cost of development. WordPress is also very easy to access. The person accessing wordpress can send mails, can use Facebook, MS Word. From WordPress admin you can do whatever change you want to do. Everything comes on screen which you can access. No need to depend on webmasters in case of any error. Multiple user access is available with WordPress. So anyone can access it from anywhere. WordPress is search engine friendly. So more chances are there to increase the traffic into your website and much more.

Wordpress Cons

Since WordPress limits the content types to posts or pages, it’s not very good at organizing large amounts of content, even for a site that has a portfolio of past projects. You can organize all the content in WordPress by categories and tags, which can help people find it, but at its core, it only has those 2 content types and uses the same display for each one: a teaser with the title and paragraph.

If you want to have common features like a shopping cart across all of your blogs, you cannot do this easily in WordPress; and WPMU (multi-user) in general is not as user friendly for the novice to install and maintain, although it is improving rapidly lately.

Wordpress Performance

What we would do to increase a site running on Wordpress is since the pages are served dynamically every page load in Wordpress results in a Mysql Query, as stated before the WP-Cache plugin helps to reduce these queries but it’s also important to make sure you have the Query Cache optimised for maximum performance. The PHP Compiler cache saves scripts in their compiled format on the server so that they’re not getting recompiled every time you call them from Wordpress. Optimising your Mysql Database can have a huge performance on your load times and load on the server, especially if you have a big database. Disable any plugins that you currently don’t utilise in the plugins section of wordpress.

Bottomline

The main reason why we would use WordPress as our CMS of choice, is that it’s easy to teach clients how to use it. If someone asks you to build them a site using a CMS, they don’t want to have to spend weeks learning how to add pages, upload images and edit their content.

With WordPress, it’s almost self-explanatory, and if you utilise some of the features I mentioned above, you can make WordPress into a fool-proof content management system.

After all, it's all about choosing the right tool for the job. WordPress is great for small business websites. Other CMS like Joomla or Drupal are also great for bigger websites, although it does not seem just as easy to skin as it is with WordPress. It's critical to define the goal for your site and know how it will transform along with business growth and scalability