There are numerous content
management systems among which WordPress is the most viral, simple and easy to
learn and implement. The cost and benefit analysis of WordPress development services with other content management systems revealed that the Mainor
reason for WordPress holding maximum market share is its simplicity. Every novice
could use it with no coding knowledge and develop its website.
The developers use it in their
own way and extend its features to next level as per the trending demands and
availability of its depending as well as dependent stuff. Many people and
companies use WordPress for their website development. For this purpose, WordPress
development services are offered by almost all the software companies.
WordPress Comparison
If WordPress is compared to other
CMS, the edge it enjoys is its versatility, incredibly designed themes,
creative look and innovative features. WordPress is extending its features
towards ecommerce and is providing the features of payment plugins for creating
online shopping cart. Same ecommerce facility is available with Drupal,
Prestashop and Zend cart as well but they lag in simplicity and hence need a developer
for site configuration.
Plugins
WordPress provides various
plugins and short codes which could be used during website development. Plugins
could be developed on custom basis. WordPress.org provides a lot of free
plugins for various purposes. Some key plugins include Contact Form 7, News Letter
subscriber, w3 Total Cache and many others. Plugins extend the functionality
and lets you to fully customize your website.
Themes
One key element of this CMS
framework is unlimited variety of free and premium themes. These themes are
designed for particular web layout like blog, photography, news, magazine,
fashion, article and others. The drag and drop facility via page builder and
visual composer has made it even more easy for anyone to configure and start
playing around.
Features
This CMS has great many features including
posts, widgets, categories, taxonomies, menus, static front page and others.
All these are different ways for content positioning and presentation. Posts
help in blog creation, widgets make quick access easy and categories help to
sort the posts with specific types. All the features jumble up to make an
efficient CMS.
Social Media
No website is compete without
social media integration. For this purpose various social media plugins are
available for example bbPress, Mashshare etc. these bring more traffic to the
website and keep it alive. Now a days, an Instagram feed plugin is trending
which lets user to showcase his work in pictorial form and get benefit.
