7 Ways WordPress Benefits You As Your Website Platform

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WordPress is a phenomenally useful technology. Here’s 7 ways you benefit from using WordPress as your choice of website technology:

1. WordPress is very good at serializing content by time. When you need to post articles or write for the public, WordPress makes it absurdly simple.
2. WordPress has excellent maintenance and security tools, keeping up with your WP installation on a daily or weekly basis should not take more than a few minutes at a time.
3. WordPress rocks for providing an easily accessible publishing platform, for both content producers and content consumers. The WordPress system is easy to master, and once mastered, it’s very rare to find any “big surprises.” WordPress is unlikely to astonish you in unpleasant ways, that is, the WordPress crew has mastered The Principle Of Least Astonishment. Some of the problems WP solves are not easy, and they have done as good a job as any software around.
4. WP is very easy to hack (in the good way), so simple customization is easy.
5. WP is very extensible: the plugin API is well-documented and works well, so there is a large and growing ecosystem for plugins.
6. Installation is also very easy, and that’s a pretty big deal. Anecdote Alert: I dropped Drupal when my Drupal 6 installation wouldn’t work running from localhost… and one of the Drupal core developers who was literally sitting two chairs away from me at Hat Factory was neither interested in looking at the problem or fixing it. He’s a great guy overall, but I knew right then that I wasn’t in Drupal’s customer base: didn’t have the technical expertise to run it correctly, and didn’t have the interest in learning it.
7. Lot’s of built-in tools. For the most part, you won’t need to use an FTP much after installing WordPress. And that’s a big time saver!

Here’s a great overview of WordPress structure written by Website In A Weekend colleague Sean. While this is technical, it just proves how well WordPress is engineered: Sean is not a programmer!

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