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WordPress is the leading CMS for creating customizable, easy-to-maintain websites, blogs, and e-commerce sites. It’s free and open-source, written in the PHP programming language, and has excellent built-in SEO.
WordPress’ popularity and functionality hinge on two main features. First, it has a very intuitive administrative dashboard. From there, you can maintain, update, and publish new content with multiple admin accounts. The dashboard interface can be edited as well, so you can add in new custom fields for total control over your content. The key to the dashboard is that it lets anyone update a website without “breaking” anything or disrupting the design—no coding experience required.
Second, and central to WordPress’ customization capabilities, is WordPress Themes. Our developers can make your WordPress site look any way you want, and can customize it with editable templates, premium themes, theme frameworks, and custom widgets and plugins. And, because WordPress themes are kept in a separate file from all of the content (which is in a database), they can be updated easily, whenever you want, without disrupting a site or affecting any content. Also, themes can be used on multiple websites—just by linking them to the style sheet.
Call Web Design Expert James Greenier today at 1-800-877-2776.
WordPress Features & Functionality
Beyond themes, WordPress offers more ways to customize and extend your site’s functionality with plugins. There are thousands of plugins—many free—that are designed to make things easier for developers on the back end and to improve user experience. These software modules can be easily installed into your site or written from scratch. Be careful not to have too many plugins, or to forget to update plugins, as this could cause security vulnerabilities or performance issues.
Use plugins to:
- Add forms, like the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin
- Add e-commerce and payment functionality
- Protect your site’s content with backup assistant plugins
- Enhance security and block your site from spam
- Optimize your site for search engines with SEO plugins
- Improve your site’s speed and load times with cache plugins
- Make it easy for users to like and share your content with their networks with social sharing plugins
- Track your site’s monetization efforts with advertising and affiliate program plugins
WordPress Widgets
Widgets are PHP objects that add content and features to the sidebar of your WordPress theme. They pipe in content from other sites (e.g., a Twitter feed), call out contact forms, or add navigational features. No coding experience is needed—just drag and drop them within the dashboard.
Some widgets offer customization and can be bundled with plugins. Default WordPress widgets include categories, tags, navigation, search functions, and RSS feeds.
Call Web Design Expert James Greenier today at 1-800-877-2776.
