Manage the content of your website easily yourself.
Having full control over your website content yourself has many benefits:
- Saves on developer costs.
- Keeping your content up to date.
- Managing an e-commerce store and responding to orders quickly.
- Control of your SEO.
Why we use WordPress as a website content management system.
Back in 2010 we developed a website that require a content management system (CMS) to allow them to manage their content with ease. We developed the CMS ourselves and took a considerable amount of development time and cost.
A few years later as it became a fully developed and stable CMS, we were able to use the WordPress platform, this saved us a huge amount of development time and saved on their budget!
WordPress started as a Blogging platform but has now developed in to a full CMS used by almost 50% of all commercial websites.
What is WordPress CMS?
WordPress is one of the most popular website builders and content management systems (CMS) in the world. It is used by over 40% of all websites, including some of the biggest names on the internet, such as The New York Times, BBC America, Microsoft News and The White House.
Other reasons to choose WordPress
WordPress is very SEO-friendly, meaning that websites built with WordPress are more likely to rank well in search engine results pages (SERPs). This is important because it can help you to attract more visitors to your website.
Here are some of the key benefits of using WordPress:
- Flexibility: WordPress is a highly flexible platform that can be used to create a wide variety of websites, from simple blogs to complex e-commerce stores.
- Power: WordPress is a powerful CMS that can handle a large amount of traffic and content.
- Ease of use: WordPress is relatively easy to use, even for beginners.
- SEO-friendly: WordPress is very SEO-friendly, meaning that websites built with WordPress are more likely to rank well in search engine results pages (SERPs).
How does WordPress work?
Plugins
“Plugins” are like “Apps” on your smart device.
They are available, just like on Google Playstore and Apple AppStore from the WordPress Plugins Market and carry out various tasks, such as a Contact Form, SEO software, image galleries etc.
This makes developing a website a lot quicker as each element does not have to be coded from scratch, saving time and cost.
Plugins generally are available as a free version with the option to purchase a feature rich “premium” version if required.
Customising Plugins: There are times when a suitable plugin is either not available or doesn’t fit the exact task, we therefore code our own.
Themes
“Themes” provides the layout and general look of the site. We customise the theme to reflect your brand identity, mission and purpose.
Content Editor
Content Builder/Editors: Using the built-in editor or installing a preferred system, the editor allows you to edit content by formatting text, inserting images/documents etc in a similar way as writing a Word Document.
