Pro’s and Con’s of Using WordPress By Clare Bittourna, Codal Inc
______________________________________________________ WordPress is the most popular platform for building websites and powers millions of websites. Wordpress is very user friendly, simply put, it makes website building easy. Wordpress is great because you can customize with thousands of website templates and design that you can choose from. Each template/design comes with different options for customizing which allows the user to create very unique websites. From experience working at a wordpress development company, Highlighted in this article are some of the pro’s and con’s of using WordPress. A few WordPress Pros: 1. User Friendly CMS. WordPress is extremely simple to organize content without having a background in website management. It's easy to navigate through content and the pages on a WordPress site. 2. Plugins. A major bonus for WordPress is that there are over 50,000 mostly free and paid plugins that are available to users. These plugins help the users customize and enhance any WordPress site. 3. SEO. SEO is now more important than ever so best SEO practices follow suit. WordPress does a good job of promoting best practices and offers a wide variety of plugins to optimize content, keywords, and meta tags.
A few WordPress cons: 1. Vulnerability. One major con for Wordpress is that’s it's extremely vulnerable and easy to hack into. Someone was able to hack into our website that we built on Wordpress using our website.wp-admin and logged in. Since it is an open-source platform this makes it attractive to potential hackers.Being an open-source platform, WordPress is attractive to potential hackers. 2. Many Updates. Of course, everyone needs to install updates and its important to your WordPress site’s health. That being said, it can also be annoying because there are constant updates. 3. Customization. If you aren’t a WordPress expert and one didn’t build your website, customization can be an issue and become expensive. Mentioned above with the updates, it can cause some problems on your site if they aren’t fully functional. With any platform or website builder there will inevitably be pros or cons. Many of the cons listed in this article can be resolved with the right ux design agency or person managing your website. Looking for more insight on UX services or a wordpress theme development company? Are you wanting to develop an app or website and you need to know more information or need a web development agency chicago based? Visit Codal’s blog, or come talk to us here! We’d love to hear from you.