WordPress Platform for Website and Blogging

WORDPRESS SERIES - PART 1

INTRODUCTION:

 

In the current scenario of the Globe because of the serious impact of the Pandemic coupled with on-and-off Lockdown measures taken by almost all countries, it has become imperative that people are not able to spend their time just by sitting at home, losing their jobs, yelling out for the source of income, etc.

Therefore, it is necessary, if not for earning money, but to spend their time in a useful manner, everyone is interested in finding out some ways and means for time to pass in a productive manner.

While there are many ways to spend time like watching YouTube videos, reading Books, playing some indoor games, chatting with people, using mobile phones, spending time on Facebook/Twitter, etc. it is honestly felt that blogging is considered to be the most creative hobby besides being a remunerative art of living.

Why I say blogging seems to be one of the most effective ways of spending our time is just because of the following reasons:

 1.            Not much expensive

2.            Not involved with hurting others

3.            Induces creativity

4.            Quite remunerative

5.            Teaches mannerisms

6.            Tends to a good reading habit

7.            Improves your research power

8.            Sharing of knowledge

9.            Creating opportunities in improving their skills

10.         Tremendous growth of vocabulary within

DIFFERENT BLOGGING PLATFORMS:

 

There is a wide range of Platforms for blogging like Blogger (Blogspot), Wordpress, Wix, Weebly, Substack, Joomla, Site123, Hubpages, Contentful, Tumblr, Medium, etc.  However, I find WordPress and Blogger are the seriously considered Platforms for blogging worldwide.

Though Blogger is a traditional Platform owned by the giant Google, there are some limitations I observed in it.  I have been using this Platform for blogging and I practically face some issues in the Settings, Categorisation of Blog Posts, etc. 

However, WordPress comes to First Place where we can do wonders with the installation of various Plugins which enables easy customization of the Webpage to be aired.  Above all, almost all the Plugins are coming at free of cost and therefore, it does not affect our wallet in most of cases.

OVERVIEW OF WORDPRESS:

Features of WordPress Platform

It is a free and easy-to-use Platform, which can be used for Blogging and also to launch a Website for creating a Personal portfolio or improving the Business environment.  It is an open source Content Management System, which uses PHP and MySQL

A Survey conducted all over the world depicts that almost 40% of the top one Billion websites and has a huge market share of 64% of all websites using various Content Management Systems.

 

FEATURES OF WORDPRESS PLATFORM:

 

• ·        WordPress has a proven record with overwhelming response all over the world.
• ·        It is considered to be one of the Highly Trusted Platforms by Large and Small players.
• ·        WordPress has a good and successful track record of more a decade.
• ·        It does not require any Coding Knowledge and even a layman with basic usage of the Internet will be able to do wonders and this is what is expected of by everyone.  That is, with a few efforts, one can achieve his goal to reach the audience.
• ·        It has a simple Interface that can be handled by anyone with basic skills.
• ·        It is very easy to customize.
• ·     WordPress comes with quite a number of Category-wise Themes at free of cost.  This again saves you exchequer.
• ·     No induction training is required.  Just visit the official website of WordPress.com or WordPress.org, where abundant support is available.
• ·        WordPress can be downloaded and installed for Windows PCs as well as Mac OS.
• ·        WordPress renders easy Customization/Optimization with added free Plugins.
• ·        It has a library of more than fifty thousand free, open-source Plugins and Themes and hundreds of core contributors each release cycle.
• ·        WordPress can be used in Multi-sites using Multisite Network option.