This article includes the main Characteristics of WordPress, but are more. WordPress is the most popular CMS. WP is easy to learn to use and to maintain, with a lot of FREE plugins, Themes, and very big Community support.
The Most Important Characteristics of WordPress are :
It is FREE
Joomla & Drupal are also FREE.
WP is Popular
— more than 40% of Web
It is very easy to learn
— Easy to learn
It is very easy to use
— Easy to use
It is Secure
— Secure (third party plugins have bugs)
It needs Cache Plugins
— Needs Cache plugins
Joomla & Drupal includes Cache functionality
Written in PHP
— written in PHP, HTML, CSS, JS
Joomla & Drupal are also written in PHP
it uses its own Framework
— has its own framework
Templates are using mainly Bootstrap
— templates using Bootstrap or other Frameworks of CSS
New editor Gutenberg
— new editor + Use React JS
Blocks the Javascript Library React JS
— Pages and Articles are using Blocks written in ReactJS
It has a lot of plugins & Themes free and paid
— it has a lot of free Plugins & Templates
Joomla has less and Drupal has also more than Joomla
It uses Child Themes
— it uses Child Themes for local template customization (so that to not overwrite the local modifications from the Theme update)
It uses an SEO customizer
— it uses permalinks for SEO optimization + plugins
It is light
– –it is light (fast)
We can optimize and secure by .htaccess and plugins
— it is needed for SEO, Optimization & Security to edit .htaccess
some more Characteristics are:
A lot of sites have a Security problem
—because of not updating or bad plugins are not secure
— It has more than 80% of sites hacked every year (not updated sites and bad plugins)
big Community support
— big community support
— it has many articles, forums, online free and paid tutorials
It is mobile-friendly
— mobile-friendly
It has a very popular e-commerce solution
Using WordPress you can create
- any app developing your own plugins
- Blogs were the 1st use of WordPress, before to became a CMS
- Magazines / News sites
- e-shops with the FREE WooCommerce plugin or other Paid
- social communities, by using the Free BuddyPress plugin (or another Paid) and a Pro Theme
- Learning Management Systems (LMS or Online Schools)
- apps that are needed booking (like Dentist Office)
- Bridge with WordPress at the front and Moodle LMS at back
- Sites for Marketing promotions
- Authors and Writers Sites
- Real Estate Sites
- Doctors, Lawyers, and more sites
- Sites like Amazon, Quora, e.t.c.
- Job sites
- and many more
WordPress is the best FREE blog platform. If you know how to code you can use it to write many apps. It is relatively easy and many NOT Web / IT educated people use WP to create sites.
