What is a WordPress
WordPress is the content management system (CMS) we use for the our websites we design and develop, a CMS is basically the software that lets a website owner uses to manage what the people visit their website see.
Think of it like Facebook, but for your website with more options and features. For example, when you log into your Facebook account and publish a post, people who follow your Facebook account will see the new post. When you change your cover image for your website, people who follow your Facebook page will see the new image.
Similarly, when you login to your website, you can add a new post, change the image of your homepage and visitors to your site will be able to see these changes. All of these features are made available by WordPress.
Why do we use WordPress
1. Easy to use
WordPress is an intuitive and straight forward CMS for non developers to get a hang of. You will be able to publish new blog posts, update time tables for your gym, update instructor profiles, change images and most other simple updates to your website without a single line of code.
For the more complicated parts that may require some development work, because of its popularity, there are plenty of skilled freelancers available, which leads to reason number 3.
2. Easy to find affordable developers for WordPress
WordPress powers over 53% of the most popular websites in the world. This means there is plenty of developers with experience and the skills required to help you out if you ever get stuck.
Because of the popularity among small and medium sized business who often do not have the resources to have their own coding department, there are plenty of services that offer 24/7 technical support at affordable rates, for example WP Maintain, who offer 1 hour of development time per month and usual maintenance of WordPress.
Of course, if you go with Tapout Digital, all of these additional services are included in the full service price for one year.
PHP/MYSQL
WordPress relies on two very popular coding languages PHP and MySQL, this ensures WordPress is built using secure coding languages which are trusted by millions of websites around the world and also means finding a experienced developer for your website is straight forward.
Security
WordPress is trusted by over a quarter of the websites on the internet. As long as your website is kept up to date with the latest updates and plugins and themes are vetted before they are added to your website, the security risks should be minimised.
Following the security hardening advice from WordPress.org will help ensure your website is safe and secure.
Tapout Digital follows all safety standards and is why we include maintenance of your website in the cost of our plans.
Quality and stability
WordPress is simple, affordable solution for website development and meets the highest standards of some of the biggest websites around. Some websites that use WordPress include:
Bloomerg Professional
The Star Wars Blog
The Playstation Blog
The official website of Sweden
Usain Bolt