If you’ve been thinking about building out your site in a CMS, you’ve already considering using WordPress to do it. Sure there are other options like Joomla, Drupal, etc. etc. which are very powerful in their own right, but for what most sites need to do, WordPress is a great choice. Why you ask? Well…

1. Ease of Use – WordPress is undoubtedly the EASIEST to learn and use open source CMS on the net. With pages just a click away in a very easily navigated administration panel, anyone can use it. I’ve taught everyone from children to technologically illiterate seniors how to use WordPress as a CMS in just a few minutes. It’s very intuitive, you want to edit a page, go to pages -> edit, and there you go. Easy.
2. Flexibility – With sites built on wordpress ranging from music + video, real estate, e-commerce, and of course, the almighty blog, there is nothing you CAN’T do with it. You can even create your own niche networking site with WordPressMU or your own inter-company private twitter clone. Building a CMS with wordpress is easily attainable thanks to this flexibility.
3. Plugins, Plugins, Plugins – No more need to spend countless hours creating new functions from scratch or dropping big bucks on getting them done. Need an audio player? It’s there. Need e-commerce? It’s there. All the plugins you could ever need to turn WP into a CMS for your site.
4. Support From the Web - Since WordPress is such a popular blogging tool, there are a ton of resources online. Not just support forums, but countless blogs dedicated just to wordpress tips and tricks, sites loaded with free themes, and sites with tips to improve your sites performance. Also, if you ever have a technical bug, hope over to the wordpress support forums and you’ll likely find your solution in the boards.
5. Themes for Days – There is just about an endless supply of free and paid themes to choose from if you’re looking to get off to a quick start, or don’t really need a custom theme for your blog. Eventually, you’ll outgrow your free themes, but it’s a great way to get started with little investment into the world of blogging and using WordPress as a CMS.
6. SEO – Using wordpress permalinks along with many of the Search Engine Optimization plugins gives you a great foundation for on-page SEO. You can edit your titles, descriptions, and keywords without digging into the html and you can even send your sitemaps automatically when pages are updated – all through the administration panel. Making your CMS site easily found by the search engines.
7. Finally, It’s FREE – WordPress is a completely free and open source project. Not just the code is free, so are the plugins, themes, and support forums. The only thing that isn’t free – getting a custom site built, but when is that ever free?

There you have it. Seven reasons to consider using WordPress as your CMS back-end. Looking to get your CMS custom built and designed by WordPress pros? We can help. Just contact us today!