WordPress logoMany people may have originally heard of WordPress when people began blogging because it was a popular platform for bloggers. One of the main benefits of WordPress is it is so user friendly and there were a number of themselves available for people to use, it quickly gained popularity. While WordPress is a very good blogging platform, it is capable of doing so much more than just serving as a blog.

WordPress Is Used by Well-Known Companies

There are a number of well-known companies that use WordPress as their web platform. This includes companies like The New Yorker, Variety, Time and The New York Times Company. The designers for these sits were able to effectively use the WordPress platform to design pages that share information in unique ways. Each of the brands are distinctive from each other and visiting the sites, you are likely able to recognize them without seeing the name of the website.

WordPress Supports Retail Sites

There are plugins available that allow you to create a site that can handle selling items on the WordPress platform. While WordPress may not have been originally designed for ecommerce, the development team through the years have worked to make it possible. When looking at the different plugins available to do this, be sure to carefully check the security information. While many feature and plugins of WordPress are free, it is worth the added security and support that is available by using a plugin that you pay for.

WordPress Has a Community and Support

Since WordPress is such a popular platform a support community has been created around it. This community offers design solutions like themes or plugins. They may be able to help when you run into an issue with plugins not working together or be able to recommend the security measures you need to take to keep your website secure. This makes WordPress a great choice if you are designing your own website for your business, along with more flexibility than other web platforms that are more limited in the different formats that you use.

WordPress Scales Well

When you design in another platform, your site might not scale from mobile to tablet to a laptop well. Since the majority of people are spending their time online on their phones or tablets, it is important to have a site that scales well for your business. WordPress does it for you without causing any issues. This will keep your customers and followers happy.

Posts Make It Easy to Keep Customers Informed

Another advantage of WordPress is the blogging function. While you can design a website that does not include blogging, you can easily work one in if you want to. Posting is easy and it can give your customers something new to look at and read every day.

 

Similar Posts

| | | | | | | |

Live Stream Church Services and Events During Covid-19

Bypennerwebdesign

  My wife, Kate Bowler, and I have been adapting to the COVID-19 protocols like everyone else, and being part of the Christian community as well as a web developer got me thinking that church congregations may be able to benefit greatly from a little assistance going online with interactive live streaming of Sunday…

3 Commonly Asked Questions About Using Images on Your WordPress Blog

ByDurham Web Designer

As a part of your website on WordPress, you may have a blog. Your blog can be an important tool and a way to reach out to your customers. In order for your blog to accomplish the things that you want it to, you need to consider the content that you include on it. Visuals such as graphics, images and infographics are great things to include as part of your blog.  Here are some answers to common questions about using pictures and other visuals on your blog?

Do You Need a Visual with Every Post?

It is a good idea to have related images or graphs with every post on your blog. It helps to break up the text and you can use it to illustrate a point. Some blog posts may lend themselves to have more images, like if you have a blog post that illustrates how to complete a graph or make a dinner. If you do this, you can have an image that takes your reader through each step.

Where Can I Find Images?

There are a number of different places to find images. You can take the pictures yourself and edit them to use online. Camera phones have improved to the point that these images are often high enough quality to use yourself. You can find the images online. There sites that offer a subscription service that allow you to use their images for a monthly fee or to purchase different images to use on your blog. You can look for images that the owners allow you to use as long as you give them credit and post a link to the license. You should never just download images that you find without making sure that you have permission to use it. You can be sued for using images without the owner’s permission.

5 Steps to Starting a Blog on WordPress

ByDurham Web Designer
[caption id="attachment_1629" align="alignright" width="300"]wordpress web design Image courtesy of Cortega9 CC by-S.A. 3.0[/caption]

There are many benefits to starting a blog. You may be doing this to build a readership and customer base, or you may want to work on your marketing tools for your business. It may be a great way to keep your website content fresh and trending. If you are thinking about starting a blog on your WordPress site or if you just want to start a blog in general, here are five steps you can take.

Set Up the Blog

If you already have a WordPress site, then you will just need to turn on the blogging feature. The blog posts are created under the posts in the menu. They are easy to access. You may want to add the blog option to your menu and header. If you are starting the blog and do not have an existing website, you will need to choose a name, and either decide to host on WordPress, or to register a URL, and then find a site to host the blog. Once you have completed these steps, you are ready to start building your blog.

Determine What You Will Blog About

It is important to have a general idea of what you want to post about before you start. If you want to write a lifestyle blog, then you will have posts related to that. If you are blogging for your retail business or for a service industry, then your blog posts will focus on those businesses. This clear direction will help you over all.