As an owner researching about website solutions for your business, I am sure this is not first time you heard the word "Wordpress". In this article we will give short introduction about wordpress for non-technical person. We I have tried to cover details that are relevant from an owners point of view. So let's get into it.
What is wordpress?
Biggest misconception is that wordpress is a website builder. Surely it is, but it's actually way more than that. Wordpress is a Content Management System (CMS). A Content Management System is a basically a storage for all type of data. For example: If your are starting a business to store clothes, you surely want to store all your customers purchase data right? Or suppose you are starting an online library, Then you want to store all the books information somewhere. That's where wordpress kicks in. Wordpress allows to store all the data in a specific format. So for customers data, wordpress can store name, email, etc. For books it can store author, book url, rating, etc. Along with this wordpress also allows to build websites. It has lots of customizability, and it is an open source technology which means it is free to modify its source code. This makes it more popular among developers because there are plugins for preety much everything you may want in a website.Why is wordpress so popular
Like I said previously, Wordpress allows use of 3rd party plugins and themes. This makes it lot more customizable. For example there are many SEO plugins in wordpress. These plugins makes job easier for content writer since they can get tsuggestions. Another great example is ecommerce development. There are many free and paid ecommerce plugin for wordpress. Most famous one being woocommerce. It allows payment gateway integration, Invoiving, Taxing, etc.
As a business owner, is wordpress website a good choice.
Absolutely, it is. There are many big business that uses wordpress. For example micorosoft news, BBC, Techcruch, they all opt-ed for wordpress. There is also market place to get free and paid themes for wordpress. And there are experts who knows how to develop a custom wordpress theme. Wordpress can save you both time and money. Wordpress community is so large that you can always find help for preety much anything.
How much do wordpress development cost in 2022?
Wordpress development can cost you from $800 upto $5000. More complex ecommerce website with 100s of products can cost you more. While small informational websites with 10-20 can be easily done within $1000 - $1500. Blogging website often cost more than that. Along with a website SEO is also an important factor for business. Good developers know what to do with those tools and how to use them.
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