Advantages of WordPress
- free and freely available,
- fast, light and easy installation – just download the package from WordPress.org or use the autoinstallation in the hosting, the package takes less than 12MB,
- low hosting requirements, i.e. low cost of maintenance – works best with Apache and/or nginx servers,
- effectively meets most of the requirements of average websites in the base,
- functional, easy-to-use and intuitive interface for the client, e.g. screen options, filtering, article search, page settings,
- friendly mechanisms facilitating development for developers, e.g. API shortcode, a multitude of ready-made functions,
- rich functionality, teasers, tags, categories, featured images, comments, password protection of specific subpages,
- automatic archive, author pages, customizable permalink, etc…
- easy creation of your own templates, you can easily integrate any existing website with WordPress.
- meets most good SEO practices, thanks to the mechanism of tags and categories, semantic addresses, canonical links, the library serves photos with alt attributes, built-in photo optimization,
- popular, which makes it easier to find help in the event of breaking cooperation with the site’s contractor,
- simple version control system – thanks to it you can view the history of changes and quickly undo errors and, for example, schedule publications
- WP heartbeat mechanism – which performs autosave in the background and we are able to restore unsaved modifications,
- functional media library – thanks to which we manage photos, attachments and even entire galleries, we have a simple editor at our disposal that offers the most necessary functions, scaling, cropping and other transformations,
- great opportunities to optimize photos and images,
- convenient and useful custom fields that make it faster and easier to create your own templates from scratch.
- detailed, clear and developer-friendly documentation with many use cases,
- built-in jQuery library allows you to easily add add-ons and visual effects,
- the availability of many good plugins allows you to extend the functionality of WordPress at a low cost,
- frequent updates to maintain an appropriate level of performance, security and compatibility with the latest technologies,
- high security, which results from the point above
