WordPress is blogging platform that can easily run ordinary website and media-rich sites such as podcasts. Why use WP and not some other platform? Here are some reasons.
- WordPress is a free - we can’t argue with that, but some actually consider that free is “disadvantage” - they tend to be people with more money than sense.
- Although WordPress is free, its development is overseen by a commercial company, Automattic, and they bring commercial savvy, financial resources, and slickness to the project
- WordPress has a huge community of developers and enthusiasts behind it - this means that there is a mass of online documentation and any number of plugins and themes.
- WordPress has a very rapid development cycle, which keeps it at the cutting edge as far as features are concerned, and any bugs or security holes are rapidly squashed.
- WordPress has a focus on usability and user-testing which many open source projects lack.
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