Why choose WordPress?

WordPress is not the only publishing platform out there, but it has an awful lot to offer. In the following sections, I've called attention to WordPress' most outstanding features.

Main benefits of WordPress summarized:

• WordPress gives you full control over your website. You can change/adjust/modify/customize everything, and I mean everything, about your site.
• There are thousands of themes and plugins to choose from, hence giving you the possibility to make your website look and work however you wish. WordPress is extremely extendable. Basically, any additional functionality that you can dream of can be added by means of a plugin that you or your programmer friends can write.
• The day-to-day work with the platform is very easy to grasp. Tasks such as editing content, publishing new articles/posts, or interacting with the audience through comments have no learning curve.
• WordPress is open source. There's no price tag on the platform, you can get it for free. This also means that learning how the platform works under the hood and how to extend it even further doesn't require anyone's permission.

Who should use WordPress?

Basically, if you need a website, and you want to be able to build it yourself, then WordPress is the platform that will make it possible.

WordPress is the perfect tool, both for beginners just dipping their toes in website building for the first time and developers working on client websites professionally.

WordPress has been around for quite a while and was in development the whole time. Developers are working on WordPress constantly to keep it ahead of spammers and hackers, and to evolve the application on the basis of the evolving needs of its users.

WordPress' very first release, Version 0.70, was launched in May 2003. Since then, it has had more than two dozen major releases, with a number of minor ones in between. Each release came with more features and better security. Each major release comes with a codename honoring a great Jazz musician, and this has become a tradition in the WordPress world.

WordPress is not being developed by a lonely programmer in a dark basement room, by the way. On the contrary, there is a large community of people working on it collaboratively by developing, troubleshooting, making suggestions, and testing the application. With such a large group of people involved, the application is likely to continue to evolve and improve without pause.