If you never had a blog before, installing WordPress can get your first domain name go live and operational. WordPress is a blogging platform which allows you to built blog for free so that you can concentrate more on the blog content.

Benefits Of WordPress

WordPress is there since long, and millions of bloggers are using it. It’s very flexible blogging platform and good content management system (CMS). Below are some key benefits of WordPress.

Installation Is Quick and Easy

Almost every web hosting companies provide cPanelX as your hosting control panel. There you have got an option called “Fantastico De Luxe.” When you click on it, it will take you to a page where you can add multiple scripts. By following some simple instructions you can install WordPress with few clicks. The software will ask you some general information and will let you to install the latest version of WordPress.

WordPress Blog Themes

Many bloggers use generic WordPress theme that ships with WordPress (Twenty Eleven By WordPress Team). There are many free WordPress themes available which you can upload to your domain and can change the appearance and feel of your WordPress blog the way you want. There are currently 1,420 free WordPress themes on WordPress.org

WordPress Plugins

Just like WordPress themes there are thousands of WordPress plugins to add more functionality to your WordPress blog. Plugins are the scripts made by programmers to add more functions to the WordPress. Currently, there are 16,004 plugins available on WordPress.org.

Open Source

WordPress is built in PHP, and its source code is visible to everyone. It provides programmers with comprehensive documentation to work with WordPress codex. Anyone with minimal PHP knowledge can code WordPress theme and plugins with less efforts.

Software Updating

WordPress has an inbuilt feature which notifies when the never version of WordPress and plugins is available. You can update WordPress and plugin with a single click from your blog dashboard.

Quick Tip: To make your WordPress blog faster use cache plugin.

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