People, especially who wants their business website has to be built, feel skeptical about the WordPress. Mainly it was popularized as a blogging platform for few initial years. Later WordPress evolved drastically and it is quite possible to build any kind web application on it.  Let us glance…

The 37% of all websites built on WordPress (Source: here ). Yes, you heard it right. 1/3 of websites are served via WordPress and the growth is constantly increasing. In 2011, the market share of WordPress was just 13%. The WooCommerce platform for eCommerce websites has 7% of market share in online shopping arena.

Pros of WordPress!

1. Vast developer community
2. Pre – built templates to ease the development
3. Many plugin scripts to integrate and use.
4. Open source
5. Highly customizable.
6. Search Engine friendly.
7. Supports API calls to CRMs, ERPs for data integration.
8. Version handling with Git.
9. User friendly.
10. Easy payment gateway integrations
11. Social Media auto push. and many…

Cons of WordPress !!

1. Malicious Plugins
2. Not well developed themes ( If you are using free templates)
3. Multiple css files as each plugin comes with its own css file.
4. Clashes between plugins and Theme

So, WordPress eases the development and helps to have a website at better speed.

(To be continued)

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