Wordpress functions both as blog and CMS. You can create a fully functional site and tweak it in any way you want it because it is open source. Read the rest of the article to learn more how Wordpress has become a preferred CMS of choice among web developers and site owners.

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Why Choose WordPress as Your CMS?
2011-11-01 06:11:35 Total Bounty
For many years, WordPress has become a trusted tool in personal blogging and building corporate
websites. It boasts itself for its ease of use and virtually unlimited customization opportunities along with
all the compatible tools such as themes and plugins that extends the basic functionalities of WordPress
as a blog and content management tool.
WordPress as blog and website
WordPress initially started as a blog and continues to function as such until today and more. It has
become as a blog tool of choice where creating blog posts, approving comments, and opening multiple
accounts with different level of permissions become painless.
Today, WordPress is more than just blogging because it evolved to supporting a full blown website.
Businesses make WordPress as content management system of their choice because they can integrate
both static corporate home page as well as the blog feature that is loved by search engine spiders that are
constantly looking for websites with fresh and useful content. If you’ve heard about the Panda update from
Google this would be another reason for you to intensify your effort to continuously make content on your
blog for spiders to crawl.
WordPress as Content Management System (CMS)
The Pages functionality of WordPress makes content management system possible. You can set a
certain site as your static webpage as in corporate website with your blog inside the main page or
somewhere along the top or the side of its navigation page. Forgot to add another important page after the
site went live? No problem, simply add another page and stuff it with information you want to put.
For people with no design skills one can take advantage of premium WordPress themes. Themes sell like
hotcakes lately simply because many of today’s premium WordPress themes have great functionalities
that are not available in traditional WordPress designs especially when you had your site developed by
independent web designers.
Premium WordPress themes worth mentioning are DIY themes, Elegant themes, Genesis, Iridium, Coda,
Emporium, Standard Theme, Photon, Cinch, and many others.
WordPress Plugins
Coding skills is not necessarily needed when using WordPress but a little knowledge will surely come in
handy. Otherwise, you’ll do just fine.
And as for functionality, the plugins are what makes WordPress more interesting. Plugins are small
applications that when added or “downloaded” to your WordPress help you accomplish a task that your
site would rather not be able to do otherwise. Have you seen websites and blogs where you can like the
content and comment on them directly using your Facebook account without having to fill out any form?
It’s because of a plugin. At the same time, there are plugin that are readily available in WordPress the first
time you used it. Akismet is a plugin installed in WordPress by default, a blog comment spam moderator.
Akismet requires activation and only works after that specific step is done. The plugin helps a lot in
combating spam comments but also has downsides for it captures even the legitimate ones simply
because their comments on your own or other websites were already previously tagged as such so a little
bit of manual approving is needed to take the comment out of the spam box.
There are countless of things you can do to with WordPress and just like us we recommend that you use
it to on your next website development project.
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