WORDPRESS AS A Content Management System.

Before coming to the point that what are the benefits of using wordPress as a content management system, let’s have a brief understanding of the content management system. I have explained this topic in my last article.

By the way, What is WordPress??

The most popular CMS today is WordPress. WordPress is like a web software that can be used to create a beautiful website or blog. It allows us to easily create a web blog, on our site and offers tools along with design features that make it easy to develop and integrate a personal or professional blog on our site.  A blog is very beneficial for a business. By having a blog we can consistently provide fresh content to your potential customers. We can either hire wordpress developers to create our blog or create by ourselves. It is very easy to create a wordpress blog. We can choose any wordpress theme( will discuss future article soon)  of our choice and install it on our server.

Having a blog can prove beneficial to business, as we are consistently providing fresh content for potential customers. It shows that how much you are serious about our business. It creates a trust point in our customers.

Advantages of WordPress As a CMS

As it has features like integrated link management, a search engine friendly, clean permalink structure, support of tagging post & article & automatic filter that provide for proper formatting of text in articles. Due to which, it is widely used. There are many benefits of using wordPress as content management system because of which it is widely used. Some benefits of using wordPress as a CMS are as follows:-

•   WordPress development is very economical and hence can be easily afforded by small and medium sized firms. After installing it, you do not need to spend on seeking professional assistance for making changes in the site. We can easily make all the changes on our own.
•  A WordPress CMS design ensures that we do not need to worry about SEO (SEARCH ENGING OPTIMIZATION) semantic coding. WordPress is designed and coded in such a manner that search engine spiders love it. Thus it boosts the chances of our site getting indexed by search engines.
•  WordPress allows us to have multiple users. That is, admin can give access to as many users as we want, with limited control.
• Another important advantage of WordPress is the vast range of plug-ins( will discuss future article soon) offered by it. With the help of various WordPress plug-ins, we can extend the functionality of our site and can make it user friendly and robust.
•  WordPress allows us to easily manage content such as pages, posts, images, videos, text etc.
•  WordPress provides easy load balancing. Thus a website will work properly even when there is a huge traffic increase on website.
• It is quite user friendly as well as SEO friendly and helps in increasing the volume of traffic to a website.
•  WordPress provides complete protection from Spam. Pre installed Akismet helps in blocking spam in the background.
•  WordPress also has the feature of automatic upgrades. Thus, when a new version of WordPress is released, we need not go through the WordPress upgrade every time, it is done automatically.

What is Content Management System (CMS)

Today managing content is very important because business activities are carried out on a vast scale and as a result there are a lot of reports, data, and records being generated. Information is being created extensively in various formats and managing all such content efficiently is necessary to keep track of all that is being recorded. This is where using a Content Management System is necessary.

 There are many CMS Systems available in these days. Following Systems are very popular and commonly use in industry and among developers.

    WordPress (very popular open source system which is developed using PHP)

    joomla ( popular open source system developed using PHP)

    Drupel (Open source system/PHP)

for Searching more CMS systems, you can visit,

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/top-10-most-usable-content-management-systems/

http://spyrestudios.com/free-content-management-systems/

 Benefits of using Content Management System

• CMS is user friendly,allowing for easy web publication, content management and updates. Many CMS system are so user friendly they require no technical knowledge. 

• CMS is Search Engine and Search Engine Optimization friendly. CMS websites are particularly SEO friendly, with many great plug-ins available to manage website SEO. 

• Customized website templates. CMS websites are template-based and there are various template developers on the web. Web designers often generate custom website templates for clients to give them a unique look and feel. 

• Robust component and plug-in directories. The strongest feature of CMS platforms like WordPress and Joomla is their plug-in and component systems. This allows developers around the world to develop applications for the respective platforms that benefit the whole community. 

• Community Support. The CMS community is one of the strongest in the world with great support and resources to assist you with your web development needs.

• Built-in user content generation and comment. WordPress and Joomla in particular have great built-in user content generation and comment features that allow users to have their comment and contribute to content generation. 

• Consistency of design is preserved. Because content is stored separate from design, the content from all authors is presented with the same, consistent design. 

• Content can be Reused from any places. In many CMSs, content is stored in a database. Central storage helps to reuse content from any where and can be formated for any devices such as web browser, mobile devices etc. 

• Security. Many content management systems store information in a database system where access control mechanisms can more easily restrict access to the contents. Done correctly, the information is only accessible via the CMS thereby providing better protection for the site’s content from many common and standard web site attacks.