WordPress, CMS for blogging or universal template?
Before website development ordering, business owners inevitably face a choice: which content management system (CMS) to use for their future website. Some rely on subjective online reviews, others look for the most cost-effective option, and still others trust the opinions of hired developers.
As a result, most people who choose ready-made free or licensed engines eventually discover that they're using the resource for other purposes. They soon learn firsthand all the pitfalls of shareware software.
In the professional web development community, debates continue on the following points:
- Should they create an architecture from scratch or use ready-made solutions (for example, a popular blogging engine)?
- Is the software a full-fledged content management system or just a set of high-quality templates?
- Which platform should they choose if they're on a budget?
- What are the critical vulnerabilities of publicly available templates?
What kind of CMS to choose?
Web development companies that have not heard of anything except WordPress always convince the customers that free template is the simplest and most popular. And it confuses customers.
Astudio offers web design from scratch without CMS templates. And if the cost of the development from scratch is competitive, you need to order a CMS that suits your business needs.
In the CIS countries, 45% of websites are rolling out on WordPress, 25% on Joomla, about 10% have CMS Drupal. Each of these CMS templates can be handy for building a simple resource. But some facts must be taken into account when building a platform on WordPress CMS.
- WordPress is the most popular system for content management
- WordPress was created for blogging
- Initially, only news sites and blogs were created using this platform.
- WordPress has a wide range of plugins, which allows creating a website within few hours.
The Disadvantages of WordPress
- Changes on WordPress are not always that simple and easy.
- For flexible functions, a large number of plugin installations are required.
- Plugins negatively affect the load speed of the site.
- WordPress puts a lot of workload on the server.
- When features need to be developed and updated, it turns out that some services are paid.
- Search Engines don't evaluate the resources built on WordPress.
- Research the top ten search engines with all the key queries. It turns out that you almost do not encounter WordPress.
- Most popular WordPress plugins are quite vulnerable.
- WordPress-based websites are most often attacked successfully.
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