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WordPress is Free
- There is no additional charges to use WordPress, Unlike many other CMS that will have a paid features to extend it’s capabilities.
It’s Easiest Framework to Setup
- Most Hosting Providers have one-click Install Option for WordPress
Many Free Plugins that can help you grow your website Initially without spending much in development and customization.
You can use WordPress without having a degree in Computers. It’s Dashboard is Minimal and Straightforward. It uses simple Terminologies which makes it easier to Learn WordPress if you’re from Non-Technical Background.
There any many reasons to why you should use WordPress to create website still in 2023. I have summarized some of them here in this blog post. And to keep learning about free and awesome benefits of WordPress, subscribe to my newsletter.
Contents
– Offers Free Plugins
– Offers Excellent Free Themes
– Technical Advantages
– Easy to Setup and Maintain
WordPress offers Free plugins
WordPress has available the best utility and free plugins in the entire software ecosystem world period. Probably because WordPress is also the most used and appreciated open source software that’s used by businesses small and big, making it an anomaly in the open source software world. It’s used for single page websites and it’s also used to run news websites with millions of readers every day.
Some features are essential to running a successful website. These features are SEO – search engine optimization which ensures that your website is ranked higher in Google’s search results and thus attract more visitors to your website from relevant search parameters. Another feature is website speed optimization, this feature is essential for two reasons, it improves the visitors user experience of a website and it helps in Google’s SEO ranking. Similarly, website analytics, lead generation forms, user tracking, fast and responsive website, spam detection and website security from malware and virus are also some essentials features to a successful website.
The amazing fact is WordPress has free plugins to add all these features which I have mentioned are essential to creating a successful website. Here are some examples of free plugins offered by WordPress that can add essential features like good SEO building to creating a superfast website.
Yoast SEO –
- easily add meta title and meta description to a webpage
- easily change slug and other useful SEO settings
- easily add SEO keywords
- get free SEO rating (readability score) of your page content
- plugin shows useful seo suggestions specific to the webpage you’re editing
- provides overall website settings to increase SEO – breadcrumbs, organization information, content formatting, website meta details
- setup robots.txt file for crawler optimization
- create website sitemap for better SEO ranking
Schema.org –
- This plugin adds markup and creates Structured data from your webpage.
- Google uses this structured data to show Rich results of your webpage in Google search
- and this plugin is free and you can add custom markup to your webpage
These could be helpful in giving you hint of how you can use Schema plugin and create useful rich results from Google search from your webpage. Here’s an example from (https://productiveshop.com/complete-list-google-rich-results/)
Visit https://productiveshop.com/complete-list-google-rich-results/ to see many other examples and their details of how and why they’re used.
Image Credit – https://productiveshop.com/complete-list-google-rich-results/
Popup Maker –
- Create free popup windows on your website and individual webpage
- This free plugin also includes settings to trigger popup for certain user parameters and website parameters
- website parameters can be a particular page or end of content
- It has multiple design options for these popup and you can add your custom design
- you can make small, medium or large size popup and it lets you add custom size
- It is integrated with Contact Form 7 plugin, it has multiple options that trigger popup after a form status is complete
Contact form 7 –
- create free contact forms
- save entries with additional free extension, or use plugin CRM Entries (is also free)
- configure success and notification emails to the user and admin
- integrate payment with a contact form
- save form entries to CRM using extension
- attach files to a user form submission
- change form design with CSS
- actions when form is submit, use javascript or use prebuilt options, redirect, and more
WooCommerce –
- this is a popular plugin but I thought I should include this in the list as few people may not have heard about this plugin or need a remainder that it exists.
- create a free e-commerce website using this plugin
- It has products, shipping, payment and such modules included
W3 Total Cache –
- this is another very famous plugin but I still thought I should include in the list just to remind readers about it.
- free caching plugin that increases website speed and improves SEO
- creates cached pages that reduce response time to visitors of website
- reduce size of page to reduce time to load
- optimize website files to load them faster to visitors computer or mobile if they’re accessing internet from their mobile device
- lazyload images
- utilize browser cache techniques to reduce server requests in subsequent user visits to other parts of website or repeat visits to website
Sidenote – WPRocket is has a paid version for under 60$ and it’s really impactful. If you want to make your website lightning fast, check it out. If you have multiple websites it offers 120$ option for 3 websites.
Also other free alternative plugins are – LiteSpeed cache, WP optimize
LiteSpeed is also a good paid option if you want to increase your website speed to really fast.
Akismet –
- Akismet is a free plugin, pre-installed with every WordPress setup which helps with blocking spam comments to a website
- spams are very annoying if you’re a first time WordPress user so don’t forget to activate this plugin after WordPress installation
reCaptcha for Contact form 7 –
- reCaptcha is a free extension that adds a layer of security to your contact form 7 plugin forms and prevents bots and other spam agents from submitting a contact form on website
- this helps you the headache of removing spam / bot submissions from your email notifications and WordPress dashboard
- this extension comes by default with Contact form 7 plugin, you have to register your website domain on Google’s reCaptcha service to start using this method of spam detection.
Cookie notice –
- This plugin adds the mandatory GDPR Compliance cookie notice to your website
- for more options related to GDPR Cookie Compliance you may want to check out this plugin below
Google Analytics –
- easily integrates google analytics with a website
- Previously Google Analytics now it’s renamed to Google Site Kit
- here’s a short description of the plugin from it’s official page “Site Kit is the official WordPress plugin from Google for insights about how people find and use your site. Site Kit is the one-stop solution to deploy, manage, and get insights from critical Google tools to make the site successful on the web. It provides authoritative, up-to-date insights from multiple Google products directly on the WordPress dashboard for easy access, all for free.”
- start tracking and gathering user information visiting a website, run campaigns, track campaigns with Google tag manager
Advance custom fields –
- Advance custom fields is very useful plugin if you want to add custom fields to your webpage such that they can be manipulated and showcased with custom design and allows you to be able to make a template that is re-usable
- The custom fields have many data types which can be useful in creating a custom template for webpage and allow the admin to manipulate content from dashboard/CMS
- This is vast plugin with many features and techniques for making a more versatile WordPress website
- Kindly visit the plugin page to read more about this plugin, you may really find this plugin useful in some scenarios
- Unfortunately some useful features like Repeater Field which lets you add multiple copies of a field from the dashboard and let’s you create a while loop in the template to display the multiple copies of the field in front-end
Custom API –
- This free plugin lets you add custom API endpoints to your WordPress website
- Which can be used to retrieve or store data to a WordPress website from a separate agent
- This is a useful plugin if you have multiple websites running under your business and you fetch information in between these websites
- Also you can pull information to your WordPress website from external APIs using this plugins GUI Graphical user interface which is easier for non-technical users
Elementor –
- Elementor is a promising way to create very good looking webpage in 30 minutes and free
- Its a free page builder with many design options,
- It provides you to be able to create responsive design and It has free available content types to use, and free templates are available.
- Elementor is ideal to create a good looking Landing page for free
These are some free themes that allow you to customize them completely from dashboard without having to buy paid version of these theme. Which is another reason why WordPress is the best choice to create a website with minimum budget.
Fremedy
https://themedy.com/themes/fremedy/
Fremedy is a simple WordPress theme which can be used to create education or organization type website without having to buy license.
Justread
https://gretathemes.com/wordpress-themes/justread/
Justread is a free WordPress blog theme. It’s really good looking and comes free of cost. No paid license.
Elementor
Here’s a guide article on how to setup free landing page templates in Elementor free plugin.
WordPress is future ready and flexible creating your own plugins and installing them on WordPress you can add or derive it’s functionalities and expand the WordPress CMS to provide new functionalities that you may require in future or even today.
It’s easy to setup. It’s lightweight (WordPress core is currently 30.8MB). It has minimum server needs so you can have a WordPress website running on even the cheapest server available although at the cost of low website speed and slow to edit in CMS and files.
WordPress is easy to Maintain
It’s cheap and cost effective to maintain a WordPress website than any other format of website. It’s easy to change content and add new content. It’s easy to optimize or add new features in the future. It’s easy to backup and restore in case of technical difficulties. It’s easy to debug and troubleshoot if errors arise, thanks to plethora of forums and communities offering solutions to almost every error / problem that can exist in WordPress.
Another reason why WordPress is still the best choice for creating and maintaining your website is availability of developers from various technical levels and scope of work. Fiverr and Upwork being the most accessible directories of WordPress developers whom you can hire for a simple task like solving a bug to adding a new interactive feature to your website – all in one place.
by ajithimself@yahoo.com
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