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The benefits of learning WordPress.
Here are 17 benefits of learning WordPress:
- Get your own blog or website up on the internet without knowing a single line of code.
- WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the internet today.
- It’s the most popular CMS in the world.
- Has the largest library and more resources than any other CMS on the planet.
- Has the best resale value of any CMS built website.
- Cheap to get started if you self-host. Free hosting available to get started with WordPress.com’s free blog plan.
- Thousands of free themes and plugins.
- Open Source, what you buy or build is yours to keep and host anywhere you like.
- Get your first website up and live on the internet within a couple hours, with no experience.
- You can learn WordPress for free.
- Plenty of YouTube videos, forums etc. devoted to WordPress that can solve almost any issue you may come across.
- Build anything from a small blog, attach a forum, provide online classes, create a portfolio website, business site or a full out ecommerce store.
- Make money as a Freelancer by building WordPress websites with your favorite templates, then offer to manage them for your clients. You can even get a Hosting Reseller Account and sell hosting services to those clients as well. Subcontract specialized coding tasks to programmers if needed.
- You can review and sell all kinds of affiliate products and make commissions, like from Amazon.
- Build Opt-in pages to capture email addresses and names, then market your products or services to them.
- You can teach others how to set up their own WordPress blogs or websites.
- Build your own hobby blog.
In this post, you’ll not only realize the benefits of learning WordPress, but more importantly, how quickly you too can build great looking WordPress websites without having to learn or write any code. What’s the use of learning something if you can’t use it, right?
Does WordPress need coding?
The beauty of WordPress is that because it’s a CMS, i.e Content Management System, you don’t need to be a Coder, Programmer, Developer or even know how to code in order to create great looking and functional websites and get them live on the internet.
So no, you don’t need coding to build a WordPress website and run it.
However, if you did pick up some coding, you could probably do a lot more. Just the thought.
Is WordPress better than coding?
If all you’re interested in is getting a great looking and functional website live on the internet and you don’t know how to code, then WordPress is certainly better and coding.
However, if programming, coding and developing websites from scratch, breaking down themes, building plugins and you have an engineering yet creative mindset, then coding is definitely better than just using WordPress.
Heck, why not do both? You could always start out with WordPress and learn how to code along the way!
Is WordPress difficult to learn?
WordPress no doubt has a learning curve. But that is not to say that WordPress is difficult to learn. Because it’s not.
How quickly can you learn WordPress?
Learning WordPress can actually be a lifelong endeavor. Why? The WordPress ecosystem including its themes and plugins alone is quite deep.
However, WordPress is constantly evolving. With every update of its core to new developments to help you build even more beautiful websites like it’s block editor and page builder called Gutenberg, WordPress is always on the cutting edge and you always have to keep on top of it to reap its rewards.
But, the beauty of WordPress is in its origins. It was created after all with bloggers in mind. So the creators of WordPress have, from its inception, made extra efforts so that anyone without any coding experience can get a simple and functioning WordPress blog or even a small website up and running on the internet in no time.
But if you want an exact time and this could be different for everyone depending on your learning curve, you can learn enough to get a WordPress website up on the internet within a couple hours.
But I’m sure it will take you much longer than that. Why? Well, once you start diving deep into WordPress you’ll learn with every discovery you make how to customize your theme better, find all kinds of plugins that you would love to incorporate and give your website more and more functionality for your users etc. You will want to spend more time with it. WordPress can be addictive.
What’s the best way to learn WordPress?
The best way to learn WordPress in my opinion, is like with everything else, by doing. Downloading WordPress either on your Web Host’s Dashboard and installing it.
You can even download it on your local computer and learn how to build a website without even having a Web Host or having it be on the internet at all.
But once you dig into the WordPress Dashboard you’ll start fiddling around with header sizes, boxes, containers, widgets and colors and fonts, customizing your logo and thinking up of a cool sounding tag line etc.
However, you should know that WordPress has more resources including learning resources than any other CMS on the internet today.
In fact, you don’t need to look any further than YouTube. There’s hundreds of videos for anything you may want to learn about WordPress. WordPress.org also has a learning section as well.
There are also online courses both paid and free, as well as WordPress’s own “Word Conferences” and workshops. It’s not a question of what’s the best way to learn WordPress, it’s where to start?
Benefits of learning WordPress, conclusions.
There you have it. Not only the benefits of learning WordPress, but the benefits of using WordPress as well.
Once you realize the true value of open source and WordPress’s relation to it along with its history, you will realize that you’ve made the right decision.
I know what you may have been considering in starting your first website. You watch all those Wix commercials, and you think “Yeah, Wix looks pretty cool and easy. I’ll just pop up a website with Wix”.
Unfortunately, Wix is closed source. Even though Wix’s websites do look pretty cool, everything you make with Wix is owned by Wix and not you. You can’t host a Wix website on any other platform but Wix.
This alone limits you and what you can do with your website and where you could take it.
However, because WordPress is open source, you can host it anywhere you like. Anything you get for free or buy, plugins you install, every customization you make are all yours to keep and own.
In addition, if you don’t like your current Web Host whether that’s WordPress.com or another Web Hosting Provider, you can migrate your WordPress website to another. You have much more selection in services and hosting plans including prices, then you ever could with Wix or any other closed platform CMS.
The benefits of learning WordPress are many. Are you ready for them? Start your journey, your WordPress journey, today and get a great looking website for the whole world to see on the internet right now!
You never know, you may turn that personal blog, hobby blog or even your professional portfolio website into a business that can support you and your family. That’s what you get with WordPress.
Some people are making a full time living building WordPress sites or selling products from their WordPress blogs. Why can’t you?
For more about WordPress and its features and benefits check out this link, “WordPress.org/features”.
