Is WordPress Good For Blogging? Yes! Here’s Why?

Why is WordPress good for blogging?

Not only is WordPress good for blogging, it’s great for blogging. Here’s why. 

WordPress is not only a good choice for blogging but a great choice for both personal as well as professional blogs. Most popular bloggers on the internet use WordPress as their CMS (Content Management System) because WordPress is user-friendly and comes with all kinds customizable functionality that any Blogger would need to create a successful and popular blog.

Here are some more reasons why WordPress is good for blogging:

• WordPress is free!
• Thousands of free themes and plugins.
• WordPress is ot only good for blogging but versatile and scalable, great for all kinds of websites, like personal portfolios and blogs, forums, image galleries, brochure sites, eCommerce sites, etc.
• WordPress was originally created for bloggers so they could write and publish blog articles, i.e posts fast, without knowing a single line of code.
• WordPress is a good choice for students or people who want to start blogging either for a hobby or eventually into a full-time career.

When WordPress was created in 2003, it had started out as a simple blog publishing platform. At the time there was no true open source blogging platform. 

Sure you had Blogger and a few other blogging platforms, but they were and still are closed source. 

There were other blogging platforms that were and still are also open source, as they were in 2003, like Drupal and Joomla to name two. 

Although they were and still are open source, they were mostly created for website development and not necessarily for bloggers in particular. Though you can still blog on those other two open source platforms as well. 

Another reason why WordPress is good for blogging is because it was created so that those of us who are not coders or programmers can set up a website and get it live on the internet without having to write a single line of code, nor be stuck on a closed source platform. 

Both of these circumstances I will go into more detail about below. WordPress has of course since evolved into much more than a blogging platform though. 

WordPress is now a full blown CMS and includes other types of web content management services like forums, mailing lists, media galleries, learning management systems, ecommerce as well as memberships sites and much more.

In this post, I’m going to go over some of the most important reasons why WordPress is good for blogging and why, you too, should choose WordPress to start your blog or website.

WordPress is open source.

WordPress is open source, so what’s the big deal? 

What exactly is open source?

WordPress’s code is not proprietary. It’s free and open for anyone to use as they see fit. They can build their own themes, add functionality by building plugins and they can be hosted on any Web Hosting Provider they like. 

WordPress users can use other people’s codes to build whatever web project they like. Anything you build with WordPress, whether that’s a theme, plugins or any customizations etc. is yours to keep and use as you like.

On the contrary, with closed source platforms their source codes are proprietary. This means that the company who owns the CMS (Content Management System) legally owns anything built with its code using their CMS. 

So for example, let’s say you create a website on Wix or even Blogger for that matter, although Blogger is free. The theme, plugins as well as any customizations you have made to them are not yours to keep. 

You cannot simply move a Wix or even a Blogger created website to any other hosting provider and self host it. This means that if you have a Wix website then you’re totally dependent on Wix for hosting as well as support and service. 

If you ever want to leave Wix, the only things you can take with you are your domain name, if you own it and any content you have on it. The theme, customizations you’ve made to that Wix theme as well as any plugins and customizations that were made to your website has to stay behind. You cannot take it with you.

If you would like to read more about open source, check out this resource here: “About open source software and the Open Source Initiative”

WordPress sites can be Self-Hosted.

Speaking of self-hosting, WordPress websites can be hosted anywhere. Although WordPress.com does offer Managed WordPress hosting, you’re not obliged to stay with WordPress.com if you choose not to. 

You can host your WordPress website on any number of independent Web Hosting Providers. 

So for example, if you are on a Web Hosting Provider and you’re having a lot of problems with your site, whether it’s speed, crashes, hacking etc. and you’re not satisfied with their support, service or pricing, you can simply migrate your WordPress website, including your themes, plugins, customizations etc. to another independent Web Hosting Provider and self-host it there. 

You cannot self-host a website that is built on a closed source platform. But you can with WordPress.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world.

WordPress is the “Top Dog” in the CMS world. WordPress powers approximately 40% of all websites on the internet today. Therefore, this makes WordPress the most popular CMS in the world.

WordPress sites are easier to sell.

Because WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world and anybody who has ever built or even had a website knows of it, it’s much easier to sell. 

In addition, since WordPress is open source, anyone who buys or sells a WordPress website can have it hosted anywhere they like. 

If you sell a website that is on a closed source platform, the new owner is stuck with the closed source platform’s hosting as well as their pricing, support and service. This is why WordPress CMS websites are the most desired websites in the website marketplace.

WordPress has thousands of free themes and plugins.

If you go to WordPress.org you will find thousands of free themes and plugins that you can use for your WordPress website. 

You can download them directly from WordPress.org onto your local computer. WordPress themes and plugins will be downloaded in a .zip file format. You can then upload the .zip files onto your WordPress dashboard.

However, you don’t even need to go to WordPress.org in order to get a free theme or plugin or any theme or plugin for that matter. 

This is because in your WordPress dashboard you can either go to the Themes section or the Plugin section and type the name of the theme or plugin into the search bar. 

You will then be shown a white variety of themes and plugins that best matches your search query. 

If you’re not sure what kind of theme you would like and just want to browse around, you can do that too. Just simply type in some keywords that you would like your theme to resemble or the type of functions you’re looking for in a plugin.

WordPress will pull up all kinds of options for you to take a look at. 

In fact, you can easily install any WordPress theme or plugin and try it out. 

See what it looks like, take a look at the settings etc. If you don’t like what you see, you can simply deactivate the theme or plugin and/or delete it, then install another.

WordPress is beginner friendly.

WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform for non-programmers and non-coders so that they too, can have a place on the internet to express themselves through their blogs without having to write any code, just their thoughts.

Therefore, WordPress CMS had to be created and organized so that even the most computer illiterate could get a website up and live on the internet.

However, WordPress has evolved greatly since 2003. It’s easier now more than ever for an absolute beginner to not only get a simple WordPress blog up and live on the internet, but an absolute beginner can actually create a fully functional website. 

There are all sorts of themes and plugins that can help you add a forum, membership site or even an ecommerce store.

WordPress has the biggest CMS and resource library in the world.

Because WordPress has been around for so many years and because of the whole openness of the open source movement WordPress has a huge library of resources and coding solutions to almost any task that you want to do with a website imaginable. 

Developers and even amatuer WordPress enthusiasts gladly contribute their projects and coding solutions to WordPress’s huge library of resources, free of charge. That’s what the “open source” movement is all about. 

WordPress sites are versatile and have the ability to scale.

Although WordPress started out as a blogging platform, it didn’t stay there. As I’ve mentioned above at the beginning of this post, WordPress is a full blown CMS. Any type of website or content that you want to make happen on the internet, you can make it happen with WordPress. 

Perhaps you want to start a simple personal blog or a blog about one of your hobbies or interests. You can easily scale that and develop it into a website with a forum for other enthusiasts and readers of your blog to participate. 

Forums are a great way for not only you to engage with your audience, but for your audience to engage with one another. 

You can add an ecommerce store and sell recommended products or even your own products that you create. The opportunities are endless with WordPress and what you can do with it.

WordPress has the largest CMS community in the world.

WordPress has a large, engaged and active community. You can find WordPress forums on sites like GitHub.com, Stackoverflow.com, Stackexchange.com, Reddit.com, Quora.com and of course WordPress.org. 

Those forms are just the ones that I know off the top of my head, but there are countless other forums and websites that do nothing but share WordPress tips and developments etc. 

Let’s put it this way, there will never be a lack of information, tips nor solutions to any WordPress issues you may come across. If you’re experiencing it now with a theme or plugin for example, someone else has before you and usually created a solution for it. You can count on it.

Is WordPress good for blogging? Now it’s your turn! Summary.

Although WordPress started out as a blogging platform, it is also good for almost anything web related other than blogging. 

WordPress, even though it is the biggest and most popular CMS in the world, doesn’t mean it rests on its laurels. WordPress is constantly evolving, changing and improving.

Its Core is always kept up to date to make sure that it runs clean, doesn’t bloat down a website with old and too much coding which can slow it down. But most of all, its regular updates keep it secure. Though these are all indeed, tall orders. 

Especially when you’re the most popular CMS, because like it or not, when you’re “Top Dog”, there are always those looking to take you down. 

In the case of WordPress it’s hackers that are always looking to take it down. This is why WordPress and those who are involved in the community and it’s development are constantly looking for ways to make WordPress more secure, yet fast and easy for almost anyone to use. 

So, what do you think? Is WordPress good for blogging? 

I think it is and more.