Importance of WordPress
I personally prefer the user-interface of Shopify and its vast e-commerce capabilities, but WordPress is on top because it's totally free including it's thousands of plugins.
Written in PHP, it is a free website creation platform. It is said to be easy to use, but is incredibly feature rich. Without the use of plugins, you may be left with a basic blog site absent of customized design.
Regardless of those sentiments, the use of WordPress as a content management system to a web designer is extremely important, because when designing & delivering websites to clients, they must be granted the ability to update content themselves without the hassle of dealing with FTP and individual HTML, CSS & JS files. WordPress provides a client the ease of immediately updating a webpage, and with the click of a button is live on the web.
The Benefits
The common misconception about WordPress is that it's for making blog sites, but it is much more than that. Any website, with or without a blog, can be created using WordPress' software. Several important benefits would be the SEO Optimization, Feature Enhancing Plugins, Theme Customization, WooCommerce, W3C Compliance, & Minimal Coding Required. My favorite out of those features I've listed would be the SEO Optimization plugins such as YoastSEO. Also I love that WooCommerce, a powerful e-commerce plugin, is essentially free.
Conclusion
Learning to navigate the WordPress Admin dashboard can be a bit overwhelming; but, you'll have the comfort in knowing that you will have all of the tools and support needed to create an awesome website. You can check out the first WP website I created here: www.themoonchildproject.com . This was the final project of a Content Management course I recently completed.
Shanell A. Spann
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