Advantage and disadvantage of wordpress

    WordPress Advantages and Key Features

WordPress is the most desired website development platform today and its popularity can indeed be evaluated with the fact that it powers over 23 percent of the websites. Well, the figure isn't constant but increases every single day.

Although WordPress has considerably high competition in the website development market, this powerful CMS (i.e. Content Management System) combines a group of features, viz. Simplicity and User-friendliness. Its under-the-hood complexity for developers cannot be overlooked though. However, the following list of standard features and advantages, powers WordPress stand out in the competition:

·         Quick Installation and Upgrade

WordPress has simple and quick processes of installation and upgrade. Simply create your web pages online and upload the database. In case of using the FTP program, simply create a database and upload WordPress, and subsequently install it to continue.

·         User Management

A website has several different roles associated with it. For instance, the administrator to manage the web pages, writers and editors to manage content, users or subscribers to create and manage their profiles. WordPress makes the management quick and easy.

·         Simplicity of Operations

The simplicity and ease of operations make the process efficient and the productivity level enhances as a result. With WordPress, you can anytime create a new web page and publish content with quickness, thereby following the standard Internet culture.

  

·         Inbuilt Themes

WordPress has multiple inbuilt themes and allows you create more as per your personal or business requirements. WordPress API powers you create themes that can be very simple as well as complex in design.

·         Inbuilt Comments

You write and publish a blog of your WordPress website. Your friends and followers can put their comments, as WordPress' built-in comments feature provides them with a space or forum for discussion. You can manage or moderate those comments.

·         Extensions & Plug-ins

WordPress is a feature-rich website development platform that meets your different needs. A plug-in directory full of plug-ins extend its features. Use these plug-ins enhance the features and functionality of your website.

·         Flexibility

WordPress is an Open-source platform for website development and you can proceed with any type of theme, i.e. a personal blog to a full-fledged professional website. Choose any of the existing designs or create a new one.

• Media Management

You can add images, videos, and other media items to your WordPress website and enhance the richness of content. Simply drag the media content from your computer and drop it into the uploader to get it uploaded. Use the image editing tools if required.

Not only is WordPress available free of cost, but also the open source to be used in any manner.

     Advantages & Disadvantages of Wordpress

• Advantages:

1. Easy to Use
   While most products advertise themselves as being “easy to use” WordPress doesn’t advertise this, this is the reputation it has earned. Unlike Drupal and Joomla, WordPress doesn’t require knowledge of PHP or HTML coding. WordPress comes with rich preinstalled features that are literally point and click, installing plugins is simple, and their templates make designing easy.
   WordPress is an out-of-the-box turnkey solution that just works. It comes loaded with rich features without any tweaking, coding or other bumbling around. If you are a beginner user then seriously consider using WordPress.

2. Menus
   WP 3.0 has some great menu options, making it prettier and simpler than Joomla due to its custom menus that can be rearranged to include categories, pages, etc.
3. Community
   Having a large community to draw on for support and tricks is important to many people and WP has one of the largest online communities around.
4. Themes 
   There are thousands of free themes available online to use to help you choose a design for your site. There are also premium themes available for purchase for those who want an added touch of professionalism to their site.
5. Plugins
   There are almost 13,000 plugins available for the WP platform. It is through these plugins that WP gained its CMS title as plugins opened up WP to a world of possibilities. Most of these plugins are free which is cool.  
6. Custom Fields
   Through the use of custom fields you can turn WP into a CMS by going beyond the typical blogging activities like posting, categorizing and tagging. They have made this process easy for beginners as well with the addition of custom field plugins like ‘Custom Fields Template,’ ‘Flutter’, and ‘More Fields’.
7. Pods CMS
   This plugin allows you to create and manage different content types without using custom fields.

• Disadvantages:

1. WP Scripting
   For advanced users who are familiar with more advanced techniques like scripting, WP uses its own script. And knowledge of the WP script is necessary for things like adding or removing post dates.
2. Design Knowledge Required
   While WP does have plenty of nice-looking templates many people want to design a unique website as WP themes often look too similar to one another. To make unique designs in WP you need knowledge of the CSS style sheet language, and odds are that if you have this sort of designing knowledge you will want a more powerful toolset like those available in Drupal-like CMSs.
3. Too Many Plugins
   WP needs a lot of plugins to be able to do the things that Joomla and Drupal can do out of the box. While the plugins are available they can slow your page down if you install too many of them. The double-edged sword on WP plugins is that by the time your page has been slowed because of the plugins you have already put a significant amount of man-hours into the project and would be reluctant to migrate to another CMS. Plan for this ahead of time by looking at how many plugins you would need to create the functionality you want.
4. PHP Security
   Unfortunately the PHP security for WP has a shoddy track record and security isn’t as strong as some of the other platforms. This will only be a factor depending on how sensitive the content of your site is.
5. Documentation
   While there is a large online community of users to help and support you there is little to no offline documentation. WP has been criticized for not creating a MS SDK document, especially now that it calls itself a CMS.
6. Tables and Graphics
   Modifying and formatting tables and graphic images is more difficult in WP than in its competitors.
7. Needs Regular Updates
   WP is constantly changing and growing and it needs regular updates. This is not a big deal unless you are looking for a set-it-and-forget-it solution, in which case this might not be the solution for you as it needs periodic updates.
8. Queries
   Queries can be a difficult and convoluted process because of all the custom fields you need to use to go take WP beyond typical blogging actions. Often you need a Custom Select Query, which can be a royal pain in the butt.