Why WordPress

WordPress is not your website, but is a powerful tool for developing, growing and maintaining your website and blog content. Let us help design a WordPress website for your business.

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A Powerful Tool

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a widely used CMS for websites and blogs (as of surveys in 2014 and 2015, View Report):

  • 74.6 million websites are based on WordPress.
  • 48% of all blogs are based on WordPress.
  • 24% of all websites are based on WordPress
  • 37,868 Plugins are available.
  • 19,000 Plugins are free (donations accepted).
  • 2,500 Themes of which 800 are Responsive (automatically adapt the display to mobile devices).
  • Most popular CMS for business websites.


WP is structured with these major components:

  • DashBoard for complete website management, by us, you and selected employees.  This is accessed with a browser.
  • Themes for structuring the website’s display and format. Most themes are mobile friendly.
  • Templates for setting the layout of individual pages.
  • Gutenberg Blocks for ease of editing and adding custom content.
  • Plugins and Widgets which add features and functionality.
  • Open Source access to customize all content and functions with additional programming.
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Beautiful Designs

Benefits of WordPress

Some of the major benefits of using WP:

  • Your site will automatically display well on mobile devices.
  • Easy integration with social media sites, such as a Facebook feed on a page, share icone and link icons.
  • Higher rankings with search engines. This is well documented.
  • Numerous plugin and widget options.
  • Integration with and sharing of your blog.
  • Easier content management by both developers and owners.
  • Ease of using drop down menus and moving pages around on your site as well as adding a site map.
  • Ease of setting up a header and footer for your site.
  • Ease of adding Google Analytics to your site to monitor activity.
  • Multiple users may be defined with several levels of permission for managing the website and contributing to content and blogs.  This provides you with complete control over your website.
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Easy To Stay On Track

WordPress Plugins

Many plugins have recently been replaced with Gutenberg Blocks. A few examples of plugins to enhance your site:

  • Google analytics support.
  • Yoast SEO.
  • Numerous Guttenberg Editing Blocks for displaying products, calendars, maps, galleries, slideshows, blog posts and more.
  • Ecommerce solutions from WordPress and other developers.
  • Shipping rate calculators which integrate with ecommerce plugins.
  • Poll and Survey management and reporting.
  • Contact forms management and reporting.
  • Forms management and reporting.
  • PayPal donations.