WordPress is not the only publishing platform out there, but it has an awful lot to offer. In the following sections, I've called attention to WordPress's most outstanding features.
The main benefits of WordPress summarized are:
- WordPress gives you full control over your website. You can change/adjust/modify/customize everything, and I mean everything, about your site.
- There are thousands of themes and plugins to choose from, enabling you to make your website look and work however you wish. WordPress is extremely extendable. Basically, any additional functionality that you can dream of can be added utilizing a plugin that you or your programmer friends can write.
- The day-to-day work with the platform is very easy to grasp. Tasks such as editing content, publishing new articles/posts, or interacting with the audience through comments have no learning curve.
- WordPress is open source. There's no price tag on the platform; you can get it for free. This also means that learning how the platform works under the hood, and how to extend it even further, doesn't require anyone's permission.