Tuesday, May 3, 2016

WordPress: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

From both a user and technical standpoint, WordPress is the easiest Content Management System (CMS) to learn and use. What is more, its innate functions can be expanded and built upon to create something even more complex but equally amazing.
There’s certainly a lot to love about WordPress, but it’s not for everyone. If you’re trying to decide what blogging platform and have WordPress in the mix, then be sure you know exactly what you’re getting in to.

The Good

Your Site Is Yours

The biggest advantage to using WordPress over a platform like Blogger is that you truly own all the rights to your website — assuming nothing on your site is copied from someone else’s work, that is. (*wink*) Although your site is technically hosted on a server that you really can’t own outright, control over everything else that happens on your blog is in your hands. That stamp of ownership is generally enough for most to choose WordPress for their blog.

Easily Take Your Site To The Next Level

Image by Author shumbrat via Shutterstock
Image by Author shumbrat via Shutterstock
One reason for WordPress’ profound success is no doubt linked to the potential that the platform offers. You can use it to build a simple blog, or to build a highly profitable business. And even if you start out with zero expectations of your blog, you can easily take it to the next level if you realize that you’re sitting on a digital gold mine of your own making.
You can grow an email list, promote affiliate links or place ads on your site for profit, use WordPress plugins and services to supercharge your site, and more. Really, when you build a site on WordPress, the only limit you have is the one you set.

The Bad

Takes Time To Learn

Image by Author Tomnamon via Shutterstock
Image by Author Tomnamon via Shutterstock
WordPress is a full fledged Content Management System; therefore, it’s features are much more extensive than Blogger. As that is the case, there is going to be more to learn.
If you’ve never built a site on your own, you’ll quickly realize how time can get away from you as you do your best to learn everything entailed in running a WordPress powered blog.
You need to pick a host provider, learn to install WordPress, spend the time deciding on a theme, and then you have to learn how actually to use WordPress. Don’t get me wrong — it’s worth learning, but some may not like the hassle.

Demands A Lot Of Upkeep

Just like a car needs you to spend the time maintaining it, your website needs your attention when it comes to keeping it running. There are back-ups, WordPress updates, theme and plugin updates, keeping the comments on your blog nice and tidy — and that doesn’t even begin to cover the time it takes to write and edit posts.

The Ugly

It Can Get Expensive

Even though WordPress offers large advantages, the truth is that it’s going to cost you money. The cheapest of hosting can easily start at a hundred dollars per year, and truthfully, you’ll end likely end up spending a lot more.
This can certainly be money well spent, but it may be out of budget for some. For a nice overview of what it can cost to run a WordPress site, check out the post below:

Things Can Still Go Wrong

WordPress is great, but it is by no means perfect. Updates can wipe a site clean; hackers can virtually bomb your site; host providers can get hacked.
You can put as much time and money in to your site as humanly possible, but that doesn’t eliminate the danger of it completely going up in smoke. There are ways, of course, to make sure that total loss of your site doesn’t happen — the biggest one being that you should always, always, always back up your site on a regular basis.

Source: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-vs-blogger 

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