Today, WordPress is the best blogging platform that is used by almost every bloggers.
Nearly all bloggers have this software to set up their blogs.
Look at those popular bloggers, they are using WordPress for their blogs.
Why do people choose it over other blogging platforms? 1.
It is a free software, an open source blogging platform.
This is the top reason why people love this open source blogging software.
It is rare that a good software like WordPress can be used with free of cost by everyone.
2.
People with limited knowledge of coding language can use WordPress.
If you are familiar with WordPress, WordPress is actually developed by PHP, HTML, and CSS language.
But don't worry, if you don't have any experiences on those coding languages, you still can use WordPress.
The user friendly dashboard interface, and drag and drop features of WordPress 3, will make more easier for you to have a good blog with lots of functionality.
3.
Ability to modify your blog with performance, look and functionality by using plugins.
Plugins are very important element of WordPress, with plugins, you can optimize your website for Search Engines, putting adverts easily, animating tag clouds, or embedding interesting videos on your blog with a single click.
4.
WordPress enables you to have your own design or look according to your need.
WordPress has tons of themes developer, either for free or premium ones.
If you want to change the look of your blog, you can easily search free themes in WordPress theme directory.
5.
An active support forum.
If you are a newbie who is using WordPress for your blog, and you find some problems, WordPress has an active forum to help WordPress users.
6.
WordPress blogs have more benefits for Search Engine Optimizations.
With ping and RSS built-in features, when you have a new article in your site, WordPress will automatically notify the updates to numerous search engines websites.
If you are going to start a blog, i encourage you to choose WordPress as the blogging platform.