Myths vs Truth about WordPress

WordPress is the most popular platform for website creation. In fact, it runs more than 30% of the entire Internet sites. But despite this, there are a lot of different misconceptions, which confuse users and spoil the platform’s reputation. In this article, we will debunk the top 5 myths about this project.

Historically, people associate WordPress with the platform for bloggers. But WordPress is not limited to. Users confuse WordPress.org and WordPress.com. The first one is the software, that allows you to build site, and the second one is a blogging service run by Automatic. WordPress is a powerful tool, which can be used for building any kind of website:

• eCommerce store
• Community forums
• Social network
• Membership site

You have the ability to control any aspects of your site. Moreover, there are a lot of different plugins and extensions which you can use for your website’s design. The Internet is full of different WordPress tutorials, which are translated into dozens of languages, so, it is not hard to find the help and even build multilingual websites.

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WordPress is a powerful tool, which can be used for building any kind of website.

There is one of the popular myths, which is promoted by paid website builder platforms. WordPress is an open source project, means, that using its code is free of charge and nobody can’t restrict your access. So, it is not beneficial for commerce sites. WordPress is a self-hosted platform, and anybody can manage their scale and performance according to the site growth. A lot of sites with high traffic are powered by WordPress:

• Techcrunch
• The New Yorker
• Variety

This proves that WordPress is a great tool for businesses of different sizes. Attention! WordPress is a self-hosted platform, and anybody can manage their scale and performance according to the site growth.

A lot of users think, that if they use a WordPress for website building, it shows your non-professionalism. The truth is that WordPress provides you with a number of advanced capabilities, but people tend not to use them. Therefore, they simplified all designs and functionality. However, there are tons of thousand available themes that change the look and layout of your site. Here is the list of platforms where you can find them:

• Theme Directory
• ThemeIsle
• ThemeForest

Additional to themes, you can extend your site with hundreds of plugin. Supsystic has a 16 developed WP plugins for different sorts of sites. Every plugin has been translated into several languages, they are responsive and working with any themes. As any plugin developer’s team, we have free and PRO versions. For those customers that want to use several plugins, we have a special set of bundles:

• Mega bundle. This package gives an access to all plugins at an attractive price
• Basic bundle. This package consists of 12 plugins
• Membership bundle. This package consists of all 6 membership extensions.

There are tons of thousand available themes that change the look and layout of your site.

Open source is a major movement and philosophy in the programming world. It enables developers to benefit from and build off the code of the entire communities, rather than build all projects from scratch. Moreover, it gives the confidence, that nobody can’t restrict your access to the open source project, like it did, for example, Twitter with their API sharing policy. Only you control the code of your site. If you interested in Open Source philosophy, you can just google it and find a lot of interesting information. And here is the philosophy lying under WordPress. WordPress was developed as a part of this movement by thousands of developers from various corners of the world. Its code is open, free, and rock solid. Even now anybody cannot only view it but also modify and add something new. If you have any proposes, submit it on the special section on the wordpress.org.

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WordPress was developed as a part of the Open Source movement by thousands of developers from various corners of the world.

Actually, it is true. WordPress doesn’t have a support department like Google or Amazon, but it has something better – open-friendly community, which is ready to help anytime. WordPress support is the most popular place where you can ask any questions for free and get help from other users. Also, every plugin or theme has their own support team, forums, and documentation. For example, in Supsystic we constantly work to develop and improve our plugin documentation. But if you have some problems, you can contact our support team. Attention! WordPress has an open-friendly community, which is ready to help anytime. So, in our opinion, WordPress is a great tool:

• It can be used both by professional coders and beginners
• It has a big community
• It is open source
• It is scalable.

Hope, this article allay the doubts of most of the skeptics, but the most confident approach – start to use it. Browse through our extensive collection of WordPress plugins designed to boost your business and find the perfect fit for your needs.