Wordpress Advantages and Disadvantages?
WordPress is absolutely the world's most popular CMS. The script is in its origins more of a blog than a typical CMS. For a while now it's been efficient and it got thousands of plugins, what made it more CMS-like.
The script as an Open Source is the major special for most bloggers, but it can also be effectively used for designing modest websites.
You can download and view the CMS at www.WordPress.org.
Advantages
Easy, easy, easy ...
WordPress does not require PHP nor HTML knowledge unlinke Drupal, Joomla. A plugin and template function allows them to be very easily installed. It's good choice for beginners.
Community
To have a useful support, there must be a large community of users, who will be a part of e.g. a conversation board.
The script has over dozen thousand of plugins available on its website. Strong majority of the plugins is available for free.
On the scritp's homepage you can view thousands of graphics templates, that can change your website's look. You can find there both free and paid templates. The paid ones are often more advanced as well as more interesting.
WordPress menu organization has extended additional functionalities that can be modified to include categories, pages, post, custom menu, etc.
Non-standard fields
You can easily add fields to forms by yourself or using plugins. It will allow your blog or subpages to have additional labels, categories or descriptions.
Disadvantages
Modification requires knowledge of PHP
Operations like removing a date field requires some understanding of PHP language. It is the case for most of such modifications.
Graphics modification requires knowledge of CSS and HTML
Although there are plenty templates available on the homepage, most of them are very alike. To create a unique look, you need to know CSS and HTML.
Plugins and efficiency
To compete WordPress needs sufficiently of plugins to be installed. Unfortunately these plugins effect the script's efficiency and not in a good way. Another problem arises when you need to choose a plugin for a specific functionality. Among all the thousands of plugins, most of them have their clones.
PHP security
The script is not protected as well as other applications. It all depends on how sesitive is the additional content of your page.
SQL queries
Queries can be complex since all additional non-standard fields that make WordPress a CMS, require additional syntax.
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