Why is WordPress the best choice for your website?

In short: WordPress is a good choice if you want to change your website’s content — pages, news, images — yourself, without a developer. It is not always the best: for a simple site whose content rarely changes, a static website is enough, while a system with complex business logic is often better suited to custom development. A WordPress site also needs regular maintenance.

• Content can be changed without programming: add pages and posts, replace images, edit the menu.
• Maintenance can be handed over to another developer. WordPress is an open-source system that many developers work with. If you have the site’s code, access and the necessary licences, for example for paid plugins, the site’s maintenance can be handed over to someone else.
• Features can be added gradually — with a plugin or custom code, when they are really needed.
• The system itself is free. The costs are development, hosting, paid plugins if needed, and maintenance. More on this in the article Website cost.

• You update the content yourself. For example, the football club Carnikava FK adds training schedules, news and photos to its WordPress website itself.
• You need standard features — contact forms, galleries, a map, a blog, several languages. There are ready-made plugins for these, so there is no need to program from scratch. On the 4mann car workshop website, for example, service requests are saved in WordPress and sent by email at the same time.
• You may need an online store later. WooCommerce runs in the same WordPress, so a store can be added to an existing website. How much of what exists has to be reworked — design, structure, integrations — depends on the store’s requirements.

• The content rarely changes, and no admin panel is needed. A static site has no database and plugins that need regular updating. This is how we built, for example, the website of the basketball club SBK Ādaži.
• You need complex business logic — custom calculations, user roles, integration with an accounting system. If all of this is built from many plugins, the site becomes hard to maintain; then it is often simpler to develop a separate system. A comparison: WooCommerce or Laravel — which to choose for an online store?

• The theme. It determines the look and how the site works on a phone; before launch, the pages need to be checked on different screen sizes.
• Plugins. Choose only the ones you really need, with a good reputation and regular updates, and check that they are compatible with the theme and other plugins. Every plugin is code that has to be maintained.
• SEO. WordPress and SEO plugins help organise titles, descriptions and the sitemap, but your place in search also depends on content and competition — they do not guarantee rankings.
• Maintenance. WordPress, themes and plugins need regular updating, otherwise security risks grow. If you will not do this yourself, you can entrust it to us — see Website maintenance.

Is WordPress secure? The system itself is updated regularly, and known vulnerabilities are fixed. Risks more often come from plugins and themes that are not updated, weak passwords and unsuitable hosting, so security depends largely on maintenance.

Will a WordPress website be fast? Speed depends on the theme, plugins, image sizes, caching and hosting. A WordPress site can be fast, but this has to be set up — it does not happen by itself.

Can I move from WordPress to another system later? Content — pages, posts, images — can be exported. Design and features usually have to be rebuilt in the new system, so moving is a separate project.

Related: Website development · The main components of the WordPress CMS and their advantages · Website maintenance.