WordPress as a CMS? Why we say ‘Yes’!

You’ll love using Word­Press as a CMS to update your website

Recent stat­ist­ics show that Word­Press has become the most com­mon CMS (Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem) with 54% of mar­ket share.

“Just as we say Google when we mean Search Engine, it can’t be long before we just use
Word­Press to mean
Con­tent Man­age­ment System”.

Twenty­four­ten are now offer­ing Word­Press cus­tom­isa­tion as a ser­vice to our clients.

• Do you need to update and cre­ate your web­site con­tent easily?
• Do you want to integ­rate your Social Net­work ser­vices seam­lessly with your website?
• Do you want to have the best SEO con­trol pos­sible from dir­ectly within your CMS?
• Do you want fur­ther fea­tures and func­tion­al­ity to be easy to add in to your web­site later?

Then the Word­Press pub­lish­ing plat­form act­ing as your CMS sounds like some­thing you should consider.

Bespoke CMS

If you are a cli­ent of Twenty­four­ten, you’ll most likely have some sort of CMS which lets you edit your web­site pages. Your CMS is prob­ably ‘bespoke’ mean­ing it was made to meas­ure, built lov­ingly with just your site in mind.

With a bespoke CMS there are no fea­tures present that you don’t need or don’t under­stand, it just does exactly what you want it to do and it does it simply and eas­ily. Our repu­ta­tion has been built upon provid­ing our cli­ents pre­cisely this kind of con­trol over their web­sites dur­ing the last ten years.

The only down­side to a bespoke CMS is that by it’s very nature of being hand coded to suit a cli­ents indi­vidual needs they can take time to develop and when any new func­tion­al­ity or fea­tures are required the CMS needs to be adap­ted to allow the updat­ab­il­ity and con­trol of those new features.

For some pro­jects a bespoke CMS may still be the best choice, and we will of course con­tinue to sup­port our cli­ents who have an exist­ing bespoke CMS, but a Word­Press CMS allows us to offer cli­ents the option of using an altern­at­ive Open Source option.

Open Source CMS

In con­trast to build­ing a tra­di­tional bespoke CMS, using an Open Source CMS such as Word­Press can be much more cost-effective. The basic Word­Press applic­a­tion is free, though you would still need a web design com­pany like Twenty­four­ten for the Word­Press cus­tom­isa­tion; set­ting up the func­tion­al­ity com­bined with styl­ing Word­Press to have the look and feel as agreed as part of the design process.

The Word­Press developer com­munity are con­stantly com­ing up with func­tion­al­ity plug-ins which extend the basic Word­Press blog­ging plat­form. There are Plug-ins for; e-Commerce, for­ums, events, job boards, gal­ler­ies, forms and many other types of fea­tures, they can be added often for free — this is a major advant­age a Word­Press CMS has over a bespoke CMS.

If you’d like to dis­cuss with us CMS require­ments for your web­site, please get in touch.