What Makes WordPress the Best Choice for Your Next Website?

WordPress is a versatile and powerful platform that offers numerous advantages over other website builders.

WordPress has a community of developers who care about creating the best plugins and themes for people across the world to develop their websites. Because of this vibrant community, it’s the premier platform for content creators, small businesses, online stores, and whatever type of site you want to make.

As of October 2024, WordPress has the most market share of any CMS, or content management system, available on the market. In the graph below, you can see that WordPress is used for 62.5% of all the websites on the internet.

Graph data source: W3Techs

As you can see, not only is it one of the best ways to bring your ideas to the internet, WordPress comprises nearly half of all websites. This first advantage translates to plenty of support for any business concept that you want to bring into reality. With practically infinite combinations of plugins and customizations, anything you decide to create is well within your reach.

The second advantage that WordPress has over all the other platforms available is cost. WordPress is far more cost-effective than all the other website builders including Wix and Squarespace, especially over time

If you’re just starting out, WordPress offers the most powerful set of tools to build your future. Because you’re not dependent on a company’s pricing tiers to constrain your efforts, you can begin frugally and improve your site according to your needs.

The graph below shows the cost over four years. The cost for WordPress includes:

• Hostinger Hosting (up to 100 websites) – with a domain included
• Divi Theme (unlimited websites)
• 6 months of WP SiteGenius Membership in the first year to create your site and maintain it

The costs at Wix and Squarespace are billed on a monthly basis. Their basic tier of websites includes hosting and a domain. One requires an upgrade to have any site analytics. Although there are paid options, Google Analytics and SEO plugins are open source and free for the functionality you would need to start with WordPress. Most people who make a website are looking to have their site over many years in order to grow their businesses. I’ve included the 4 year costs, with the initial investment.

For online stores, WooCommerce is the plugin needed to create product listing, inventory, and shipping. There are paid add-ons for it, but a store can be built with just the plugin, in addition to hosting and a domain. Here is a thorough article at WooCommerce explaining the prices associated with running an online store with WordPress.

Wix and Squarespace both require upgrades which increase the costs significantly. Shopify has a plan that starts at $39 month, the cost of WordPress hosting, or half the theme cost. Within three months at Shopify, you will have paid for the WordPress hosting and theme… for an entire year.

WordPress has a strong community supporting it, with many developers always working on new themes, plugins, and security from hackers. In my experience, if you ever have an issue with your site, there is an answer somewhere online since the CMS is so ubiquitous. WP SiteGenius offers community forums where you can ask questions and make comments about your building process after following the videos. Share with us on social media what you’ve created online with WordPress!