Author: Ryan Walsh
Date: 20/09/2024

Many web design agencies recommend different content management systems when shopping around for web design quotes. Some may recommend Drupal or HubSpot.

Yet, there are a massive number of web design businesses that specialise in building WordPress websites. This article will explain the main benefits of choosing a WordPress website for your company, whether you want a brochure or an e-commerce website built.
For those who are in a bit of a rush, here are our main seven reasons why we would recommend WordPress:

– Simple to use WP Dashboard
– Simple to find a specialise WordPress web developer
– Huge number of plugins that the customer could later add to their website
– Cost effective
– Widely used by a considerable amount of Welsh businesses
– We can design WordPress brochure websites quickly for our clients
– Some large global brands have also chosen WordPress as their CMS because fantastic websites can be built using WordPress

WordPress can be used for most types of businesses

Whether a construction company or an online luxury clothing retailer, you can often use WordPress as your CMS.
WordPress is widely used by millions of businesses globally.

So, a simple one-page website can be built using WordPress, or you can create a massive e-commerce website with 1000+ pages if you want to.

Simple text changes

So, before you had a website designed by, let’s say, an extensive website design agency that built its very own bespoke CMS, plus it offered no log-in details, you might have had to go through the web designers for all of the amendments, no matter how simple.

However, now with WordPress, what’s possible is that you log in with the admin details, and then there’s a super simple WordPress dashboard where you can edit the text without having any coding knowledge. So, it lets you own a dental practice; you change location but keep the same phone number. Someone in the dental practice with no coding knowledge or knowledge of PHP can log in, select the “page” icon, scroll down to the “contact us” page, and often use the built-in editor to change the text.

Many WordPress websites use two prominent editors: Elementor and WP Bakery Builder. Both are super simple to use, and you can change the text even if you have no coding knowledge at all.

Simple to use

One of the main reasons companies all over Wales use WordPress is its built-in text editor, which is a piece of cake to use. Once the websites have been designed, says a local web designer, you can log in to the WordPress Dashboard with the login details. This is super simple to use, and on every page, you can open the in-built text editor.

With the built-in text editor, you can edit the main text, the titles, the alt text, the meta title and the meta description. You can also return to old blog posts and update them; for example, you might have written “the best ten e-bikes of 2023”.

That article might have accumulated many good-quality backlinks and organic traffic, yet because it’s now out of text, you might want to use the same URL extension and web address but update the article for 2024. That way, you are offering the reader up-to-date information, and because the shopper knows that the information is more up-to-date, that can help reduce the company’s bounce rate.

So, when you hire a search engine optimisation company, they will often write top-quality content marketing, and the author should know about Google E-EAT. I also learned about Google Helpful Content Update. This way, they should write good-quality SEO work, but at the same time, it’s essential that the author goes back and updates the work to ensure that the job is up to date while also aiming to keep that bounce rate as low as possible.

Very versatile

So, what’s important to know is that bloggers do not just use WordPress; it’s also used as a brochure website, and many millions of e-commerce businesses have been built using WordPress.

Plugins

Let’s say the customer wants to add a feature on the contact form to help reduce the amount of spam. So, they use a honeypot spam filter. Well, instead of paying, let’s say, a local web developer to spend hours building a bespoke spam filter, there are thousands of free plugins on WordPress that you can use. This helps the business save money.

So, instead of hiring a local web developer, log into your WordPress Dashboard, go into the Dashboard, select plugins on the side menu, and click Add new plugin. Then, you can search for the plugin you need, whether a new Contact Us form, a slider, or a plugin to help you back your company website.

So, thousands of free plugins are available, which can help the business save a lot of money. In contrast, if it was a bespoke website built using a content management system that the web design agency had built, then all of the changes you want, such as adding a spam filter, because it was a 100% bespoke CMS to that web design agency, you need to have all the changes made by a web developer. So, something as simple as adding a spam filter to the contact form might be rather expensive.

A lot of SEO agencies, like WordPress

When you talk to many SEO agencies, one of the first questions they will often ask the business is, which CMS is the website built on? The reason for this is that some CMS are simple to make changes to, say, URL extension to on-page SEO elements such as H1-H6 tags, meta description and alt text, while some other CMS can be glitchy and problematic to make changes to. So, we included many different web design agencies; they like to work with WordPress because it’s so simple to use and it’s been around for a long time, so just like a good bottle of whiskey, it’s got better and better and better.

Are you planning on managing your WordPress CMS yourself?

If you plan on managing your WordPress CMS yourself, you will find a tremendous amount of support out there. There are countless

YouTube videos from WordPress experts who can help you fix everything from problems with your meta descriptions to
So, WordPress is straightforward to use.

The mobile version of your company website

So, your company website must work well on Android and Apple iPhones. For this to happen, your web designers must design a responsive version of the company website. This is simple to do if you want a WordPress CMS website built. Our web designers can, therefore, design a responsive version of your company website that will work perfectly on tablets and smartphones.

When calling around web designers to obtain a quote for web design, it’s essential to make sure that the price to make the website responsive so that it works well on, say, Apple iPhones or, let’s say, your Samsung Tablet, for example, is included in the quote.

WordPress is affordable

Some content management systems can be pretty expensive. For example, they might not be chosen by start-up companies because the cost of some CMS might be pretty high. Yet with WordPress, it’s very affordable, and the CMS itself is free. So businesses of any size could select WordPress as their content management system, plus there’s no ongoing subscription.

Some content management systems can sometimes have high monthly costs, yet with WordPress, you don’t get this. So, besides the price for the web developers to build and design the website, WordPress doesn’t have any ongoing fees. Many businesses like this because some content management systems can be rather pricey. For example, they could be £75+ a month for some CMS.
Many businesses use WordPress because there are no ongoing costs.

Many businesses also heavily advertise their company, products, and services on social media like Facebook. So, what some businesses do, let’s say a construction business, is their social media feed, which is then fed to a page on the WordPress website. This keeps the page updated. For example, a construction company might be carrying out a large loft conversion, so that page gets updated with pictures of the loft conversion, updating the shopper on the latest construction projects the business manages.