WordPress is a content management system created on May 27, 2003, developed to create any type of web page. At first it gained great popularity for creating blogs, and later it became one of the main tools for designing webpages at a commercial level.

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that is used to build and design a content web page or an e-commerce for selling products. It is the most widely used content manager. More than 40% of the websites around the world are made with WordPress.

Due to this large number, WordPress is a free and open source software CMS. This means that there is an extensive community of developers behind it, being able to learn about its advantages and disadvantages based on customer’s experiences. In addition, there will always be constant updates and improvements both in the WordPress data base and the plugins. This will allow us to have an adaptable and personalized web design adapting it’s design to the customer needs.

For those who don’t know, plugins are complementary programs that offer great functionality advantages to your website. There are measurement extensions to control the performance of the website, “cache” extensions that save the generated files in memory so as not to saturate the performance, security extensions to protect it from cyberattacks, functions to expand the functioning of the website, SEO, external CRMs to obtain information from your clients, etc.

We can use thousands of plugins to obtain the functionalities we want, but we must keep in mind that these must always be updated, since otherwise they could lose their functionality or cause our website to stop working. We must ensure that our programmer or designer is committed to carrying out proper maintenance and updating all the plugins while the website is active.

For a user who is not familiar with platforms of this type, it can be quite complicated when using it yourself, so the intervention of an expert will be necessary so that your project can go forward without problems. Otherwise you will surely lack the knowledge to solve all the problems that can occur.

WordPress has many advantages, but also disadvantages if is not used correctly. The most important thing is to know in advance what type of project the client needs in order to offer the most appropriate option.

If you embark on a larger project such as an e-commerce site and you also sell many items, the best option is using WordPress, since it’s more expandable and will allow you to add more functions to your website.

It would be crucial for our programmer to use the least amount of plugins possible on a website, since these could slow down the loading time. A plugin is a program that cannot work alone; it needs WordPress or another CMS to work. This means that it is a program that provides additional functions and could increase the size of the data base storage (in this case the data base of WordPress).

All these tasks must be controlled to prevent our website from having speed or security problems, and therefore, losing positions in Google.

It is advisable to be well informed about all the current plugins that exist in order to analyze which one would be the best to incorporate into our project and minimize as much as possible the risks that this would cause when adding a plugin that is not well developed.

In conclusion, WordPress would be an excellent option for E-commerce websites, since there are excellent plugins for SEO, CRM for your store, among others.

Amcodesing, as programmers we are able to create and design personalized plugins for customers that require a personalized solution.