Why WordPress?

121 hosting has chosen to align our hosting service with the WordPress platform. We believe WordPress is the website content management system of the future. Using WordPress, you can easily maintain and update an accessible and SEO friendly website on your own, and rather than having to hassle with installing the platform on your own — we do it for you. If you’re unfamiliar with the WordPress, here are a few more reasons to consider using the platform:

Content Management

WordPress allows for easy management of your website content. As with any new software there is a minor learning curve involved, but after a very short time it’s as simple as managing a Facebook page. Rather than paying a firm or freelancer to constantly update your site, you can now make changes instantly yourself. That saves you a great deal of time and money.

Search Engine Optimization

WordPress is designed to be very search engine friendly. Meaning, your Google rankings will generally be higher than many other types of websites. The more people that find your website, the more traffic and exposure you will gain. In addition, plugins such as the “All in One SEO Pack” can greatly help your search engine optimization as well. Which brings me to my next point…

Plugins

If you want any kind of feature for your site, a WordPress plugin probably exists for it. There are plugins for web advertising, flickr, twitter, e-commerce, newsletters, weather, surf reports, RSS feeds, SEO, Google Analytics and so many more it’s ridiculous. Many of these plugins are developed as “widgets” that can easily be added to your site using a drag and drop system within the WordPress content management system.

Themes

We all grow tired of our website appearance over time, but changing the design has always been a hassle — until now. With Free WordPress Themes, you can change the site design as if you were changing clothes. Meanwhile, all of the content remains the same. There’s no hassle of copying and pasting all of your content to a new site.

Blogs

Until recently, WordPress was most widely known as a blogging platform. However, it’s ease of use and updates to the WordPress engine have made it the perfect tool for managing entire websites, not just blogs. That being said, blogs are naturally integrated in to WordPress powered websites and a great way to attract visitors to your website.

Cost Effective

Although WordPress can be downloaded for free, the hassle of installing the framework, setting up hosting, purchasing a domain, designing and developing a theme and installing plugins can often be very time consuming to those unfamiliar with the process. With 121 Hosting, we handle it all for you. Meaning you can be up and running with a professional content managed website for a low monthly fee.

These are only a few of the many perks to having a WordPress powered website hosted with 121 Hosting.