{"id":154,"date":"2018-02-14T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tenthplanet.in\/?p=154"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:07:08","slug":"why-wordpress-and-not-website-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/why-wordpress-and-not-website-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Why WordPress and not website builders?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because at this point there are no better\/easier ways to build a website\u2026 But more importantly:<\/p>\n

#1. It\u2019s totally FREE, with many layouts\/themes to choose from.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#2. It\u2019s VERY beginner-friendly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#3. Small or large site? Great for both.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#4. Your site will be \u2018responsive\u2019. Meaning it\u2019ll work on mobiles & tablets, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

#5. HUGE support and developer community available to help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before start worrying about colour schemes and domain name and web hosting, we have got to decide what platform going to build our website with.<\/p>\n

What is \u201cplatform\u201d?<\/h2>\n

Well, back in 2005, most sites were built using HTML (code), CSS and even Flash. These took a lot of time to learn and were tricky to master. That\u2019s why most people still think creating a website from scratch is difficult or requires a lot of coding and design skills \u2013 but that\u2019s no longer true!<\/p>\n

Now content management systems (CMS) like WordPress have made creating a website accessible to everyone. To put simply, a content management system (or website building platform) is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your own online content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML pages.<\/p>\n

Most Popular Site Building Platforms in 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As you can see from the graph above, nearly half of the websites on the Internet are running on the WordPress website platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

we have got to decide what platform going to build our website with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}