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WordPress is an award winning open source software to launch a blog. WordPress has been used by millions of bloggers and companies worldwide. According to an estimate WordPress.org has served more than 65 million downloads since its launch in 2003.
This article means we like WordPress and recommend to others because we think WordPress is a best open source blogging platform. WordPress is widely accepted and reliable open source for blogging and some giant bloggers also use WordPress.

3 Best things about WordPress Open Source software

Easy Administration: WordPress is easy to manage open source blogging platform. Even if a non-professional person reads some tips or looks tutorials of WordPress installation on youtube then he will be able to launch his WordPress blog, though, he may not be able to optimized and start it in very professional way but he can learn and get experience after start using WordPress. So the point is, WordPress is easy to launch, manage and use.  Anyone who uses internet and send and receive email on gmail or yahoo can use WordPress as well.

Plugins and Themes additions: Plugins are functionality add-ons to your WordPress blog. There are thousands of plugins available on the WordPress site to help WordPress users. WordPress and PHP developers also make their own Plugins and sell on different online stores. Similarly WordPress has huge resources of free theme and developers and themes selling sites sell their developed and designed themes on their e-stores.

Search Engine friendly interface: WordPress has the ability to get optimized and search engine friendly. Experienced WordPress bloggers and developers use different techniques and rules to make wordpress blog search engine friendly. Some Plugins for making sitemaps or caching also make WordPress blog search engine friendly and optimized.
Why WordPress is the best?
There are many blogging open source softwares like Open blog, Serendipity, Dotclear, b2evolution, Lifetype, Joomla and Drupal. Though, Joomla and Drupal are also part of Portal category but people also use them for blogging. WordPress is the easiest and coolest option as far as blogging open source software is concerned.
Question is:
Is WordPress really the best Open Source platform to start a blog for Newbie?

Things which make WordPress the Best:

Enhancements and Adaptability: WordPress source has the feature to be enhanced. WordPress bloggers and php developers add and make changes in the WordPress blog according to their needs. WordPress has the ability to be more workable and friendly when it is being used by any professional webmaster or blogger. Web Developers and experienced bloggers make changes in the WordPress blog under fair use policy.

Protection: If you are concerned about safety of your WordPress blog. One thing you should always remember, even big social communities and websites are not safe from hackers, only they can do is to make sure the highest possible security measures are taken on their sites. Similarly big blogs have also been seen hacked, so don’t panic much, there are ways to make your WordPress safe, and I am going to write in the future. You should use some WP security Plugins to secure your WordPress blog.

Interaction: WordPress provides easy interaction with the site admin, authors, contributors and readers. Readers can comment under the posts about their point of view on the article or post that they were reading on the blog. Such discussions also help blogs to grow and increase its worth in the search engines. Plugins of contact page can quickly make a contact form on your blog and inquiry form styled contact form can be made within 5 minutes and you can start receiving emails from the readers and visitors.

Easy Updating: Updating WordPress blog [Self-hosted] is very easy to do. If WordPress releases new version of the WordPress source, then a notification will start giving you the news in your admin area about the recent update and ask you to make backup of your database for safety purpose and then update your WordPress source within 2 minutes.
Community Building: WordPress has its own community building plugin buddypress to convert your wordpress blog into full integrated and well-managed social community. Turn your wordpress blog into social network by installing Buddypress plugin.
- Do you want to stay in touch with high school friends?
- Do you want to bring all your friends on one social website of your own?
- Do you want to start your own discussion board on WordPress?
- Do you want to start your favourite sport discussion board?
- Do you want to invite all friends and people of your society to one online social network?
- Do you want to stay connected with your old friends?

If one of above mentioned points are your concerned and you reached on this article, then you should try buddypress through WordPress.

Ecommerce Solutions: WordPress has a huge collection e-commerce plugins to make an e-shopping site on WordPress self-hosted blog. Are you going to hire Web Developer or planning to go for a web design house to launch your own e-store in $1000? You have to take breathe and give a week to wordpress blog, if you are unable to install your WordPress and don’t know how to integrate domain and hosting, then you can hire a wordpress expert in around 30 to 50$ for installing and making your WordPress blog online. For better results, go to for premium or custom theme to things get started professionally. Premium theme may cost you 40 to 120$ but it will give you benefit of much more than the price.
Above mentioned perspectives describe and elaborate WordPress and its productivity to the readers and bloggers as well. New bloggers should pick WordPress for starting hassle-free blogging.

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Has San Khan is a Blogger and Content Strategist. He loves to write on Blogging, Readers Engagement, Customers Value, Small Businesses and Business Development. He writes on other blogs occasionally.

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