subject: Hire A Wordpress Developer For Dynamic Websites [print this page] It is a fact that WordPress has broken its own record in terms of publishing websites since last year. In 2011, 25% of the total websites were published in WordPress. The records till March 2012 hold that around 72.4 million sites function on WordPress. With WordPress 3.3 been downloaded for a 12,179,538 times, it becomes a matter of great interest as to why WordPress is the most preferred of the lot. WordPress essentially began as a platform for the bloggers who were least concerned about the technical aspects of the site. Keeping with the growing number of tech savvy people, the blogging platform evolved thereby accommodating more and more tools and technologies for an improved content management. So one must be wondering why WordPress is so preferred. Very clearly, there are some pertinent benefits that clearly stand out in the milieu of emerging content management systems. Any WordPress developer with relevant experience would know about these features. They are:
WordPress enables easy addition of new content. One has to just log-in, write content and then submit.
WordPress empowers people and enterprises to represent their ideas more powerfully through the use of wide variety of templates available.
WordPress offers the flexibility to change the look and feel of the site with a few simple clicks.
WordPress offers an array of plugins that improve the functionality of the site.
To add to the above mentioned benefits, the WordPress is supported by a dedicated community of enthusiastic WordPress developers who constantly are enhancing, improving and adding new features to the platform. Since there is a huge community of developers around and available, it is very important for the enterprises to either hire a WordPress developer from the community or outsource WordPress development to countries like India where the quality of technical expertise is par excellence.
There are five essential things that one needs to create a WordPress site. They are:
Domain name
Web space
Latest version of the platform
A better quality code editor
FTP software
All the necessary paraphernalia listed above would incur cost, so for enterprises whose core function does not revolve round WordPress development can choose to outsource WordPress development for not only cost effectiveness but also for the space to focus on innovation and relevant business functions. Outsourcing also connects the enterprises to domain specialists and helps in deriving better quality work.
The developer community has come up with 11 most important ways of optimizing the WordPress platform, thereby making it all the more necessary for enterprises to hire WordPress developers who are aware of all these. These are as follows:
Implementing caching using W3 Total Cache
Replacing the PHP function against the proper value for site and server
