It’s true, with all of the benefits that WordPress offers, there is a lot to love about WordPress. One of the greatest benefits, though, is the ability to pick & choose what you want for your website. Thanks to their almost 7k plugins, the possibilities are limitless!

It’s Free WordPress is an open source platform, meaning that it’s free to download and use. Hundreds, and even possibly thousands, of WordPress themes, or templates as otherwise known, are available for free. There are also many themes available for well under $100, if you want particular designs or a customized theme.

It’s Easy You don’t need HTML knowledge or experience. It’s true, if you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. It a great website creation for non-techies.

It’s Convenient Thanks to WordPress’ online log-in to your own dashboard, you control all of the functions of your website and blog in one easy to understand place. Here you can add and edit both your pages and posts. You can select which theme to use and which plugins to activate for those special functions you always dreamed your website should have.

It’s DIY WordPress welcomes you to the ever popular Do-It-Yourself world. No longer will you have to wait for or pay a web professional to fix, edit or update your site for you. This makes for a great opportunity to save yourself time and money.

It’s Portable WordPress, thanks to its online dashboard, allows you to have multiple users. Now, you don’t have to be the only one who can fix something quickly. You can also access it from anywhere, no need to be in your office or even at your own computer!

It’s Tools at Your Fingertips With WordPress’ excellent maintenance and security tools, keeping up with your WP installation on a daily or weekly basis now only requires a few minutes at a time. There are plugins created for just about any tool that you may need and more are being developed daily.

It’s No Surprises The WordPress system is easy to master, and once mastered, it’s very rare to find any “big surprises.” WordPress is unlikely to astonish you in unpleasant ways, that is, the WordPress crew has mastered The Principle Of Least Astonishment. Some of the problems WP solves are not easy, and they have done as good a job as any software around.

It’s Customizable WordPress can be easily customized, so your design and function capabilities are just about limitless.

It’s Extensible WordPress is very extensible: the plugin API is well-documented and works well, so there is a large and growing ecosystem for plugins.

It’s a Balancing Act You now can and will survive traffic spikes. You can get Slashdotted or Dugg with confidence as they balance your server load and keep your site working inspite of the huge increase in site traffic, whereas a shared hosting site should otherwise crash a server.

It’s Anti-Spam Spam is no problem, when it comes to WordPress. Fighting comment spam will no longer be an issue as preinstalled plugin, Akismet, works hard at blocking spam in the background.

It’s Freedom Freedom from needing to know about upgrades. WordPress not only lets you know, via your dashboard, that there’s a new upgrade, but it offers a quick and super easy one click upgrading option. They are always working to improve and perfect WordPress, so the easy of upgrading is an added plus!

It’s Blogging Simplified Even a kid can get started blogging with a WordPress site, it’s really that easy. If you want to be able to have the latest in websites and you have no idea, or interest, in knowing about what HTML, CSS, PHP, FTP, MySQL… WordPress is for you!

It Rocks WordPress absolutely rocks for providing an easily accessible publishing platform, for both content producers and content consumers.