WordPress & WooCommerce
Using the power, scalability and flexibility that WordPress offers, our experienced team of WordPress developers are able to deliver a quality customised solution for your business. We’re the experts in custom WordPress development and web design. Our WordPress developers are the specialists in advanced functionality including membership websites, custom post types and WooCommerce.
If you’re after a website that offers you all the benefits of an open source solution but with the functionality of a shopping cart, then WooCommerce is the best choice for your online shop. Over 18% of the world’s shopping carts are powered by WooCommerce, so you can rest assured you’ll be in good company. At 2ndfuse, we believe that WordPress and WooCommerce are the future of flexible, scalable and affordable websites for small businesses.
6 Reasons Why WordPress and WooCommerce Are The Future
WordPress has been around for a long time as a cost effective content management system that is built using an open source framework. This has resulted in WordPress being used on over quarter of all websites globally – that’s nearly 60 million websites with over 100,000 new WordPress websites popping up every day.
Traditionally, WordPress has been a cheaper alternative to costly custom built websites due to its ability to work with template designs and bolt on plugins that expand its functionality. As more and more businesses use WordPress websites, the functionality and flexibility offered by the platform and its open source community of WordPress developers has grown exponentially
WordPress has evolved from a simple solution for bloggers in need of a website to becoming a robust and scalable solution that is used by some of the world’s leading brands and web developers. With this continued growth, WordPress’ growing capabilities show no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Because of this, we’ve assembled to top five reasons why WordPress and WooCommerce continue to be the go to web development solution for businesses around the world.
WordPress is Open Source
There are multiple content management systems available to build your website on. The majority of these, however are proprietary and therefore require a licence to use which usually involves an annual fee. Not only this, but the company who owns and runs the CMS is responsible for running any security patches, updates or releasing new functionality. This means that proprietary CMS solutions are often costly, unsecure and limited in terms of functionality.
WooCommerce and WordPress Offer The Best Of Both Worlds
WordPress, as one of the leading content management systems offers almost limitless potential for functionality and design options. As a web developer can easily add the official WordPress shopping cart plugin WooCommerce onto an existing WordPress website, this offers business owners the benefits of an e-commerce website with the flexibility of a robust and scalable content management system.
WordPress’ Framework is Scalable
Due to the large open-source community of WordPress web developers, there are constant updates and plugins being released. Plugins are small chunks of software that can be installed on a website which allows another type of functionality to work. For instance, there are plugins for image galleries, registration forms and in the case of WooCommerce, online shopping carts. The vast amount of plugins available to your WordPress developer means you can scale up the functionality of your business’ website at a moment’s notice.
Security and Ease of Updates
WordPress rolls out frequent updates and its large open source community means that security patches for malware are frequently updated. Due to these frequent updates, your WordPress website is much less vulnerable to a cyber-attack than more outdated platforms. Compatibility issues are a thing of the past with WordPress, these regular updates means that your website will display and function as expected even when web browsers and mobile devices update their software.
WordPress Offers Endless Web Design Capabilities
People often mistakenly think that in order to have a WordPress website, you need to choose from the library of pre designed WordPress templates. Due to this perception, business owners who are looking for a full customised solution often overlook WordPress as a suitable framework for their new website. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth- any reputable web designer or web developer will be agree that WordPress is capable of delivering a customised website.
WordPress Puts The User First.
WordPress itself has an intuitive and easy to use interface that most employees will find easy to use. In comparison to other cumbersome website and eCommerce CMS interfaces, WordPress requires little training and is easy to roll out to team members who will be updating the website on a regular basis. The well known WordPress plugin called SEO by Yoast is renowned for making on page search engine optimisation (SEO) user friendly, which means your team of employees can confidently manage your business’ day-to-day SEO services and strategy in-house.