We will proceed to the migration of our servers towards a new, more reliable and faster infrastructure. This migration is done transparently and guarantees you no interruption or loss of data.

Thanks to this migration, the Mister Hosting web hosting packages are evolving and you will now enjoy many more benefits. You now have an update of the Apache version and the latest stable version of MySQL. This infrastructure change also allows you to benefit from a new cloud infrastructure for more speed and flexibility as well as Dedicated performance guarantees CPU, and RAM or even more no limitation of the number of files. All our servers allow you to enjoy Raid 10 SSD storage to increase speed and performance for your website.

WHAT CHANGES TO MISTER HOSTING WEB HOSTING?

The Mister Hosting web hosting formulas will therefore have some changes in their characteristics. Here’s what’s changing:

• The Starter Plan becomes the Basic Plan. She goes from 100 GB Disk Space to 300 Go and its price goes from 1,50 € / month to 1,99 € / month.
• The Pro Plan becomes the Business Plan. She goes from 250 GB disk space to unlimited space. Its price remains the same.
• The Dev Plan becomes the Gold Plan. Features and price remain unchanged.

WHY CHOOSE MISTER HOSTING WEB HOSTING?

Are you hesitating between shared hosting, with cPanel or WordPress? Discover our comparative web hosting which allows you to know the difference between all our formulas and which one to choose!

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CHECK THE AVAILABILITY OF A DOMAIN? WHO OWNS THIS DOMAIN?

A domain name is a kind of unique key. It is delivered to one person only the time he wants to exploit it and until he decides to abandon it. A domain name can not be attributed to two different people.For example, if you wish register a domain name mister-hosting.com, no domain name reseller will authorize you because it is taken.

However, if a person abandons a domain name, it is quite possible for another person to acquire it, after a few formalities of course. This means that if we do not want to renew the subscription of the domain name mister-hosting.com, you can buy it for you from any reseller, after the grace period that will be granted.

The first step is to check if the domain is takenand who owns the domain. You can check if a domain is available on our registration page. Locate the field “Find the ideal domain name” and enter the one you want to buy. This functionality is actually used to check if the word (or string) that you have inserted, to which it adds several extensions, already exists as a domain name or not. You will have a result with several lines, with all the domain names related to what you entered, with the words “Available” or “Not available”.

However, this feature gives you only one information: the availability or not of a domain name. If you want more details on a domain name, visit the sites Whois. They are actually many. This free service is offered by the internet registers. These websites inform you who the domain is, since when, which hosting service is attached to …

BUY A DOMAIN NAME ON MISTER HOSTING

Buying a domain name is easy on Mister-hosting. The result page that we have seen previously is the first stage. From the list, you must then choose the domain name that suits you. You will notice that you can directly change your domain name on the top field, which allows an immediate update of the result without going through the “Search” button. Click on the small box to the right of the one you have chosen and a small window will appear on the right side of the screen. Note that you can choose several from the list that is offered to you. Then click on the “Continue” button of your selection and you will be redirected to the second page.

Once your domains are chosen, you have access to several parameters. In the “Formula” section, for example, you have the option to choose between a single domain name or a pack that also includes hosting packages. On your right is what you need to pay for your domain name (or your domain names and accommodation formulas included). Finally, you must go to the base of the page to find the button “Validate”. Once you clicked on this button, you will be redirected to the payment page.Once this last step is completed, you have successfully completed your purchase of an internet address and it is valid for one year.

WHY CHOOSE MISTER-HOSTING?

A domain name is everywhere the same, regardless of the provider chosen. What is different with Mister Hosting is the free pack that accompanies your domain name. For example, you benefit from 2 GB hosting even if you have subscribed to a domain name alone, to host a site html / css alone. You benefit from two email addresses with a responsive interface, unlimited subdomains, redirection services … In addition, your domain name is available in less than an hour. In addition, if you have any problem or information needs, a Support service is available 24 h on 24, 7 days on 7.

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WHAT IS WEB HOSTING?

So that your website is available at all times for its visitors, it must be hosted on a remote server.The latter is accessible 24h on 24, with the optimal conditions of traffic and connection.

It exists different kinds of web hosting. The most common currently, however, areshared hosting, dedicated server and cloud hosting.

We are talking about a dedicated server when a machine that is in a local of a host is rented to you. You can manage all the resources related to this machine, such as the storage volume, the technology used … However, a server has too much capacity that the cost quickly becomes excessive, especially for medium sized websites such as blogs or showcases. This is why we talk about shared hosting.

With this type of accommodation, the server itself is shared between multiple users and several websites. The cost is much more affordable since it is also shared. In this case, the management of the server is the responsibility of the entity that leases it.

Finally, a virtual hosting is the latest type of accommodation if you want to buy a web hosting. As the name suggests, vyour website is hosted on a server located on the cloud. The virtual server is actually composed of several physical servers that form a sort of super server that will be shared later by multiple users on the cloud.

HOW TO FIND THE BEST CHEAP WEB HOSTING?

Accommodation packages are offered by commercial companies. It follows that the offers available on the market are formulated according to a competitive logic. There will therefore necessarily be significant differences between suppliers. If you are looking for the best cheap accommodation, you must know its few points.

First, some hosts offer cheaper, but more limited offers (in terms of storage capacity, bandwidth, functionality …). From this point of view, there is even free accommodation. But again, it all depends on the actual needs of your website. It can happen that you need only very few resources. In that case,why pay more? Especially that your host offers you the opportunity to upgrade to a higher offer at any time, as soon as you need a little more resources.

On the other hand, some hosts have the possibility ofdisplay very advantageous prices thanks to the concept of “cloud”. By hosting your site on the cloud, you benefit from a logic: only the resources that your site uses are allocated to you and invoiced. And in the event of an increase in needs, access to additional resources is instantaneous. Unlike conventional accommodations where resources are allocated to you initially, that you must pay even if in the end you did not use them.

WHAT FEATURES TO CHECK BEFORE BUYING A CHEAP WEB HOSTING?

As we have already mentioned, suppliers offer different kinds of formulas as attractive as each other. However, be sure to choose an accommodation that ensures at least 50 GB storage space of which at least 10 GB for MySQL databases, then 5 email addresses and FTP access secured. The best hosts today offer unlimited resources, it’s almost always the best option.

Apart from the technical side, you must also choose your supplier wisely. Because some prices too advantageous hide bad suppliers. Who are they ? These are providers who sublease virtual private servers, but who do not respect the terms of the contract or who do not offer a satisfactory support service compared to real professionals for example. There are even hosting providers that disappear without warning, swallowing your site at the same time. Fortunately, the le-discussion forums provide us with the information we need. Internet users denounce bad suppliers and never tire of giving good marks to the most deserving.

One last point: some providers offer complementary services, such as automatic site creation software, SEO tools … These tools may correspond to a slightly higher price, but may be necessary

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SKRILL: WHAT IS IT?

Skrill is an application that allows you to manage your money as you see fit. You pay or withdraw your money as you see fit wherever you are. With the Skrill app, you simply use it from your smartphone, tablet or computer. You access your money from anywhere.

WHY USE SKRILL?

Ideal for all your paymentsSkrill allows you to manage your money simply. And settle your transactions in peace. Own an electronic wallet as Skrill is a very advantageous solution for managing your money. By the way Skrill is a means of payment very secure regulated by Ewallet regulations(electronic money). Which means that your payments are protected by the monitoring an anti-fraud team within Skrill.

By opening a Skrill account, you benefit from:

• of the discreet and secure transactions
• A effective management your money dedicated to your online payments
• The mobile application Skrill
• MasterCard Skrill

HOW TO PAY WITH SKRILL ON MISTER-HOSTING.COM?

To pay for your Skrill transactions, simply go to the website mister-hosting.com. Select the formula of your choice then proceed to the payment by selecting “Skrill”.

WHAT ARE THE OTHER WAYS OF PAYING ON MISTER-HOSTING.COM?

As a reminder, all orders on the site Mister-Hosting.com can be set according to your preferences by:

• Credit card
• Debit on your credit card each month (ideal to avoid any risk of forgetting and suspension of services)
•   Paypal

I hope this new payment method suits you, do not hesitate to send us your opinion in comment 🙂

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WHY CHOOSE A FREE WEBSITE HOSTING?

Choose a free hosting, it is especially not being able or not wanting to pay a subscription on its site. This can be a good idea when you start a blog, and you yourself have not decided where exactly you are going. Indeed, paying a one-year service for a project that you may be abandoning after a few weeks is not a good thing.

However, it is also important to understand what is free hosting. Ask yourself: How can a hosting provider offer free hosting? Know then thatThere are two main reasons for a provider to offer this type of subscription : it will broadcast on your site advertisements and other contents that make him earn money to offset the cost of hosting your website; or it offers free offers for commercial reasons, which will usually encourage you to switch to their paid offers.

For Mister Hosting, lfree website hosting consists of a free discovery during 1 months of its services. During 1 months, you are entitled to all features, just as if you had paid a subscription.

FREE HOSTING VS PAID HOSTING

Do you need web hosting? How to choose between a paid offer and a free offer?

Free hosting has like main benefit of being free. But you must comply with some restrictions or advertisements on your site. For a good start on the web, to test products or content … free hosting can be a good solution. However, the direct consequence of the restrictions is sometimes more work in the design and management of the site. Indeed, when the free formula offers for example a version of pHp or MySql earlierit may happen that you have to adapt your codes.

Un paid hosting has this benefit of offering more features, and therefore better management. Otherwise, Google does not like free hosted sites. Indeed, a blogger who would be willing to pay for his site for example has more credibility than a blogger who chose a free hosting. And some readers are also able to do the same reasoning if they have the means to know if your site was hosted free or not.

In addition, the servers used for the free offers are often less efficient. Indeed, these servers are most often saturated, because of the number of sites that share the resources. Even if your provider specifies that you have unlimited resources, the speed of the server for example will depend on the number of queries launched at the same time for all sites on the same server. Which can become disabling to a certain extent.

HOW TO CREATE A FREE WEBSITE WITH MISTER HOSTING?

As we saw above, the formula proposed by Mister Hosting allows you to discover all of our services free for a month. By choosing this offer, your site will not include any advertising and you will be entitled to Cpanel for its good management. As a paid subscriber, you will be entitled to 7 days support on 7. Go to the page Free Hosting from Mister Hosting.

You are entitled to three different formulas: M Start, L Business and XL Premium. Of course, all three are free. But these three formulas correspond to the formula on which your subscription will switch after the first free month. You will find on this page the details of each offer. Then click on the “Order” button corresponding to the offer you have chosen.

Mister Hosting will first ask you for your domain name. Do you have a domain name? Would you like to buy a domain name from 0,99 €? You can also skip this step and adjust that detail later or keep a domain you already have.

Further, Mister Hosting will ask you to pay an invoice corresponding to a commitment of 12 months, including the first month to 0 €. You will then be entitled to 30 days to retract if you are not satisfied with the services of Mister Hosting. In this case, we will return your money in full.

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Everyone is then free to choose their domain name. However, because of its uniqueness, you can not choose a domain name already used by another person. So, it is necessary to check the availability of a domain name first of all.

CHOOSE AN AVAILABLE DOMAIN NAME

Why talk about “Availability” of a domain name ? Simply because domain is unique. A domain name is a succession of letters, adopted to facilitate access to a website for internet users, if at the beginning the addresses of the websites consisted of a succession of digits better known under the name of IP address. A website corresponds to a single IP, and therefore a unique domain name. Thus, it is not possible to choose a domain name already used.

A domain name consists of three parts: prefix, domain and suffix. If we take the example of www.mister-hosting.com, “.Com” is the suffix or first level, “mister-hosting” is the domain or the second level, and “www” is the prefix or 3^e level. From an availability point of view, the most important is the second level. It is this part that you will use for the popularity of your site and for your image. However, the association between the first two levels is also of paramount importance. Indeed, in theory, mister-hosting.fr for example is a domain name different from the original. So you have the option to choose it, even if mister-hosting.com already exists, provided of course that it is available in turn. Moreover, the 3^e level does not really matter. You can not choose mapage.mister-hosting.com for example, since everything is played at the level of the first two levels.

CHECK THE AVAILABILITY OF A DOMAIN NAME

So, how to make sure that a domain name already used or not? It’s not rocket science to know him! Just go to a website that offers this service, for free in most cases. To find one, just do a Google search for example. Otherwise, the majority of sites specializing in accommodation and domain names offer this service. Indeed, before to reserve a domain name, you must make sure that it is still available. And this is a step that the supplier imposes before allowing you to move forward in the buying process.

You can also learn more about a domain name with the Whois tools “. These tools, also free, inform you about a domain name (owner, contact of the latter, date of creation and expiry date of the subscription in progress …). Of course, these same tools warn you if the domain name is still available.

In addition, be aware that a domain name belongs to a person for one year. You have the possibility to renew this lease. However, when a domain name has expired and is abandoned by its owner, it falls into the public domain and is reachable for everyone. This time again, it is the law of the first comer which prevails.

IN CONCLUSION: HOW TO FIND A FREE DOMAIN NAME?

Go to the domain name reservation page of our site. From there, you have the possibility to choose between two methods. The first is to press the button “Order! “. The site will then guide you to a new page. On the left, enter your desired domain name, and press the button “Check availability”. The second method is to use the field “Find the ideal domain name”. This feature prompts you to enter the desired domain name in the field and will offer you in return the choices available in relation to the different extensions. If the domain is already in use, even in another extension, this feature gives you information about them marking in red.

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NEWGTLD: WHAT IS IT?

To understand what are the New gTLD, let’s start by explaining what the TLD is for a domain. In French, it is most often called “Top level domain” or extension. TLD is actually the abbreviation for “Top Level Domain”.

Take as an example the site www.mister-hosting.com. The top-level domain is “.com”. Why do we speak of the first level? The “.com” is shared by hundreds of sites if the second level, “mister-hosting” for our example, is specific to our site. You can consider a top-level domain as a sort of site category. And there are several: .com, .fr, .film, etc.

There are several types of TLDs. However, we will retain the three most common:

• gTLD : the first generic top-level domains
• nTLD or New gTLD: new generic top-level domains
• ccTLD : National Top Level Domains

The first three generic levels soundt .com, .net and .org. The list has been extended several times to 2013, where the latest extensions have appeared. These are the latter included in the category of nTLDs or New gTLDs.

In contrast, ccTLDs or national top-level domains are associated with countries, such as .fr for France, .be for Belgium, .uk for Great Britain…

WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT NEW AREAS?

The appearance of new gTLDs or nTLDs responds to two very simple logics:saturation of the first gTLDs and the need to create new segmentation axes for websites.

The first gTLDs were quickly saturated. There are millions of websites today, and three gTLDs are far from enough. Thus during the 2000 years, a good dozen gTLDs were created and in 2013another larger group followed.

But the arrival of New gTLDs has also allowed a better segmentation of activities. Given the saturation of .com (commercial activities) for example, the use of .travel for travel agencies is advisable, as is the .museum for museums. It is true that a domain name with a clear extension is easier for a user to understand. On the other hand, SEOs can only be satisfied since much of their work is done right away by extending their web suite.

THE NEW EXTENSIONS CLASSIFIED IN 9 CATEGORIES ACCORDING TO YOUR PROFESSION:

There are hundreds of New gTLDs, which can be categorized into 9 categories:

• Business : groups gTLDs by business sector like .broker, .consulting, .holdings …
• Trade : also groups gTLDs by business sectors, usually commercial, such as .auto, .casino or .clothing.
• GeoTLD : groups geographic gTLDs (different from ccTLDs), such as .aquitaine, .london or .vegas.
• IDNTLDS : gathers together “international” gTLDs that do not use the standard TLD alphabet that is Latin.
• Hobbies : groups gTLDs representing leisure activities, such as .film, .holiday or .guitars.
• originals : groups gTLDs “original” or difficult to classify in the other categories like .hiv, .love or .xyz.
• service : gTLDs for sites in service areas, such as .cab for taxis, .house or .ong.
• Lifestyle : groups lifestyle gTLDs like .adult, .life or .singles for singles.
• Technology : groups gTLDs for sites evolving in new technologies like .email, .host for web hosts or .tech.

WHY CHOOSE A NEW EXTENSION INSTEAD OF A GENERIC EXTENSION?

Consider nTLDs as a new category in which your site will evolve. From a business point of view, the choice to adopt an nTLD corresponds to a choice of segmentation of its customers. Being closer to your final target, you will be able to adapt your communication strategy to make it more effective and have a better return.

Of course, the results that will be displayed by search engines will include both sites with classic gTLDs and those that will evolve with New gTLDs. However, the latter will be perceived as “specialized sites” unlike “more generic sites” by Internet users.

Studies have shown that the CTR (Clic Through Rate) or simply the click rate of a site with a more explicit extension has grown significantly in recent years. This has been confirmed with ccTLDs, when Internet users prioritize the sites corresponding to their country.

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MORE RESOURCES FOR YOUR WORDPRESS E-COMMERCE SITE

However, before thinking about plugins and different tools to build your website, you must understand that an e-commerce site WordPress needs more resources than a classic website. If you want to be successful in your business, for example, you have to make sure that your site can meet a significant need in terms of traffic. This translates to more server power and bandwidth. Which can also mean no restriction on the part of your host. In the same way, an online sales site is most often composed of pages containing a lot of product images. This can be a problem if it does not have a large storage capacity. You should review these small details with your hosting provider such as Mister Hosting, if you have already chosen one.

THE WOOCOMMERCE PLUGIN

when you have installed WordPress (no integrated e-commerce module) on your hosting server, you have to switch to thenext step in building your website, the choice and installation of the plugin. A number of plugins exist for e-commerce on the WordPress site or on one of the community sites. The choice is so difficult and depends mainly on your own needs and your type of business. Just know thata good plugin should allow your visitors to perform the most basic actions for this type of sitesuch as product consultation, searches, transferring a product to the shopping cart and the means to pay safely. On the other hand, this plugin must also allow you to manage your store, your products, your orders, your money and your customers. Finally, do not forget to consider other performance criteria, such as the loading time of your pages or the means of displaying your products.

Note that the best plugin for your e-commerce site WordPress is called WooCommerce. This tool represents approximately 20% market share of e-commerce sites, and that by putting it in competition, not only with WordPress plugins, but with all the CMS specialized in e-commerce. WooCommerce is a full plugin that offers most of the most important features you’ll need. In addition, like all WordPress plugins, you benefit from a large community that can provide you with additional features for specific needs, assistance and personalized advice in case of trouble … To install WooCommerce, simply download and install it, free of charge. You must then check that the features you need are available on WooCommerce. If this is not the case, a little research and discussion on the forums is required.

A WORDPRESS E-COMMERCE SITE IN YOUR IMAGE AND THAT OF YOUR PRODUCTS

The second step is to create a design and a visual identity to your image and that of your products. If you want to put online a business that exists in real life, you can only use and extend your current identity for your website. Of course, additional design work will always be necessary. If you create a website before finding products to sell, as in the case of dropshipping, creative work starts from scratch, which means more creative work that can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the point of view.

CREATE PRODUCTS ON YOUR E-COMMERCE SITE WORDPRESS

Adding your products is surely the longest part of building your e-commerce site. Do not neglect any detail! Product names, prices, specifications … we must not make mistakes. These products are the cornerstone of your site. This involves taking interesting and compelling photos to get customers to buy your products. It also means write convincing product descriptions that will meet expectations while pushing them to buy.

THE “ANNEXES” PAGES OF YOUR WORDPRESS STORE

These are called “Annex page”, but they are very important for your site. It is about here to put your visitors in trust, to inform them about you and your products, and to inform them of the terms of sale, the means of payment … These pages are called “About Us”, “Terms of Use”, “Contact Us” … they should not be left to chance.

THE LAUNCH OF YOUR E-COMMERCE WEBSITE WORDPRESS

If you already have a business that works, the easiest way is to announce to your current customers the existence of your websitethrough more conventional means such as e-mails, point-of-sale advertisements … so that they can now approach you through your site. If your goal is to sell across your site or search for new customers, you have to make yourself known through sales and communication techniques on the internet, better known as webmarketing. There are several tools and techniques that you can use. However, the most important ones can be classified into two categories: SEO and SEA.

Search engine optimization or SEO will have for goal of placing your site at a higher ranking sites in search results (mainly from Google). The SEA on the other hand groups of techniques having as objective to reinforce the popularity of your Internet site on the social networks. And of course, classical techniques such as mailing campaigns or other forms of visual communications can still be used, depending on your products.

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WHY IS THE LAYOUT OF YOUR MAIN PAGE IMPORTANT ON A WORDPRESS BLOG?

In many cases, visitors find your WordPress site from a link contained on another web page of another site, or from a response to a query on a search engine. Indeed, we assume that we are talking here about a blog, and that visitors came to your site related to a particular topic. This is how on a blog,every page is very important. If the visitor likes your content, he will continue the visit by going directly to the main page, and this is where he will decide whether or not he will linger on your site or not.

THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS FOR A WORDPRESS BLOG

The homepage of a blog has the primary role of inform the reader about the main theme conveyed through the different pages. However, there is no point in write a text of several hundred wordsa few tens are enough. Of course, this text must be keyword rich and follow the main rules in SEO.

But the most important part is the links to the different pages of your blog WordPress. THEthe reason for being a blog is indeed contained in these different pages, which convey different subjects on a specific theme. The homepage must therefore contain links that point to these different pages, more precisely the most important. Usually, the last new pages are listed first, but this is not an absolute rule.

It is important to focus on readability and ease of clicking on each item. In general, it is important to highlight them to allow visitors to quickly click on them. You can also attract visitors through link-titles that speak, but you can very well put summaries or pictures. This association title – summary – image is indeed very used and appreciated on WordPress blogs.

3 BLOG LAYOUTS THAT YOU CAN USE IN WORDPRESS

Of course, you have the Right to arrange and design your homepage according to your wishes. But here we present 3 types of themes, among the most used, which take up the association title – summary – image mentioned above.

1. Arrangement in lists of messages

A list remains the simpler and easier to read. A layout based on a list is usually a simple vertical succession of blog posts, which includes their titles, featured images and short excerpts from each. Each item in the list usually occupies the entire space between the two columns “left” and “right” of the page. This style may seem basicbut it offers lots of benefits.

A WordPress homepage based on a list:

• Is easy to read and facilitates navigation. The reader can quickly browse articles (mostly sorted in chronological order).
• Respect the tradition. Yes, everyone is used to this style of navigation. In addition, it is very suitable for mobile devices.
• Suitable for any screen width. Which is a more important since readers today use a multitude of screen resolutionsranging from small screens of mobile devices to large computer screens.

This style is used by many blogs. And “The simplest is often the best”. On the other hand, using this style of layout, there are fewer problems with updates of WordPress and its components.

2. Layouts based on grids or maps

For Grid or map layouts are modern and allow you to display many more messages on one page. How is it? Maps or grids are presented side by side on the homepage using a title, an image and a small excerpt.

A WordPress homepage based on a grid:

• Offers more space. The side-by-side approach allows readers to display multiple tickets on the main page when compared to a list.
• Offers more possibilities for customization. You can not only play with the design of the cards, but also that of the background and the interaction of the grids on it.

It’s important to specify that a layout based on grids works more with a logic : draw the reader’s attention by the pictures. Which is slightly different with the list style where the title (and sometimes the excerpt) prevails. it is only a logic based more on a habit than on a real logic. Just note that you should not put too many texts (extracts) in the cards to avoid overloading the presentation. This is how it is normal to focus a little more on images.

3. Masonry of cards

Arrangements in masonry style cards are becoming more common nowadays. It’s about a variant of the grid design. However, this time, the cards have different sizes. The first row is arranged in the same way. On the other hand, each card of the second row is placed where the cards above stop. So that the cards of the second row are not placed on the same line. In the end, we have the impression that the cards are arranged in the manner of a brick wall, hence the term ” masonry “.

A WordPress home page based on a masonry style:

• Is simply very beautiful to see (regardless of the general design of the site)
• Gives the reader a “modern” impression for your site. Indeed, this style abandons the idea of ​​the classic that can offer a grid for example.

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Nowadays, WordPress actually holds about 25% of market share among the hundreds of CMS that exist. Note, however, that these numbers are only estimates. Indeed, no real solid base allows to define exactly the number of sites using WordPress. The only known data is the number of WordPress downloads that are close to reaching the 150 million of times. For comparison, Drupal which is the 2^eon this list holds just over 15 million downloads. In addition, there are currently download 2 000 themes and 27 000 WordPress plugins.

WordPress is an open source CMS that originated in 2003. Its strength lies in the great community that supports him, able to bring powerful new features to every major update, without neglecting plugins and themes. He became one of the most powerful, versatile, robust and user-friendly CMS that exists.

But really, why is WordPress so popular?

1. A FREE AND OPEN SOURCE CMS

The fact that WordPress is completely free has greatly contributed to its success. Free and open source, it is both a financial benefit to the user and an assurance of the motivations and performance of the community working behind it. Available for download absolutely free, it is not difficult to find. Most web hosts like Misterhosting for example, install the latest version of WordPress directly on your server with a single click, without any additional cost.

But in addition, most of the themes and plugins are free, despite some exceptions. If you have advanced knowledge in web, the source code is at your disposalyou can transform it as you please. If you need help installing or customizing your WordPress site, you have a whole community that can answer your question nicely, and for free, through hundreds of forums on the internet.

2. WORDPRESS PLUGINS

Not only are they free, but they are also very varied. Each user can customize his site as he wishes thanks to the plugins, very easy to install and implement. But the strength of WordPress plugin, it is their ability to operate autonomously, which means that users can use several according to their needs. Plugins can also be updated independently of the central kernel and vice versa, without the changes causing any problems to your site. And even if these rare cases happen, the need for maintenance is generally not very significant. But besides, you still have the possibility to modify the plugins since these are also open source, except of course for paid plugins (except for some after acquitting the license).

Here are some examples of plugins available for WordPress: photo slideshows, social media, forms, SEO, caching, security, e-commerce.

3. WORDPRESS THEMES

La availability of many themes (free and paid) has also made the popularity of WordPress. In addition, it is not you do not have to be a big connoisseur of web languages ​​to install a theme. You just have to download it, put it in the folder indicated and designate it in the parameters of your site. For a novice user, who only has the theme to customize for their website, this mode of operation is ideal. Even a novice web designer could make a professional website in a few minutes.

Most of the themes that the community currently offers are complete, from a visual and feature point of view. The themes are lightweight, built according to the recommendations and templates offered by WordPress himself. Themes are also (most of the time) tested and rated by other members of the community so you do not waste time with poor quality themes.

4. EASE OF USE

Anyone, even without basic knowledge of HTML or CSS, can build and maintain a site in minutes using WordPress. Just download it, install it, set up a few lines and you have a website that works. A default theme is even integrated and installed to allow you to go to the essentials of your settings, waiting to find better. Only basic features are installedbut they are good enough for the simplest version of your website. You can then customize it with themes and plugins on the internet. This has revolutionized the way the web works.

5. CMS VERSATILITY

At its beginnings, WordPress has been a CMS oriented blog. But with the arrival of many features, WordPress is suitable for the creating all types of imaginable websites. For example, if you want to set up an ecommerce site, you have the possibility to install the WooCommerce plugin.

6. SEO FRIENDLY

A very most web users do not understand how SEO works and why it’s so important And yet, this topic has become unavoidable nowadays, if you want your website to be visible.

WordPress has a note of 99% SEO friendly, without you having changed anything. It is well designed and easily adapts to search engine explorations. Your WordPress site loads very quickly, compliant with UX and coding standards, facilitates image optimization, includes tools to simplify social media integration and generate XML sitemaps.

In addition, there are plugins dedicated to SEO. The most popular is surely Yoast, a plugin that instantly analyzes your SEO score every time you enter a new page or blog post. And once again, Yoast is accessible to a novice.

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