First Published - September 15, 2013
WordPress Business Websites … not just for blogs
Think WordPress, you think blog platform, yeh? Not so fast, many millions of businesses now think WordPress for Business!
WordPress has been developed since 2003 and soon became one of the largest blogging platforms in the world. However very soon after the original release WordPress began to be used by businesses too, not only to use as a blog but to power websites. An example of a WordPress for Business website, is the one you are reading now. This website has been run as a WordPress for Business website for over 7 years.
A WordPress Business Website not only for blogs but for business websites too.
Today WordPress isn’t just one of the top blogging platforms in the world, it has become the content management software of choice for business websites the world over.
Here are just a few reasons why businesses today in their millions are choosing to run a WordPress Business Website
1) Ease of Use.
A WordPress Business Website is really easy to use, with a simple interface similar to Word. Adding and editing new pages is simple, quick and efficient. Because the system is so kept simple, little time is needed to produce a really nice piece of business website content.

Freedom to add content from even a smart phone
2) Not tied to one Computer
A WordPress Business Website ensures you can manage or add your content from anywhere. PC at work, laptop, home pc, tablet or smart phone – all you need to do is login to your WordPress for business website and away you go.
3) Google and other search engines love WordPress
Because WordPress has always been developed with search engines in mind, the code it creates is very clean and simple, this makes it easy for search engines to index and read. Each page and post has it’s own meta information, description, and titles, if you wish you can add key words, tags and more for tailor made in house optimisation.
4) Make it your Social Network Hub
WordPress for business connects easily to all manner of social networks. You add a piece of content and it can automatically send it to your Twitter feed, Facebook page or social network feed. No messing about hopping about from network to network cutting and pasting, keep your content in one place and distribute it centrally.
5) Take control of your website.
With a WordPress Business Website you don’t need to worry about waiting for a web designer to make simple updates – you can do it yourself. For bigger jobs it pays to get the web designer to do it, but for simple stuff, it easier and quicker to get it in done.

Write some content and it can be posted to Twitter automatically – driving visitors to your website.
6) A growing, expandable and customisable website foundation.
A WordPress Business Website is a completely customisable solution, WordPress is simply the engine for your site. The be designed to match any other in design, integrate ecommerce, video, social streams, have an support system built in, manage members, have comments, you name it WordPress can be the engine of your site and more.
7) Involve your staff.
WordPress is the perfect platform to get input from your staff, management and department leaders. WordPress for Business offers the ability to add as many users as you wish, all of them have only the publishing and access rights you determine. So juniors can comment, Managers can produce content but not publish and Heads of can press monitor and check pending content. It’s a great way to genereate valuable content for your site and get staff involved too.
9) No software outlay.
With a WordPress Business Website you don’t need to buy any specialist software all you need is the login details. No need for Dreamweaver or Contribute, no need for FTP or knowledge of code. As a user you simply need to login in and get busy.
10) PLUS!
WN6 Creative have been building WordPress Business Websites for many years with great success. Clients now run websites, with different features, bespoke designs, an archive of hundreds of posts going back years, content rich areas for search engine rankings. WordPress Business Websites are powering many businesses why not yours?
If you would like to find out more get in touch.
P.S. If you would like to see just how WordPress Business Websites are being used by BIG businesses, take a look at the WordPress VIP area, this is a service operated by the WordPress central development team, for high level businesses. They offer the same foundation with the same capabilities – all that’s different is they cost a lot more and provide teams of coders to develop websites and maintain the millions of pages of content.