Do You Still Need A Developer For A WordPress Website?
WordPress is one of the best platforms for building a website, as well as being the most popular. It’s simple enough that anyone can create a website but it also has the scope for incredibly elaborate and sophisticated websites.
So, if WordPress was designed to be used by anyone and everyone, why should you hire a developer to build your website?
There are plenty of website developers who specialize in WordPress design and development. The market for them is huge, and it’s quite easy to see why.
Greater Skill For Customization
Just because anyone can make a website using WordPress doesn’t mean anyone can make an amazing website using it.
A developer can take existing WordPress themes and plugins beyond the basic options provided, tweaking the code of what’s already there.
Alternatively, they can build custom functionality and create an entirely unique look and feel for your website. That means your website will be completely tailored for your needs and won’t look like a cookie-cutter website like so many others out there.
Technical Support And Maintenance
Technology does not stand still and the theme, plugins and features that you put on your website will eventually need to be updated or replaced. The biggest problem that DIY website builders face is that they don’t always know how to find what’s broken or causing the pages on their website to load incorrectly. It can take a lot of trial and error, meaning a lot of your time, to find what isn’t working.
Once you’ve found it, you then also need to see if it can be fixed or if you need to find a replacement plugin or theme.
A developer who knows WordPress well is likely to be up to date on the main updates being done by platform, as well as have several websites that rely on many of the same elements as your website. This expert should be able to fix the issue quickly. If not, they’ll be more comfortable with rooting around in the backend of your website to find what needs fixing or replacing.
Better Security Built In
Online security is a massive concern for most people these days. It’s important to ensure that your website is safe from hackers, especially if you ask people to create profiles or make payments on your website.
To do this properly, you really need to invest in the expertise of a developer who is up to date on the latest security software, as well as the latest scams and other cyber threats out there.
A developer with a maintenance contract will be responsible for ensuring that your website is always up to date with the right security features and that no plugins get left behind in terms of security upgrades.
You Get To Free Up Your Time
Yes, building a simple website on WordPress is quite easy for just about anyone. However, it can take a lot of time to go through the details of the website and figure out how to make little changes and tweaks that you might want to make. All of this is time you could be spending on other areas of your business.
Remember, an expert developer will create the same website you have in your head in a fraction of the time it’ll take you. The money you spend on this developer will easily be made in your business if you spend your time focusing on sales or operations rather than fiddling about with the small details of your website design.
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