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WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular content management system in the world. But the popularity has also attracted some criticism from many experts and some ‘not so experts’. Search the Internet and you would come across lots of false claims or rather myths about WordPress with little explanation and evidence. In reality, these are nothing, but exaggerated conception about the popular content management system. Let’s take a look at some popular WordPress myths which might have definitely opened your eyes when you first heard them.

Myth 1: WordPress Is Only for Blogging

This is perhaps the biggest myth associated with WordPress. It is true that WordPress started off as a blogging platform, but today it supports all kinds of web development including eCommerce stores and social networks. Its immense popularity as a corporate blog tool has resulted it in being branded as blog-only tool.

Myth 2: WordPress is Insecure

The security of a website rests more on the WordPress developer than the tool he/she uses to develop a website. A WordPress website can be as safe as one wants it to be. One needs to adopt the standard development techniques and get rid of outdated themes and plugins that are potential security threats. A bad hosting service provider may also be the cause of the problem so why taint WordPress?

Myth 3: Multiple Plugins Slow Your Site

On what basis are these claims made is unknown, but there are plugins which are slow, some are fast and some don’t effect the load time of your website. On the hindsight, there are plugins that speed up a website. There is no tool to measure the effect of different plugins collectively on a website’s load time.

Myth 4: Unused Plugins Slow Your Site

Unused plugins rest in your server and have no direct effect on the speed at which your website responds to a load or query request. So getting rid of them won’t boost your website’s speed technically, but it is good to remove them as they act as sitting ducks for virus and Trojan attacks.

Myth 5: Inactive Themes Slow Your Site

Likewise to the plugins, a theme which is inactive has little to do with the performance of the website as the users view the website on the new theme. However, if you don’t plan to make use of the theme any longer it’s wise to delete it and free up the disk space and cut down on the chances of security threats to the website.

Myth 6: Revisions Make Site Slow

This theory is absolutely baseless as revisions have no effect on the performance of a website. In fact you need to carry out these to keep your website in sync with the latest demands of the market. However revisions so take up a lot of space in the database.

Myth 7: Keeping Trash Items Slows Your Site

The only thing that thrash and unused files impact is the database space on your website and are no way linked to the speed at which a website renders on the web browser.

Myth 8: WordPress Websites Aren’t High Quality

Can you name a platform or CMS where high quality websites are guaranteed? The visual appearance, features and functionalities of a website solely depends on the creativity, foresight and technical skills of the developers and not on the platform.

Myth 9: WordPress Isn’t For Professional Sites

The list of WordPress users includes likes of Sony, Samsung, CNN and General Electric apart from hundreds of government organizations around the world. Doesn’t that get counted in the professional category?

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9 WordPress myths to Make Your Eyes Wide Open

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