{"id":224,"date":"2013-02-25T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgebase.inspirythemes.com\/?post_type=faq&amp;p=224"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:27:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:27:26","slug":"why-choose-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/cedat.mak.ac.ug\/knowledgehub\/faq\/why-choose-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Choose WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the principle advantages of WordPress is that you are in control. Unlike remote-hosted scripts such as\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a>, you host WordPress on your own server. Installation is very simple, as is the configuration. Unlike other software programs, there are not a million files to\u00a0<a title=\"Changing File Permissions\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Changing_File_Permissions\">chmod<\/a>\u00a0nor are there dozens of\u00a0<a title=\"Templates\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Templates\">templates<\/a>\u00a0to edit just to get your site set up and looking the way you want.<\/p>\n<p>Also,\u00a0<a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#Blogging\">Blog<\/a>\u00a0pages in WordPress are generated on the fly whenever a page is requested, so you do not have multiple archive pages clogging up your web space. Waiting for pages to rebuild is a thing of the past because template changes are made in scant seconds.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is built following\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\">W3C<\/a>\u00a0standards for\u00a0<a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#XHTML\">XHTML<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#CSS\">CSS<\/a>, ensuring that your site is more easily rendered across standards-compliant browsers. Other browsers are supported with a few hacks; it\u2019s a reality of the web that hacks are necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#News_reader\">Aggregator<\/a>\u00a0support is built-in with a number of standard\u00a0<a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#RSS\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0configurations already done for you, as well as\u00a0<a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Glossary#Atom\">Atom<\/a>. Following standards makes your WordPress site easier to manage, increases its longevity for future Internet technology adoption, and helps give your site the widest audience possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-224","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedat.mak.ac.ug\/knowledgehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/FAQs\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedat.mak.ac.ug\/knowledgehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/FAQs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedat.mak.ac.ug\/knowledgehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedat.mak.ac.ug\/knowledgehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}