Having Problems with Your WordPress Website
Many Australian businesses now use WordPress for their small business website or company website. We examine common issues and concerns encountered with WordPress websites and discuss alternatives for your business website design and website hosting.
Why would you use WordPress for your website?
Wordpress websites are popular in Australia and overseas because they are a Content Management System (CMS) and are freely available to set up a website with.
Used as a CMS, it means that once the WordPress installation is created and designed, the business owner can login to the website and update popular content like:
Website pages
Blog posts
Images
Events
WordPress websites support a high level of flexibility because there is a huge market of Plugins that can do just about anything you want to do with a website for your Australian business.
Issues with WordPress
The main issues with WordPress websites are:
Security - the plugins and themes used in WordPress age over time (as does the PHP and database elements that come with it). This means over time more and more security issues can emerge if not actively managed. Hacked WordPress sites is a common problem.
Size - WordPress sites take up considerable hosting space, are heavy websites and can be slow to load unless you incorporate additional (potentially costly) features like a CDN which is a Content Delivery Network.
Difficulty to maintain (the back end) - with WordPress, when everything is okay, it works well. When something goes wrong, your business will need an expert to fix the back-end problem. These issues occur quite regularly with WordPress due to plugin incompatibility or automated theme updates.
Complicated front end - sometimes it’s quite difficult to maintain and update content in WordPress sites. This leaves users - website editors - frustrated. There are different inbuilt and plugin editors for WordPress but each one has a different approach to editing and updating website content.
Given all these complex problems that can come with a WordPress website for your Australian business, you probably are wondering:
Is there a simple approach for creating and managing a Website for my business?
The answer is yes.
In the next section, we will discuss an easy, alternative to WordPress where your business still has a fantastic company website but without all the hassle.
A BETTER and Simpler Website Solution
Value without the hassle. Ideal for small to medium-sized businesses that need to advertise their products and services BUT want a fully supported website service.
A STATIC website (or simple marketing website) designed, hosted and managed for your Australian business provides you with a range of benefits over a WordPress website. Let’s look at the disadvantages of WordPress and see how these can be advantages with a STATIC website.
Security - a static website is based on HTML and very little else (okay, there’s a bit of techie stuff but much less vulnerable to hacking).
Size - A static website is compact and small. It only has what is needed on the site and nothing much else. As an example, a five-page WordPress site will be around 1GB in size, whereas a five-page static website will be about 30MB. This means it is only 3% of the size. The web pages on the site are not ‘assembled’ like in WordPress so they are inherently FASTER.
Back-end - with a static website, we maintain the backend, it’s very straightforward and you never need to worry about the site going down like WordPress websites regularly do.
NO front end - with a static website, you don’t need to edit and update the website content yourself. With Llamablue as your partner, any time you need an update published you contact our support and we usually have the changes updated same day. You do need a great website hosting provider that has a reputation for quick turnaround.
