When to use wordpress?

2025-11-17

As a developer I usually would say coding is much better than using wordpress for building a website however, that is not always the case. However, what is wordpress? it's a CMS that allows quick drag'n drop website builder. but why is it widely used around the world?

Wordpress is widely known for its little to no code usage where you can quickly create something without having to code it from scratch which is related to the topic of this blog. Now with the appearance of many AI models that can build a full fledged website within minutes you don't really need to use wordpress because the AI models cost less probably and do the job well and withing the deadline. however this

There are a couple scenarios where wordpress is the go-to solution for example, when building an e-commerce store with payments tracking, stock management and it's a simple e-store where you sell products like clothes, perfumes or candy. This is because wordpress has well maintained plugins such as woo-commerce. Along with a theme then mash them up together and you got yourself an online store to sell your product, manage your inventory, delivery and payments under one week probably. In contrast to that building an online store from scratch is actually more complex than it sounds like. first you have to setup the backend which has all of the API links, payment gateway integration and you have to take care of security so your clients data are secure and well protected from hackers moreover, you will have to add a backend dashboard to upload, edit and manage products which takes much longer to build and after that you will have to create the landing page the shopping page and handle sessions for carts, checkout and user cookies.

Using wordpress woo-commerce this is done for you and is updated regularily for patches and bug fixes so you can only care and manage your actuall products instead of building a new website from scratch and taking care of the website instead of the product you're selling to your customers. And this is one of many examples for the wordpress go-to scenarios. Sometimes the product or web-app you have in mind is not available using plugins that are already in wordpress therefore, you have two choices. The first one is to build the web-app and fully customize it to your needs. The other is to have a combination of plugins in wordpress that do the job or build your own custom plugin to do the job which is actually not super hard to-do if you know what you're doing.

In conclusion, the method you use to build your website may differ depending on what you want the final product to be. If your goal is functionality and quick seamless setup of your website. I would say go with wordpress. however if the web app you have in mind has specific functionality that does not exist in existing plugins that are in wordpress then you can either build your site from scratch anyways or build your own plugin. Finally if you only want a landing page PLEASE USE AI.