Wordpress is the best for websites right?... right??

Wordpress powers 32% of the internet and has a whopping 50% - 60% of the global CMS market so it must be good right?
Well.. yes and no, let me explain. Yes in that it's open source which means you can freely download it to use at will. It also has 50,000+ plugins available to further expand on it's capabilities.

Don’t get me wrong, the platform is certainly powerful and flexible enough to build amazing websites — nobody is contending that. However, you don’t need a sledgehammer to tack down a nail and you don’t need a complicated open source CMS with 50,000+ options to create a 5-10 page small business website that converts customers.

However, much like the fact the vast majority of viruses are designed to target Windows computers, when it comes to the world of internet hacking the hackers often target Wordpress vulnerabilities first. The open source nature of Wordpress and it's plugins means that the code can be tested and abused by the nefarious at ease before deploying.

The open source community will certainly shut it down with patches and upgrades once it's been discovered, but who's applying those updates to your website? You? Do you know how, do you have the time? Maybe your developer, at your request and further cost to you. Maybe the upgrade then breaks one or more of your plugins that haven't been updated yet because the developer releases them for free and just hasn't had time yet. The issue can be compounding costing you both time and money and potentially lost revenue.

83% of all infected websites monitored by security service Sucuri were Wordpress sites in 2017. In fact they are cleaning Wordpress sites everyday from infected malware.

The problem is that many website developers just don't really know any better, Wordpress is all they know, but unless you're paying a solid monthly service fee, they likely aren't updating everything for you on the fly. This is how they keep your ongoing costs limited to some basic hosting, which could be your next issue.

With Google placing greater and greater influence on how fast a site loads on end users device in order to determine part of your rank, sometimes even a decent site can be let down by the hosting it sits on.

Most developers will be using some kind of shared hosting that is incredibly cost effective at the cost of being shared with many other sites too. Wordpress sites out of the box are particularly optimised for ideal delivery.

Even the Co-Founder of Wordpress admits that user friendliness is a huge challenge for end users.

There is a myriad of "user friendly" DIY site builders out there such as Wix that help solve that particular problem but then again, that comes at a cost of good SEO and efficient code.

That's why all Irez sites use proprietary code specifically designed and optimised with the needs of today's search engine requirements. We don't see the point in spending good money on a site that is ultimately going to cost you more in the long run not only in upfront costs and repairs, but in missed revenue opportunities because your site isn't performing as well as your competitors. As a small business ourselves we understand the constraints of a tight budget may bring and that's why we have priced it in the sweet spot for other small businesses with the added benefit of ongoing support and a complete suite of easy to follow documentation.

See our pricing page for more information.