Top 4 Reasons to Customize Your CMS

Open source CMS themes, along with built-in plug-ins and widgets may seem like a great idea when looking into a content management system for your company, but they come with a few pitfalls. Custom off-the-shelf systems typically cater a broad range of needs and rarely satisfy the individual of each business. That’s why a customized CMS is the best way to go. Here are 4 reasons you should customize your company’s content management system. 

Unique Designs

A built-in CMS theme is easy to deploy, but these commonly used designs won’t allow your company to stand out against the competition, or become recognizable to your clientele. A custom CMS theme (whether a custom theme for WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal) designed by a software developer will solve this problem. You have the flexibility of working with a developer to create a unique design that you can deploy across all of your digital platforms. It’s an extra cost that will pay for itself in the long-run. 

SEO 
Most open-source content management systems offer back-end functionality for search engine optimization – to an extent. A custom SEO solutions for your CMS will give you more functionality so your website can rank higher on search engines. A good team of developers will build a responsive site that’s compatible across all devices, comprehensive analytics features, e-forms to track conversions, and a bevy of other implantations / integrations for SEO. 

Flexible 
When it comes to the flexibility of a website, custom developments are the best way to go. When you hire a quality developer, you can provide an outline of your goals, and they’ll create the functionality to see that your goals are met. If you need plugins that don’t exist, a developer can create custom plugins for your site, and integrate plugins to your CMS. If you’re in need of better web content management, a developer can create these features.

Security 
Your website can become more vulnerable to spam and hackers with a CMS that isn’t customized. A customized CMS is personally developed for your business, therefor it’s more secure and is more likely to meet corporate standards on security. Hackers are an unnecessary problem you can do without.

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