What is WordPress

 

WorPress is most popular and attractive open source content management system which is written in PHP and MySQL. It has become the most powerful content management system in the world today. WordPress is used by more than 75 million websites in the world and which is equivalent to more than 25% of the world’s websites.

Why should I use WordPress?

WordPress is 100% free and open-source platform, which means anyone, can   download, install, use and modify. Source code of the platform is available free for anyone to study, understand modify and create new themes and plugins.

Should I have any coding skills?

It does not matter if you don’t have any programming or coding skills to build a blog or even an e-commerce site, because there are many plugins with built-in features and themes enable everyone to create their own website.

But it is worth, if you have basic knowledge of handling HTML (HyperText Markup Language),CSS (Cascading Style Sheets),PHP (Hypertext Pre-Processor) coding languages, because it will give you ultimate flexibility to handle many plugings and themes. But anyway it really does not need to have deep knowledge to handle on the basics.

 Ways to use WordPress

WordPress is flexible platform, so you can use it in many ways.

For example.

  • Blog
  • Community site
  • Celebrity website
  • Classified ads site
  • Corporate website
  • Gallery
  • Portfolio
  • Ecommerce

What is WordPress theme?

Theme decides how your site looks on the front-end, i.e. what a visitor sees when they browse to your site on the web. It means that you can decide how that content should be arranged and displayed on the front end. Themes or templates consists with options panel, so it is very easy to  change colours, font styles ,upload a logo or video , change background, use a creative slider.

Free and premium plugings can extend the flexibility of the wordpress. These plugins can add extra functions to your theme.

Is it SEO friendly?

WordPress is SEO friendly? You can use WordPress SEO plugins to improve online visibility of your website or a web page in every search engines.

Most notable big brands that are using WordPress

The New Yorker

 

The official site of Sweden

 

E bay

 

Sony music

 

BBC America

 

Mercedes-Benz