What is WordPress? WordPress is a free and open-source way to simply create your own website or blog. WordPress is extremely popular and powers over 35.2% of all websites on the Internet. That means that more that more than one in four websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress. Anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free due to it being a content management system. This means that it is easy to manage aspects of the website like content without needing any knowledge about programming. So with that, WordPress makes building a website accessible and easy for anyone including people that aren’t developers.
Originally, WordPress was primarily used to create blogs rather than more traditional websites but nowadays due to changes and updates in the core code, plugins, and themes, any type of website can be created with WordPress. For example, with WordPress, you can create:
- Business websites
- eCommerce stores
- Blogs
- Portfolios
- Resumes
- Forums
- Social networks
- Membership sites
WordPress is used by many many people such as big businesses, individuals, and everyone in between. It is also very popular among designers. This is because it is extremely flexible, easy to install, free, extensible, and simplistic. Many designers use WordPress for business and portfolio sites that look nice, loads fast, and are responsive. Professionals also use it due to its full content management system that can be so easily and quickly edited with no programming or coding necessary.
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