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What Is WordPress And How Does It Work

WordPress is most popular free and open source Content Management System to

create websites and blogs. In simple words WordPress is a web software to create

websites quickly and easily.

Further Read: 35+ Type Of Websites You Can Create With WordPress

In this article i will discuss What is WordPress how does it work and who use it and how

many people are using world wide this most popular web software to create websites

and blogs.

Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprisewebsites, and even applications, are built with WordPress. WordPress is used by58.6% of all the websites whose content management system is known. This is24.9% of all websites.

WordPress started in 2003, It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt

Mullenweg and Mike Little as a fork of b2/cafelog.. Since then it has grown to be the

largest self-hosted blogging and publishing tool in the world, used on millions of

websites/blogs and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress started as just a simple blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full

content management system, which helps you to create different types of websites

very easily.  WordPress is the most popular online publishing platform, currently

powering more than 25% of the web.

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proven tactics: how to launch blog successfully & increase traffic

What is CMS (Content management systems) : Content management systems are web-

based applications for creating and managing the content of a website. We include all

such systems in this category, also systems that are often classified as wikis, blog

engines or discussion boards.

WordPress.Org And WordPress.Com

There are two versions of WordPress. WordPress.org (self hosted version) and

WordPress.com (hosted version of WordPress).

If you want full control over your website/blog that you can download and install a

software script called WordPress from https://wordpress.org/download/. To do this

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you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time.

WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost any type of website

or blog. To get started with self hosted version you will have to buy Domain and web

hosting and technical knowledge is required.

WordPress.com : is hosted version of the open source software WordPress. at

wordpress.com  you can start a blog or build a website in seconds without any technical

knowledge. wordpress.com was created in 2005.

At wordpress.com you can start a free blog or website, but there are some limitations.

You will have to pay them to unlock different features.

How You Can Use WordPress How Does WordPress Works?

If you are a designer or developer, or you work for a company that designs/develops

websites; you can use WordPress to build websites and/or blogs for others. People not

use WordPress to create personal blogs and websites even companies or organization’s

websites are built with WordPress software.

 WordPress is not difficult to use at all. You can learn basics of WordPress with in an

hour or two. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content

management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, but you don’t need to know

HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript & other languages to use WordPress.

How to get started with WordPress self hosted version?

1. Register domain name and buy web hosting

2. Install and set up WordPress

3. start publishing content

WordPress is famous for its five minutes installation process. It means your WordPress

based website will be online with in 5 minutes. Than you just need to publish content on

your site. We are going to publish a series of articles and courses that will help you learn

your site. We are going to publish a series of articles and courses that will help you learn

how to use WordPress self hosted version to create powerful websites and blog.

Most Powerful WordPress Features

One of the main reason of WordPress is its flexibility and list of very powerful features,

that allows you to build different type of blogs and websites very easily. For example

With themes you can change design of your websites very easily.

Here is a list of WordPress features.

B U I LT- I N CO M M E N T S

Your blog is your home, and comments provide a space for your friends and followers to

engage with your content. WordPress’s comment tools give you everything you need to

be a forum for discussion and to moderate that discussion.

C H A N G E D E S I G N E A S I LY W I T H WO R D P R E S S T H E M E S

WordPress Themes allow you to change the look and functionality of a WordPress

website or installation without altering the information content or structure. thousands

of free themes are available at . Commercial themes are also available.

Further Read: How To Choose A Perfect Free Or Premium WordPress Theme

A D D A D D I T I O N A L F U N C T I O N A L I T Y W I T H T H O U S A N D S O F F R E EP LU G I N S

One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugins. which allows users and

developers to extend its abilities beyond the features that are part of the base install.

Further Read: 30 Free Most Popular WordPress plugins 2016

Further Read: 30 Free Most Popular WordPress plugins 2016

As of November 2015 WordPress has a database of over 41000+ plugins with purposes

ranging from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to adding widgets, building social

networking, online store, forums websites and much more. These free plugins can be

found at

W I D G E T S

Widgets are small modules that offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement

and implementation of many plugins’ extended abilities. Widgets allow WordPress

developers to add functionality to their sites. These small modules can be used to add

functionality such as a slideshow, Facebook-like box, small news slider, and more.

M U LT I - U S E R A N D M U LT I - B LO G G I N G

You can have multiple users on a WordPress site with different user roles and

Capabilities. A user with Administrative rights have full authority to manage WordPress

site while a User with subscriber role has minimum capabilities.

M U LT I S I T E N E T WO R K

As of WordPress 3.0, you have the ability to create a network of sites by using the multi-

site feature. With WordPress Multi Site feature you can create a network of WordPress

base websites just like WordPress.com where any one can register and create a free

website/blog.

Visit page to learn about all the features.

How Many People Are Using WordPress

As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.

 WordPress 4.3 has been downloaded more than  + times.  Version 4.3 of WordPress was

named “Billie” in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday.

As of 2015 WordPress is fastest growing content management system and most widely

used CMS to build highly customized websites and blogs.

WordPress is used by 58.6% of all the websites whose content managementsystem is known. This is 24.9% of all websites. WordPress Version 4 is used by83.1% of all the websites who use WordPress. source

WordPress.com activity page shows that over 409 million people view more than 20.4

billion pages each month and users produce about 56.6 million new posts and 52.2

million new comments each month. WordPress.com host blogs written in over 120

languages. English is most popular language.

M O S T P O P U L A R W E B S I T E S U S I N G WO R D P R E S S

according to w3techs.com here are 10 most popular websites using WordPress

1. WordPress.com

2. WordPress.org

3. Conservativetribune.com

4. Time.com

5. Webtretho.com

6. Xda-developers.com

7. Techcrunch.com

8. Exoclick.com

9. Vcommission.com

10. Wired.com

Notable WordPress Users

WordPress is not only used by individuals and hobby bloggers, some of the worlds most

popular and biggest websites in the world rely on WordPress. Here’s a sampler of well-

known sites that are powered by WordPress.

1. The New York Times’ blogs

2. CNN blogs

3. Forbes

4. Reuters

5. eBay

6. Sony

7. BestBuy

8. MP3.com

9. TechCrunch

10. Samsung

11. IBMJobs

12. Boing Boing

13. Mashable

and a lot of others. You can view complete list at WordPress Notable Users page.

Next StepsNow you know all the basics things about WordPress, it’s time to start learning

WordPress, so you can create powerful websites with WordPress your self. Our

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Now you know what is WordPress who use it,  it time to start learning WordPress to

create powerful blogs and websites with WordPress yourself. With WordPress Quick

Start course you will learn all the basics of WordPress. You will be able to set up your

own website with WordPress.

How to find the right web host

How to install WordPress

Getting to know the WordPress Dashboard

Creating Content: Posts vs. Pages and when to use each

How to write a WordPress post

Using WordPress themes

How to use WordPress widgets

Using WordPress plugins

How to create custom WordPress menus

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