What is WordPress? Why use WordPress
If you read this article, let me guess what ... Well, you're curious about WordPress and how to use it right? Mastering WordPress was not difficult, but before learning how to conquer WordPress, we should know about it.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is an open source software (Open Source Software) is written in the programming language PHP website (Hypertext Preprocessor) and user management system MySQL database. WordPress was first launched on 05.27.2003 by author Matt Day Mullenweg and Mike Little. Today WordPress is owned and developed by the company Automattic is headquartered in San Francisco, California under the United States.
WordPress is an open source language PHP to support creating personal blogs, and it is very many users favor the ease of use, many useful features. Over time, the number of users increases, the collaborators are also engaged programmers to develop numerous WordPress source code to help them have great features. And until the time of this writing was in 2015, WordPress has been viewed as a content management system (CMS - Content Management System) to support outstanding user can create different kinds of Web sites such as blogs, news sites News / magazines, business introduction, sales - Ecommerce, even with the kind of high complexity websites such as hotel reservations, car rental, post project property ... Almost every form website for small and medium-scale can be deployed on the WordPress platform.
But that does not mean that WordPress is only suitable for small projects, which currently owns around 25% of the sites in the list of 100 largest websites world use WordPress source code. Eg magazine pages TechCrunch, Mashable, CNN, BBC America, Variety, Sony Music, MTV News, Bata, Quartz, ... so many can not tell the full.
The achievements of WordPress
When learn about WordPress, you will very proud to learn that the source code you are learning there are outstanding achievements and is a popular open source CMS on the planet. To verify this, you should know that:
• Worldwide, there are about 25 entries posted to the website using WordPress per second.
• The number of websites using WordPress as 23% of the total number of sites in the world .
• In 100% of websites use the source CMS, WordPress accounts for 60%.
• WordPress version 4.0 achieved over 16 million downloads in just two months.
• WordPress has been translated into 52 different languages
• More than 80 programs on WordPress meeting was held in 2014.
• Powered WordPress currently has about 785 programmers and development cooperation.
• Only interfaces (aka theme) free on library WordPress.org it has more than 2,700 different themes.
You see, WordPress is great is not it?
The reason you should choose WordPress
If you are still wondering about WordPress, I would like to point out to you some of the reasons very great due to choose WordPress as a foundation built your own website.
Easy to use
WordPress is developed to serve the common user object, without much knowledge of advanced website programming. The operations in WordPress is simple, intuitive administration interface can help you understand the management structure a WordPress website shortly. About how to install even easier, you can install a WordPress website on the host (server) itself and operate it themselves after a few clicks. Are you worried how how to install, host is what? No problem, the next part of the series of their fundamental learning WordPress has said very detailed.
Community supports numerous
open source CMS is one the most popular in the world, this also means that you will be added Council supports WordPress users difficulties you encountered during use. You can easily find answers to the problems you are encountering on Google just a few keyword searches.
Many packages available interfaces
While using WordPress, the website interface concept is often called the theme WordPress so since this section, I will call it the theme. Today WordPress has many different free theme so you can easily change the "skin" of your website with just a few clicks without worry of how to design your own custom themes. If you want beautiful website and more professional, you can buy the theme premium with prices ranging from $ 30 to $ 65.
But if you are a beginner to become familiar with WordPress, please forget the use themes premium for how to install it can not very easy for a beginner, but I will have tutorials at the end of this lesson.
Many plugin support
Plugin mean a plug-in to additional website functionality you need. For example, by default after installing WordPress website, you do not have functional displays related posts at the bottom of each article, but with many free plugin support, you can easily install a free plugin for websites I have that function. Similar to the theme, there are many plugins premium bearing features a very unique and beneficial to the website and it will cost between $ 10 to $ 80 depending on the complexity.
Ease of development for programmers
If you are a person with knowledge of employment as proficient website HTML, CSS, PHP, you can easily expand your WordPress website with numerous features extremely helpful. Developing very well simply because WordPress is an open source, so you can easily understand how its activities and develop additional features.
With thousands of functions (function) available on it, you can comfortable to use, you can also change the structure of a filter function with hook and almost workflow of a professional programmer can be applied easily in WordPress.
Supports multiple languages
Powered by WordPress now there are many language packs come. Although in each theme or plugin has its own language, but you can easily translate it with the self-support software.
It can do many kinds of websites
using WordPress does not mean that you can only make personal blog , but you can turn your website into a sales page, a website introducing the company, an online magazine using the theme and plugin combinations together. But to do it, you should definitely understand WordPress and not hurry a step above the clouds to get the feeling of disappointment because of its complexity.
These misunderstandings about WordPress
WordPress Before school, I would say over a little thing about WordPress to avoid misleading the people on this source.
WordPress is a software just
right, just a WordPress open source software written in PHP & MySQL to help you create websites faster . But that does not mean it will help you create a website with just any simple operations.
Although the interface library available (Theme) and Plugin lot but to customize using WordPress website better , you need to have knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ... all the techniques related to the website.
WordPress is only for people who do not know the code
is totally wrong, if you have heard someone tell you that WordPress is only for people without specialized programming to use, this completely incorrect.
Of course those who do not know programming to use WordPress using the features available, libraries and other rich interface plugin support was enough to make the website. But if you know the code, the better for the core WordPress has very strong source for your application is not limited skills, if you believe that WordPress is only for people who do not know programming, then take a look through our Series Advanced WordPress .
Epilogue
In this article, sure you understand how WordPress is now and may start with it if you feel the excitement. See the next article, you will understand more about WordPress.
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