WordPress

WordPress as a Content Management System

 WordPress® is one of the world’s most popular and widely used open-source Content Management System (CMS) and is currently estimated to being used in 28% of all websites globally, with 58% of all websites using CMS using WordPress. WordPress has been steadily gaining popularity for its ease of usage which makes even a novice user easily grasp the fundamentals of web designing with WordPress® and easily built a website using its “Drag and Drop” functionality in its User-Interface (Dashboard). It also has thousands of themes or pre-built layouts which are customizable pre-built web page structures that are offered for both free and for premium purchase. Users can use these themes to have a structure of their website and the interface allows easy addition of text and multimedia. 

WordPress® has thousands of Plugins-which are pre-built codes that can be easily integrated with the website by a single click and can perform various functional additions such as adding a shopping cart mechanism, enhancing website security, generating a contact form and much more. Plugins and themes are offered for free on the WordPress® website and can also be purchased from third-party vendors. It is this ease of customization and easy web development that has made it the most popular web CMS platform for creating almost any type of website without having to write code.

The Official Site of WordPress CMS

History of WordPress: WordPress was developed as a CMS to design by Blogs by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little in 2003. Initially created to design blogs based on the then-popular Blogging platform b2/cafelog, the WordPress platform underwent many updates to make to suitable to create almost any kind of website with ease of platform usage and diverse options for customization. It follows a template or theme based system and uses PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) as its core programming language along with mainly using MySQL as a Database. Since 2003, WordPress has seen many new versions being released, with the current version being 5.3.2. WordPress® is open-source software and is offered under the General Public License (GPL), and the software is now managed by the WordPress® foundation.

What makes it unique and the World’s most popular CMS running on 33.6% of the top 10 Million websites in 2019?

WordPress® has been growing immensely popular for its ease of usage and other features that are well-refined and diverse-facilitating rapid web development even for a novice user. Here are a few features that make it the choice of CMS web designers. WebTekTalk would cover them in detail in the following posts.

• Open-Source and ease of availability and installation.

• CMS Advantage of accessing the software from any browser and making changes that can be set to instantly appear on the web page.

• Choice of thousands of free and premium themes, with secure free themes offered for download from WordPress’s official website (www.wordpress.org), or from the WordPress® dashboard.

• Thousands of free and premium Plugins for a vast range of functionalities, which can be easily integrated into the website and customized without having to write code. Free Plugins are available from WordPress’s official Plugin repository on their website, and can also be downloaded from the WordPress dashboard.

• WordPress® works on Unix, Linux and Windows operating system environments, making it accessible for all servers.

• Easy to use User-Interface, which makes even a novice user easily grasp the basics of the platform. Users can browse many comprehensive design tutorials on the official website of WordPress®.