what is Wordpress?

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and Linked with a MariaDB or MySQL database. It is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers over 37.6% of all the websites on the Internet. Many years ago, WordPress was basically a tool for creating a blog instead of a more conventional website. That hasn’t been true for a long time, though. Nowadays,it changes to the core code, as well as WordPress’ massive ecosystem of plugins and themes, you can create any type of website with WordPress.

For example, not only does WordPress power a huge number of business sites and blogs, it’s also the most popular way to create an eCommerce store as well! With WordPress, you can create:

• Business websites

• eCommerce stores

• Blogs

• Portfolios

• Resumes

• Forums

• Social networks

• Membership sites

• .....You can make something else, if you can.

Who Uses WordPress?

WordPress is used by individuals, big businesses, and everyone in between! On an immediate note, we use WordPress! So the very site that you’re looking at right now is powered by WordPress. Lots of other well-known entities use WordPress as well. Here are some of our favorite examples:

• Whitehouse.gov

• Microsoft

• The Rolling Stones

• TechCrunch

• MTV News

you have to know:

• WordPress.org, often called self-hosted WordPress, is the free, open-source WordPress software that you can install on your own web host to create a website that’s 100% your own.

• WordPress.com is a for-profit, paid service that is powered by the WordPress.org software. It’s simple to use, but you lose much of the flexibility of the self-hosted WordPress.