What is WordPress?
WordPress was first released on May 27, 2003, and is an open source Content Management System (CMS) powered by PHP and MySQL.
It was originally used mainly as a blogging platform, but has since evolved into the preferred website platform for some of the biggest companies and websites in the world. Approximately 13% of the 1,000,000 most visited websites use WordPress, giving it the largest share of all CMS's.
WordPress is undergoing constant development and refinement, thanks to it's huge coding community. Thousands of plugins, modules and widgets are freely available, all of which add to the overall value of WordPress as a content management system.
What makes WordPress so great?
- Very easy to use, the easiest of all CMS's
- Loads of themes, plugins and extensions contributed by the WordPress community
- Any type of website can be created with WordPress, from recipe sites, to complex membership sites, to music and band sites
- Well structured code
- Efficient use of SQL tables and queries for programmers
- Language customization integrated
Installing WordPress is as simple as 3 clicks if you have a shared hosted server with Cpanel access. Shared hosting is a very affordable way of creating an online presence.
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