What is WordPress?
WordPress is an open source software designed specifically to allow users to create and manage their own website, without demanding too much technical or programming knowledge. WordPress is one of the most popular website building software’s available, due to its wide accessibility and how simple it is to learn and use it. WordPress is able to support just about any kind of website, such as blogs, portfolios, forums, business websites, and just about anything that anybody could think of.
What WordPress provides
WordPress provides the following:
- A content management system that is user friendly and allows users to manage and publish websites of their own making.
- Design customization such as themes or plugins which serve to extend functionality of created websites, but with some limitations when used for free.
- Tools that can be used for easy content management that doesn’t require extensive programming knowledge.
- A way for users to host their own websites and have ownership and control over all their website data within WordPress.
Features such as these have made WordPress a very popular and go-to option when it comes to web development, due to it being one of the most user and beginner friendly software’s available and its accessibility to the public.