WordPress Basic

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Title: WordPress Basic

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WORDPRESS BASIC
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What is WordPress?

WordPress is an online, open source website
creation tool written in PHP.
its probably the easiest and most powerful
blogging and website content management system
(or CMS) in existence today.
It is mostly associated with blogging field but
its still getting more presence in other fields
like mailing list, forums, and online stores.

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History

WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its
founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as
a Fork of b2/cafelog.
The software is released under the GPLv2 (or
later) license.
It was written in PHP for use with MySQL by
Michel Valdrighi, who is now a contributing
developer to WordPress.

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Facts

Used by more than 60 million websites, Including
33.6 of the top 10 million websites as of
June 2019.
Every 1 out 4 website you visit is powered by
WordPress.
WordPress 5.2 is the latest version also called
Jaco.

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Who Uses WordPress

There are lots of people who are using WordPress
at the right moment. Famous blogs are maintained
by WordPress such as The New Yorks Times blog,
Mashable, CNNs on-air personality blog etc.

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What Can WordPress Do?

WordPress is an excellent platform from blogging
to e-commerce to business and portfolio websites,
WordPress is a versatile CMS.
This is a list of websites you can build with
WordPress
1. Blog 2. E-commerce
3. Business 4. News
4. Photography 5. Music
6. Membership

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WordPress.org Vs WordPress.com

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 thats 100 your own.
WordPress.com is a for-profit, paid service that
is powered by the WordPress.org software. Its
simple to use, but you lose much of the
flexibility of the self-hosted WordPress.

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Customizing WordPress

The possibilities are endless when it comes to
customizing a WordPress website.
WordPress themes and plugins can add new design
options and added functionality.
Check out WordPress.org for free themes and
plugins.

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