What are the benefits of WordPress?

WordPress started as a blogging tool in 2003, but today, many years later its form has completely changed.

Today, it is not just a blogging platform, but has become the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. Today more than 70 million websites are created on the internet with this WordPress. Now, not only blogs but also all types of websites can be created.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a type of content management system. That means the CMS used to create a website. It is an open source software program built on PHP and MySQL. It can be downloaded from internet for free. And by installing it on your web server, you can easily create a website or blog.

There are many types of content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento etc. But according to statistics, 43.3% of websites on the internet do not use any kind of content management system. And of all websites using CMS, 61.8% CMS are WordPress. That means WordPress’ market share is 61.8%. It is higher than anything else.

History of WordPress

• 2001: Michel Waldrigi, a French programmer, created a blogging tool called B2/Cafelog in 2001. In fact it became the foundation for wordpress. But in 2002 Valdrighi stopped its development.

• 2005: For the first time, Theme System was added. And Default Template, Image Upload Facility is added. The Import System has been improved and many more tools have been added.

• 2007: New interface design with features like Auto-Save, Spell Checking etc

were included. Likewise, WordPress is constantly improving every year and even today, new updates keep coming. And this trend continues.

What can WordPress do?

Now let’s see what kind of websites we can create with WordPress:

Personal Website

Blog

Static Website

News Website

Job Portal

Business Website

School/College Website

Business Directories

E-Commerce Sites

Question/Answer Website

Coupon Website

Online Course Selling Website

Social Network

Podcast

Photo Gallery

Classified Ads

Job Board

Membership Website

Review Site

Real Estate Website

Online Examination Site

Auction Website

Thus, with WordPress you can create almost every type of website on the internet.

WordPress Features

Now let me tell you about the features of WordPress. This CMS has many features that make the platform the best it can be.

Plug-ins : 

If you want to extend the features of your website, there is a plugin for all your needs. WordPress has thousands of plugins, which are very easy to find through the plugin directory.

Themes:

There are already three default themes in WordPress, but if you don’t like them, there are thousands of themes in the theme directory to make your website beautiful. If you want, you can upload your own theme by clicking the button. The new theme will be live on your website in seconds.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

Optimizing a website for search engines is very important if you want traffic. And WordPress helps you a lot in this task. You can also use SEO plugins if you want it to be SEO friendly.

User Management:

You don’t have to manage your website alone, you can have a team of people for this. When multiple users are contributing to your site, each user like admin, author, editor needs to define permission according to their role and this task is very easy in this platform.

Media Management:

If you want to upload images or any other kind of content on your website, this task can also be done easily. Here you can search and upload previously uploaded images in gallery anytime and use it again. Along with this, some basic tools for image editing are also provided here.

Multi Language:

If you have difficulty in English language then you can use WordPress in Hindi or any language of your choice. It supports more than 70 languages.

Community:

As you know WordPress is the most popular open source CMS on the web, so there is a huge community here to help you, where you can ask questions and find solutions to your problems. For this, you need to go to the WordPress support forum.

Finally, by reading this article, you will know what WordPress is and what its features are. If you also want to create your own website or blog, you can use WordPress. For this, you need Domain Name and Hosting. Then you can create your own site with WordPress.