WordPress

What is WordPress? 

WordPress is an open and accessible platform for creating blogs and websites. It is user-friendly and also provides self-hosting. It can be operated easily without learning any coding language. It has Unix-like, Linux, Windows operating systems. In word press, it has PHP language.

It is used to create blogs and websites. WordPress powers 39.6% of the internet in 2021, a growth of nearly 5% from 35% in 2020 and a 4% rise from the year before. If you count only the CMS-built sites, then 64.1% of them are WordPress – 4% growth from 2020.

In 2016, nearly 118 billion words were published on WordPress. Still, WordPress is not only for blogging – almost 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce 281 new WooCommerce shops appear on average every day 661 WordPress sites also pop up daily WordPress.org offers over 50,000 plugins over 4,100 GPL-licensed themes. In 2018, the non-English WordPress downloads were more than the English ones. 

These facts and numbers are essential because WordPress plays a crucial role in the online business environment. 

How to create a blog using WordPress? 

•  First, select a plan on wordpress.com. 
•  Find a hosting provider and domain name. 
•  Now, install WordPress. 
•  Login to your WordPress and select new posts in the dashboard, and start writing your blog post. 
•  Now, customize your blog post using themes. 
•  You can also analyze your post using different plugins by installing. 
•  After analyzing the post, now publish the blog post. 
•  Finally, your blog post is ready and published. 

How to build a website using WordPress? 

•  First, select a plan on wordpress.com. 
•  Find a hosting provider and domain name. 
•  Now, install WordPress. 
•  Go to appearances in the dashboard and then select a  theme and activate. 
•  Now, go to all pages in the dashboard and then create new pages and posts for your new website. 
•  Install an editor and then customize your website by using the editor. 
•  Install plugins 
•  Now customize your website by using the plugins to increase the page speed. 
• Finally, your website is ready. 

What is the purpose of themes and plugins in WordPress? 

As WordPress is free to create websites and blogs, themes provide the layout or structure for the website. So that it would be easy to develop websites and blogs. Plugins are installed in WordPress to add features and to increase the speed of the website. 

Examples of themes in WordPress are; Astra, oceans WP, Airi, neve, flash, etc. 

What are the uses of WordPress? 

•  It is used to build websites and also provides self-hosting. 
•  It is used to create blogs. 
•  It is used to create online stores. 
•  It also creates websites for business purposes. 

So, these are some uses of WordPress. 

Advantages 

There are many advantages are, 

• It is open-source and also completely free 
• It is user friendly 
• It is easy and quick to install themes and plugins. 
• It has a woo-commerce option for E-commerces. 
• Easy to build websites. 
• Users can customize the website comfortably. 
• WordPress has plugins for every feature. 
• It notifies updates regularly. So, that website speed will be increased. 
• An extensive online support community is provided in WordPress. 
• It is very flexible for users. 
• WordPress website has more SEO support.  

Disadvantages

• Easy to hack as the security system is weak. 
• It has to be updated regularly. 
• Website Speed is deficient. 
• PHP language is needed for the modification of the website. 
• It requires CSS and HTML for graphic modification. 

Even though it has a few disadvantages, it is suitable for beginners as it is open-source and maintains the content management system. And also, to avoid hacking, the password must be more robust to prevent the hacking threat, and by updating WordPress, the user can also avoid security issues.