WordPress

WordPress is the world’s most used free and open-source Content manegement system (CMS) based on PHP and MY Sql. WordPress is used to create any type of blog or website imaginable by user. Today over 10 million websites are available on wordpress and day to day the number is increasing.

WordPress has many features including wordpress or third party themes and plugins.

Many of the features of wordpress are a great platform to create any type of blog or websites immediately.

It is a fully open source and completely free– Its means thousands of developers all over the world work as volenteer to improve wordpress. Grouped wordpress community (Now available 3 million developers) and people all over the world can download and use it totally free.

It is flexible and extendable – It is a user friendly software system. Easy to install. Able to create a website in few minutes and able to continuosly change and develop the entire look using a thousands of themes and plugins

WordPress provides two types of cms systam. They are wordpress.com and wordpress.org.

WordPress.com – This is a online server system which we can use to create and published a blog site immediately(free and paid). We can use the blogname.wordpress.com URL for free and to custom domain you need to get the paid version.

Feature

No download and installation.

Create a website in just a few clicks

No offline server System(Xampp or wamp etc…

WordPress.org- It is a download system, we can download and install in a server

Two type of server available

online server – This server system is provided by host companies(Godaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator). You can purchase an affordable hosting account from host companies and host your WordPress website or blog using this hosting account. You must know how to purchese a hosting account for wordpress and how to host your website through your hosting account
Offline server – We can download and install the internal server on your system(XAMPP, WAMP) –

XAMPP is a completely free offline server system for your system which is easy to install. Apache distribution contains MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.

First, you need to know how to download and install XAMPP server on your system. Then how to install wordpress of XAMPP server on your System

Then you can create a WordPress website using XAMPP server

When we create a wordpress website, word press provides options for us to select a perfect theme from thousands of themes and more functionality can be added using over 50,000 plugins

If you want to create a wordpress website, you need to know two mattaers.

How to select a theme and how to install the theme to your word press website.
What plugins you need for your website and how to install these plugins to your wordpress websites

Some plugins are a must have for WordPress website. Here are the important plugin for the wordpress website.