WordPress is a personal publishing system, built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress, started in 2003, initially with the sole purpose to enhance the typography of everyday writing.Today, however, it has grown to be one of the largest self-hosted blogging tool .It is an Open Source project. Being completely customizable it is used as, apart from a blogging system, a full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.
Installing WordPress involves downloading and installing the software script. To this end, the web host must meet the minimum requirements. Along with its online resources, like the forums and mailing lists, WordPress has a WordCamp.It is a free or low-cost event that happen all around the world to gather and educate WordPress users, organized by volunteer WordPress users.
The interface of Wordpress is easy to understand and adjusting the appearance requires familiarity with CSS, cascade style sheet language. It is easy for a developer to make changes change oweing to the a logical structure.It is setup very quickly and you can be listed in Google within 2 days. Another major advantage is that it can handle heaps of visitors without breaking down.
On the other hand the knowledge of WP scripting becomes important say for adding or removing post dates or in case there is a need to make changes to the navigational structure. Also, changing the order of categories or pages is rather cumbersome as It need you to go into all of the categories and change the order manually.
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