WordPress is an open source software (Open Source Software) is written in the programming language PHP website (Hypertext Preprocessor) and user management system MySQL database. WordPress was first launched on November 27/05/2003 by Matt Mullenweg and author Mike Little. Currently WordPress is owned and developed by Automattic company headquartered in San Francisco, California of the United States.
New WordPress user interface development time
The role of WordPress is an open source PHP language to support creating personal blog, and it was a lot of users supported on ease of use, many useful features. Over time, the number of users increases, the collaborators are also involved programmers to develop numerous WordPress additional source of great features. And by the time this article was written in 2015, WordPress has been viewed as a content management system (CMS - Content Management System1)) superior to assist the user can create many different types of websites such as blogs, websites news / magazines, business introduction, website sales - e-commerce, even with the kind of highly complex websites such as hotel reservations, car rental, post project property ... yes ... yes ... Almost all forms of small-scale sites are small and can be deployed on the WordPress platform.
But that does not mean that WordPress is only suitable for small projects, which currently owns around 25% of the sites in the list of 100 largest website using WordPress source code. Eg magazine pages TechCrunch, Mashable, CNN, BBC America, Variety, Sony Music, MTV News, Bata, Quartz, ... so many can not tell the full.
The achievements of WordPress
When you learn about WordPress, you would be proud to know that source that you're looking out immediately following achievements are extraordinary and is a popular open source CMS on the planet. To verify this, you need to know is:
Worldwide, there are about 25 articles posted to the website using WordPress every giay2).
The number of websites using WordPress as 23% of the total number of sites in the world.
Of the 100% of website use source CMS, WordPress account for 60%.
WordPress version 4.0 reached more than 16 million downloads in just two months.
WordPress has been translated into 52 different languages. But again no official Vietnamese version, but you can easily Vietnamese goods by finding blog posts with the keyword "Vietnam of WordPress".
There are more than 80 programs for WordPress meeting was held in 2014.
Powered WordPress currently has about 785 programmers and development cooperation.
Only interfaces (aka theme) free on WordPress.org, the library has over 2,700 different themes.
You see, WordPress is great is not it?
The reason you should choose WordPress
If you are still wondering about WordPress, I would like to show you some great reasons to choose WordPress as the platform for building your own website.
Ease of use
WordPress was developed to serve the common user object, without much knowledge of programming enhanced website. The manipulation of WordPress is very simple, intuitive administration interface can help you understand the structure of managing a WordPress website in a short time. How to install even easier, you can install a WordPress website on the host (server) itself and operate it themselves after a few clicks. You're worried about how how to install, host what? No problem, the next part of the series of its basic WordPress school has said very detailed.
Community support large
As a popular open source CMS in the world, this also means that you will be using the WordPress community to support the difficulties you encountered during use. If you have good English skills, you can easily find answers to the problems you are having with a few words on Google search.
Currently in Vietnam, is considered the source Thachpham.com website user guide with hundreds of the best WordPress tutorial from basic to advanced. On Facebook, there is a group called Vietnam WordPress has thousands of participants so that you can request assistance, discussions, social acquainted.
Many packages available interfaces
While using WordPress, the concept of interfaces for websites WordPress theme is commonly referred to from this section, I will call it a theme. Currently WordPress has many different themes free so you can easily change the "skin" of your website with just a few clicks without having to worry about how to design your own theme. If you want beautiful and professional website, you can buy premium theme with prices ranging from $ 30 to $ 65.
But if you are a beginner familiar with WordPress, please forget to use premium theme for installing it can be not easy for a beginner, but I will have tutorial lesson at the end this.
Many plugin support
Plugin means a website to plug in additional functionality that you need. For example, the default after installing WordPress website, you can not function displays related posts at the bottom of each article, but with many free plugin support, you can easily install a free plugin for website I have this function. Similar to the theme, there are many plugins premium features the unique and beneficial to the website and it will cost about $ 10 to $ 80, depending on complexity.
Ease of development for programmers
If you are a person with knowledge of the website as proficient as HTML, CSS, PHP, you can easily expand your WordPress website with a lot of extremely useful features. How developed is very simple because WordPress is an open source so you can easily understand how its activities and develop additional features.
Can do many types of website
Using WordPress does not mean you can only do personal blog, which you can turn your website into a sales page, a website introducing the company, an online magazine by using a combination of theme and plugin together. But to do it, you should definitely understand WordPress but do not rush to get a step up clouds of frustration because of its complexity.
Epilogue
In this article, be sure you understand how WordPress is and can then start with it if you feel interested. Please see the article pointing through the next section, you will learn more about WordPress and go down into the setting.
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