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## WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. Features include robust user management, an extensible theming and plugin architecture, and a flexible template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including forums, media galleries, and online stores.
As a CMS, WordPress allows you to control and manage content of your website with a very easy system such as the WordPress dashboard panel. A dashboard lets you to do work on your website without needing to program anything. You can add or delete images and edit text on your webpage fast and easily.
WordPress powers over 30% of all websites and is by far the most used CMS on the planet. Backed by a huge community, this open source platform powers not only countless sites but a multi-billion dollar economy with themes, plugins, and custom software.
WordPress powers over 30% of all websites and is by far the most used CMS on the planet. Backed by a huge community, this open-source platform powers a multi-billion dollar economy with themes/plugins and custom software.
Both easy to use and highly customizable, Wordpress offers an easy solution for both web developers and non-web developers alike to create a site.
Advantages of WordPress include:
* Manageable from any computer
* Built-in blog ready to go whenever applicable
* Plugins to extend functionality to WordPress sites
* Thousands of free themes are available to customize
With its ease of use, Wordpress offers a simple solution for both web developers and non-web developers alike, for making great websites. Whether its elegant page transitions or a customized contact form you're looking for, WordPress users are only a few clicks away from success and a beautiful website.
### WordPress as Blogging Platform
Blogging is a foundational feature of WordPress. One of the primary things it allows you to do is create individual "posts", and designate a main blog page that displays them in chronological order.
It supports many useful publishing features out of the box, like the ability to add images, save drafts, enable comments, and organize your posts with tags and categories. And it includes an admin dashboard for managing posts, media, site menus, settings, and more.
### WordPress as CMS
In addition to posts, WordPress also comes with the ability to create "pages" — any non-chronological page on your site, like an "About" or "Contact" page.
What makes WordPress particularly powerful is that it's possible to create other custom page types as well. You could, for example, create your own classifieds site with a "listings" page type, or a book review site with a "review" page type, and even assign custom data fields and taxonomies to these as well. Using a combination of plugins and custom coding, you can adopt WordPress as a content management system for all kinds of uses.
### Themes and Plugins
WordPress has a few great ways to extend its core functionality. Among these, the main buckets are themes and plugins.
Themes typically provide an overall framework for the design and functionality of a site. WordPress has many free themes available, and there's a large ecosystem of professional-grade themes available at reasonable prices.
Plugins extend WordPress functionality in specific ways, adding features like mailing list integrations, contact forms, enhanced security, or custom data fields. As with themes, there's a huge number of plugins available, many of them free, or with both free and pro versions available, covering almost any feature you might think of.
### From Blogging Platform to CMS
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### More Information
- [About WordPress](https://wordpress.org/about/)
- [WordPress Codex: the online manual](https://codex.wordpress.org/)
- [WordPress Code Reference](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/)
- [WordPress Theme Directory](https://wordpress.org/themes/)
- [WordPress Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
- [WordPress Github Repository](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress)