WordPress for Beginners Course
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. In this course you can learn basic of WordPress step by step.
In this WordPress tutorial, you will find everything you need in order to create a website with WordPress. From installation to backups – we have covered it all. Be sure to check out the list of our newest WordPress tutorials at the very bottom of this page.
WordPress first saw the light of day on May 27, 2003. The founders of this software are Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress can be referred to as an online, open source site building tool based on PHP and MySQL programming languages. In more advanced terms it is called a content management system (CMS). When WordPress was first launched it had several users but over time grew into the biggest and most popular CMS in the world. Today, WordPress is powering over 75 million websites. A research carried out in April 2016 shows that this content management system was used by more than 26% of the 10 million best-ranking sites.
Why is WordPress so Popular?
After finding out the massive number of users WordPress has, it may leave you wondering, why is it so popular? A mixture of several factors should be taken into account. The general viewpoint is that WordPress is a simple blogging tool, however, it is much more than that. Due to the fact that WordPress is free and an open source project, it allows anyone to improve and edit its code according to one’s liking. It also features thousands of free plugins, themes, widgets and other tools.
All these features allow you to create any type of website, starting from simple blogs, personal websites or portfolios, ranging to e-shops, knowledge bases or job boards. Another factor is that WordPress is completely free and supports all hosting platforms with PHP and MySQL. On top of that, this CMS is constantly updated with new versions which improve security, include new features and improve overall performance. Last, but not least, WordPress has a huge community with dedicated forums and discussions all over the internet. The amount of data that is available and thousands of WordPress tutorials also make WordPress one of the easiest to use content management systems out there.
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