WordPress is an open
source Content Management System
(CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites
and blog. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows
updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and
components. This tutorial will teach you the basics of WordPress using which
you can create websites with ease. The tutorial is divided into various sections
for convenience. Each of these sections contain related topics with screenshots
explaining the WordPress admin screens.
WordPress
is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build
dynamic websites and blogs. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on
the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its
back-end CMS and components.
What is Content
Management System (CMS)?
The Content
Management System (CMS) is a
software which stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc.
and is made available on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and
modifying the content of the website.
WordPress was initially released on
27th May, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike
Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009.
Features
·
User Management − It allows managing the user information such as changing
the role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or
administrator), create or delete the user, change the password and user
information. The main role of the user manager is Authentication.
·
Media Management − It is the tool for managing the media files and folder,
in which you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your
website.
·
Theme System − It allows
modifying the site view and functionality. It includes images, stylesheet,
template files and custom pages.
·
Extend with Plugins − Several plugins are available which provides custom
functions and features according to the users need.
·
Search Engine Optimization − It provides several search engine optimization (SEO)
tools which makes on-site SEO simple.
·
Multilingual − It allows
translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user.
·
Importers − It allows
importing data in the form of posts. It imports custom files, comments, post
pages and tags.
Advantages
·
It is an open source
platform and available for free.
·
CSS files can be
modified according to the design as per users need.
·
There are many plugins
and templates available for free. Users can customize the various plugins as
per their need.
·
It is very easy to
edit the content as it uses WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get is a
user interface that allows the user to directly manipulate the layout of
document without having a layout command).
·
Media files can be
uploaded easily and quickly.
·
It offers several SEO
tools which makes on-site SEO simple.
·
Customization is easy
according to the user's needs.
·
It allows creating
different roles for users for website such as admin, author, editor and
contributor.
Disadvantages
·
Using several plugins
can make the website heavy to load and run.
·
PHP knowledge is
required to make modifications or changes in the WordPress website.
·
Sometimes software
needs to be updated to keep the WordPress up-to-date with the current browsers
and mobile devices. Updating WordPress version leads to loss of data, so a
backup copy of the website is required.
·
Modifying and
formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult.
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