Thursday 16 August 2012

What is WordPress?




WordPress is an Open Source blogging application which required self web hosting platform/server  that allows you to build beautiful websites or blog site. It is free to use and most web hosting provider with popular control panel such as cPanel or Plesk support Wordpress with a one-click installation.

WordPress become popular as its functions not only just for a bloggging platform, it has a powerful built  feature as an easy way to add content, images, videos, audio, etc. to your site and acts as a full CMS (content management system). This makes it possible to build an entire website using this software.

It is easy to use and also has thousands of plugins that can be installed to perform just about any function you could ever need to add to your site. These range from shopping carts, article directories and membership scripts to powerful SEO features, contact forms and automated social bookmarking.

One very popular feature of WordPress is Wordpress plugins. There are thousands of plugins available.
Plugins installatiion is quite easy as all plugins can be installed with the click of a button because the installer is built into the dashboard in the admin area.

Another advantage of using WordPress is that it is completely customizable. Thank you for the Wordpress Theme. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the informational content. Themes may be installed by using the WordPress "Dashboard" administration tool, or by uploading theme folders via FTP. With one mouse click, you can change the look of your site or you can hire someone to design a custom theme for your site.

Most of top ranked websites are powered by WordPress. It has the ability of creating “pretty” URLs for each page on your website. With Wordpress, you will have a readable URL matching the title of the post or page.This is Why Search Engines Love WordPress. This will help to dramatically improve your website’s ranking, and your chances of being found by people searching for the products and/or services you offer.


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