WordPress

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS). That just means it is a piece of software that can help you manage and organize your content into an impressive and coherent website.

    WordPress was created as a blogging tool, but it has become so much more than that over the years. Today, many WordPress-driven sites look nothing like blogs (unless that's what the user wants). This is down to the flexibility of this amazing tool.

                       

    WordPress powers simple blogs, corporate websites, and everything in between. Companies like Sony, the Wall Street Journal Samsung, New York Times, Wired, CNN, Forbes, Reuters, and many others all use WordPress is open source, meaning that all of its code is free to view, use, and customize. Being open-source has enabled programmers worldwide to create extensions to this powerful publishing platform, from website templates to plugins that extend this amazing site-building tool's functionality.

    Some of the Features That Make WordPress Great

• The template for site design means that changing your site's look and feel is as simple as installing a new theme with just a few clicks of the mouse. There are a plethora of free and quality WordPress themes available.
• Plugins are pieces of code that you can download into your WordPress site to add new features
  
  
  and functions. There are tens of thousands of plugins available, and many are free.
• Once your site is set up. you can concentrate on adding great content to your site. You simply build your page in the WordPress Dashboard, hit publish, and WordPress takes care of the rest.
• WordPress has a feature called Widget that allows the user to drag and drop "features" into their site. For example, you could add a visitor poll to your site's sidebar using a widget. Widgets are typically used in the sidebars and footers, but some templates allow widgets to be placed in other well-chosen areas of the design.
• WordPress can help you with the SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) of your site so that it has the potential to rank higher in search engines like Google and Bing.
  
• WordPress can create just about any type of site, for example, a hobby blog, a business site, or an e-commerce store. 

WordPress.com  v  WordPress.org

    There are two "flavors" of  WordPress. They are commonly referred to as WordPress.com and WordPress.org. These names refer to the website where that particular version of WordPress is available. They are both WordPress, from the same company, but they target different user groups. so they look and behave a little differently.

    you must understand the difference between these two.

WordPress.com

    WordPress.com allows anyone to sign up to build a free "WordPress"  website that WordPress.com hosts on wordpress.com servers (computers).

    For example, let's suppose you wanted to create a website on "educational toys for kids". you could set up a website called educationaltoysforkids.wordpress.com (assuming no one else has already taken that neme).

    Your website address (URL) would be;

educationaltoysforkids.wordpress.com

    By visiting that address in your web borowser, you'd see the homepage of your site.

what you have is a sub-domain on the wordpress.com.domain