What is WordPress? Explained for beginners.

At its core, WordPress is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog . In fact, WordPress powers over 42.7% of all the websites on the Internet. Yes – more than one in four websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress. On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free. A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming. The end result is that WordPress makes building a website accessible to anyone – even people who aren’t developers. Play video What kind of websites can WordPress make? Many years ago, WordPress was primarily a tool to create a blog, rather than more traditional websites. That hasn’t been true for a long time, though. Nowadays, tha...