WordPress Overview

by **Adminkunlex** Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:48 pm

#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 27 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.