What is WordPress. Why it is most used to create a website/blog. What is WordPress for Website Development, today we will talk about WordPress and know what is WordPress and why WordPress is so popular in blogging. 

What are the features of WordPress that make it so special. This is the first and most important post in the WordPress tutorial series, so read it carefully. 


What is wordpress?

WordPress is the world's most famous and powerful User Friendly “Free Website Creation Tool (CMS)” through which you can create best blogs and websites that too without any technical knowledge.

You can guess the popularity of WordPress from the fact that there are 7 million (27% of the Internet) blogs/websites on the Internet that have been created using WordPress. 

What is Wordpress in technical language?

Technically speaking, WordPress is a Free and Open Source Content Management System (CMS) built with the help of PHP (Programming Language) and MySQL (Database). 

Which gives you such a user friendly interface, through which you can create, edit, organize, delete, maintain and publish content for any website or blog very easily. 

What is Benefits of WordPress?

WordPress is a software that is used to create websites/blogs because it is very easy to create a website. You just have to buy hosting from any hosting providing company and you can install WordPress in 1 click by going to their Cpanel. 

You can add new features to WordPress according to your business or need, that too without writing code, you just have to search for the plugin inside WordPress and by pressing a button, you can install it in your WordPress website. 

Not only this, if you want to create an e-commerce website like Amazon, Flipkart and want to sell your products online, then for that you can easily create an e-commerce website with the help of Woo-Commerce plugin. 

Fact about wordpress !

You will be surprised to know that India's largest e-commerce website Flipkart was also built on WordPress first. 

Founder of WordPress. 

Matt Mullenway (WordPress founder) used to use the b2/cafelog platform for blogging. But after some time he came to know that due to some reason Michel Valdrighi who was the founder of b2/cafelog platform has stopped making updates for his platform. 

b2/cafelog was the General Public License plateform, so Matt decided that he would now make an update program for this platform and so he needed a partner and Mike Little (WordPress Co-founder) filled that gap. 

In this way both of them took inspiration from b2/cafelog and created a better platform which was named WordPress. Both of them probably had no idea that this platform would create a new industry of designers, developers, writers, bloggers and web publishers around the world. 

  • On 27th May 2003, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little launched the 1st version of WordPress.
  • Plugin feature was added on May, 2004 so that users can improve the functionality of WordPress. 
  • In 2005, WordPress added the theme feature and new admin dashboard and in the same year wordpress.com was launched. 
  • In 2006, Matt did the trademark registration for WordPress and its logo. 
  • In 2007, a new user interface, autosave and spelling checking feature were added to WordPress 2.1.
  • 2008-2009 Happy Cog web design company joined WordPress Project and created a very user friendly admin dashboard. 
  • WordPress was declared open source in 2010. The advanced media manager and theme customizer feature was added in 2011-2014. 
  • REST API was added in 2015-2016 to build mobile apps

Why wordpress is popular?

Free and Open Source – Because WordPress is open source, thousands of developers contribute to make WordPress better and it is absolutely free because of being open source.

You do not have any kind of limitation from WordPress, that is, you can use WordPress for any personal or commercial purpose and you can purchase domain name and hosting account for your website from anywhere. 

Easy to Use – You can easily install WordPress even with very little technical skills, after that you can easily add new posts, pages, images and plugins, apart from this you can also costomize the color and design of WordPress theme. That too without coding. 

It does not matter whether you are web developer or internet expert or not because the admin dashboard of WordPress is very user friendly and simple and to do all this all you need is internet connection and web browser. 

A user using MS word application can also easily run WordPress. From its dashboard, you can easily create multiple authors for your blog, you can set their limits etc.