What is WordPress?. It is an Open-Source Content Management software(CMS). It is easy to build websites, blogs, and also useful for bloggers, publishers, business owners maintaining their online presence to reach audiences they will update daily activities in WordPress.
This is the most popular CMS tool and easy to create websites, blogs without requiring coding or programming knowledge which means, anyone can create WordPress websites even persons who are not having knowledge of coding(developers). So that we can develop websites in WordPress even for persons who do not have programming skills.
One of the popular CMS tools i.e, WordPress is written in PHP language and using database MySQL. We can create any type of business websites and blogs. It is easy to customize the site at any time.
This can install WordPress on localhost as well as online hosting(server), beginners work in localhost to practice WordPress and even developers also work in localhost to test this without effect to the online website. In this, we can try different plugins and themes in localhost to test their features. If you use localhost that you only can see it on your computer. For beginners who want to update a live website first, you want to test in localhost after all are fine then only update your live website.
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Designing of different types of websites are
- Corporate websites (company websites).
- Blog with your services or products or publishers and more.
- E-commerce websites (for different types of business).
- Portfolio websites.
- Magazine websites.
- Landing page websites.
- News updates websites.
- Educational websites.
- Online tutorial websites.
- Personal websites.
- CV websites and many more….
WordPress was developed by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little on May 27, 2003.