{"id":29165,"date":"2022-05-14T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T08:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/?p=29165"},"modified":"2022-08-23T05:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T05:51:54","slug":"what-is-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/what-is-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordPress? An Intro to the World&#8217;s Most Popular Website Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is the world&#8217;s most popular tool to help you launch and manage a website.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress powers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wordpress-and-web-design-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over one-third<\/a> of all the websites on the Internet, and it provides a flexible way to create and customize a website without the need for any special technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>You can use WordPress to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/how-to-make-a-website\/\">create any type of website<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/how-to-start-a-blog\/\">blogs<\/a>, eCommerce stores, portfolio websites, and lots, lots more.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, we&#8217;ll dig deeper into the question of &#8220;what is WordPress&#8221; to help you get familiar with the most popular way to make a website. In total, you&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What WordPress is in more detail<\/li>\n<li>The features that make WordPress so popular<\/li>\n<li>What WordPress is used for<\/li>\n<li>The difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com<\/li>\n<li>What you need to create a WordPress website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is WordPress? Explained in More Detail<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-1.jpg\" alt=\"What is WordPress\" width=\"850\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-1-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-1-768x328.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordPress helps you make a website that is 100% your own.<\/p>\n<p>It does this without requiring you to have any special technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you can install the WordPress software on your own web hosting via a simple setup wizard and then manage and extend your site using an easy-to-use, non-technical interface.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a little more technical, WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS). Let&#8217;s unpack those two statements\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Open-source<\/strong> &#8211; the WordPress software is 100% free and anyone can freely edit its code. The software is maintained by a global community of volunteers &#8211; it&#8217;s not &#8220;owned&#8221; by a single company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content management system<\/strong> &#8211; a CMS helps you manage the content of your website and display it to your visitors. Rather than needing to interact directly with &#8220;code&#8221; to make your website, the CMS gives you a simple interface to upload your content. Then, the CMS will automatically turn that content into a well-designed website for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For example, if you want to publish a blog post on WordPress, you can write your content using a simple editor. You can also create basic layouts and include other elements like images, buttons, and videos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-1.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress editor\" width=\"850\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-1-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, WordPress will take that content and automatically create the &#8220;front-end&#8221; page that people who visit your website will see:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-2.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress content on front-end\" width=\"850\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-2-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wordpress-editor-2-84x60.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beyond managing content, WordPress also makes it easy to extend your site without writing any custom code using two types of add-ons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Themes<\/strong> &#8211; a theme lets you control your site&#8217;s design and style. There are tens of thousands of themes that can help you instantly create everything from a travel blog to a restaurant website to a portfolio site and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plugins <\/strong>&#8211; a plugin helps you add new functionality to your site. That functionality can be small, like a simple contact form, or big, like turning WordPress into a fully-functioning eCommerce platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is WordPress Used For?<\/h2>\n<p>The short answer is that you can use the modern WordPress software to create literally any type of website.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress <em>initially <\/em>started as a tool to help you create a blog. But WordPress has long since expanded to become a general-purpose content management system.<\/p>\n<p>For example, what do you think is the most popular tool to create an eCommerce store? Shopify, maybe? Wix?<\/p>\n<p>Nope! You can see where this is going &#8211; WordPress is actually the <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.builtwith.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most popular<\/a> eCommerce platform in the world, thanks to a plugin called WooCommerce (<em>more on what a &#8220;plugin&#8221; is later<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>You can use WordPress to create a\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog<\/li>\n<li>Business website<\/li>\n<li>eCommerce store<\/li>\n<li>Portfolio or resume website<\/li>\n<li>Forum<\/li>\n<li>Social network<\/li>\n<li>Membership site<\/li>\n<li>Online course<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;you get the idea &#8211; pretty much anything!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also mix-and-match these use cases. For example, you can create a blog that also has a forum. Or, you can create an online course that also has social network functionality to help course-takers interact.<\/p>\n<p>And because there are tens of thousands of WordPress themes and plugins, you can do pretty much all of this without needing to write any code from scratch.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples of Sites Built With WordPress<\/h3>\n<p>To drive home the point that you can use WordPress for pretty much anything, let&#8217;s look at a few specific examples from the 35% of websites using WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>First, you have Design Bombs &#8211; the very site you&#8217;re reading! We use WordPress to power the Design Bombs blog. WordPress did start as a blogging tool, and it still does an excellent job of helping you create a blog.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/allblackshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the official New Zealand All Blacks online shop<\/a>, which uses WordPress and WooCommerce to create an online store:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-1.jpg\" alt=\"All Blacks WordPress shop\" width=\"850\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-1-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another good example is <a href=\"https:\/\/boards.weddingbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Weddingbee<\/a>, which uses WordPress to power a massively popular forum:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-2.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress forum weddingbee\" width=\"850\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-2-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wp101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WP101<\/a>, which uses WordPress to power an online course that teaches people how to use WordPress (<em>that&#8217;s meta<\/em>)! It also incorporates a forum:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-3.jpg\" alt=\"WP101\" width=\"850\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-3-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-examples-3-768x470.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why is WordPress so Popular?<\/h2>\n<p>Once again, WordPress powers 35% of all the websites on the Internet. Let that number sink in &#8211; because it&#8217;s pretty wild to think about just how popular that makes WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>You know those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/website-builders\/\">website builders like Squarespace and Wix<\/a> that you see ads for all the time? They only power 1.6% and 1.3% of websites, respectively. <em>Combined<\/em>, they power less than a tenth of the sites that WordPress does.<\/p>\n<p>So why is WordPress so massively popular?<\/p>\n<p>There are a few big factors that contribute to the success of WordPress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beginner-friendliness <\/strong>&#8211; you don&#8217;t need any special technical knowledge to build a website with WordPress. Even if you have no idea what HTML and CSS are, you can build an awesome website with WordPress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flexibility <\/strong>&#8211; as you learned above, you can use WordPress to build pretty much any type of website. What&#8217;s more, you can do this with tens of thousands of free themes and plugins &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to &#8220;custom code&#8221; anything.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost <\/strong>&#8211; the core WordPress software is 100% free. While there are some other associated costs with running a WordPress site, WordPress is still one of the cheapest ways to build a website.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ownership<\/strong> &#8211; with WordPress, you 100% own your site. There are no rules and no one can delete your account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community <\/strong>&#8211; because WordPress is so popular, there&#8217;s a massive global community of people who use WordPress. This makes it super easy to find help and resources if you ever need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the Difference Between WordPress.org and WordPress.com<\/h2>\n<p>Up until now, we&#8217;ve been talking about &#8220;WordPress&#8221; as if it&#8217;s one single thing. But there&#8217;s this confusing little quirk about WordPress that you might have already run into.<\/p>\n<p>If you search for &#8220;WordPress&#8221; in Google, you&#8217;ll see two websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress.org<\/li>\n<li>WordPress.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So &#8211; what&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you want the long answer, you can check out this entire post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpkube.com\/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org-which-ones-right-for-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the short answer:<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.<strong>org<\/strong> is the free, non-profit, open-source WordPress software that you can install and use to build any type of website. It&#8217;s also called <strong>self-hosted WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we talk about &#8220;WordPress&#8221; on this site, we&#8217;re really referring to the open-source WordPress software at WordPress.<strong>org<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, WordPress.<strong>com<\/strong> is one specific implementation of the WordPress.org software. WordPress.<strong>com<\/strong> is a for-profit service created by the same guy who co-founded the open-source WordPress software.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.com <em>kind of<\/em> helps you build a WordPress site, but you don&#8217;t get access to the same level of flexibility that you get when you use the self-hosted WordPress.org software.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, we always recommend the self-hosted software at WordPress.<strong>org<\/strong> over the for-profit, limited implementation at WordPress<strong>.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Need to Launch a WordPress Website<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-2.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress hosting\" width=\"850\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/what-is-wordpress-2-768x475.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, you should have a pretty good idea of what WordPress is.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about what you need to do to create your own website with WordPress. <em>Again, we&#8217;re referring to the self-hosted WordPress.org software here &#8211; <\/em><strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong><em> WordPress.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To create your own WordPress website, there are really only two things you <em>absolutely<\/em> need beyond the free WordPress software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web hosting<\/strong> &#8211; web hosting is the engine that powers the WordPress software and makes it available to visitors from around the world. When you purchase web hosting, you&#8217;re basically renting space on a computer that will be dedicated to running the WordPress software.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domain name <\/strong>&#8211; your domain name is your WordPress site&#8217;s permanent address on the Internet. For example, ours is <strong>designbombs.com<\/strong>. When someone visits your domain name, your web hosting will then serve up your website to that person&#8217;s browser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because WordPress is so popular, there are tons of web hosting providers with WordPress-specific offerings.<\/p>\n<p>These hosts provide a number of features to make it easier to create and manage a WordPress site, like user-friendly setup wizards to help you install the WordPress software.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve collected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/best-wordpress-hosting\/\">the best WordPress hosting in this article<\/a>, so you can pick any of those providers to get started.<\/p>\n<p>At most hosts, you can also purchase your domain name when you buy your hosting. Some hosts will even give you a domain name for free!<\/p>\n<h2>Get Started With WordPress Today<\/h2>\n<p>At this point, we&#8217;ve fully covered the topic of &#8220;what is WordPress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s time for you to take the next step &#8211; <strong>creating your own website with WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a detailed tutorial to create any type of WordPress website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/how-to-make-a-website\/\">check out our step-by-step how to make a website tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re specifically looking to launch a blog, you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/how-to-start-a-blog\/\">check out our dedicated how to create a blog tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And no matter what type of website you create, you&#8217;ll also want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/wordpress-security\/\">learn how to secure WordPress<\/a>, as well as some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designbombs.com\/best-wordpress-plugins\/\">the must-have WordPress plugins that you should install<\/a> at your site.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any questions about what WordPress is or how you can use it to create your own customizable website? 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