No matter who you are, or wherever you are, if you're looking to starting a blog or creating your first website, even if you're looking to set up a website for your business, WordPress is the place for you.
But first, an introduction is in order.
WordPress lets you create absolutely free blogs and websites, and is completely open source.
It allows one to create anything from simple blogs to extremely professional websites.
Users have access to an overabundance of plugins which can be incorporated into their websites, as well as a huge selection of themes at their disposal.
Both of these features are, by far WordPress's biggest strengths.
According to statistics, WordPress currently manages an excess of the top 1 million websites on the internet, and also makes up over 20% of all new websites on the internet.
A user usually starts with a free.
WordPress.
com domain, and allows users to create an unlimited number of such domains.
Dot com domains can also be bought for an extremely cheap price.
WordPress dashboard is an extremely powerful tool, which contains, quite literally, a ton of tools to harness the full power of your blog.
This dashboard provides the user with adding, editing and deleting posts to his or her blog, adding pages to the blog, managing comments and feedback, adding and managing users, and making appearance related changes such as changing themes and adding widgets.
Speaking of which, a slew of plugins and widgets can also be added to one's blog.
These plugins enhance the capability of any blog or website, for instance the user can link their Facebook or Twitter accounts to his or her blog using the available plugins, and this can be done on the simple click of a button.
Most of the themes are free but a lot of paid-for themes are also available.
These themes completely change the look and appearance of one's blog and can be incorporated at the click of a mouse button.
In accordance with the open source nature of WordPress, the themes can be edited if one is familiar with PHP and HTML.
Themes allow users to completely change the look of their blogs, thus allowing them to tailor their blog according to their specific requirements.
Before I end this extremely basic introduction to WordPress, I have to mention what is quite possibly, the best theme on WordPress - the Thesis Theme.
People thinking of starting their blogs to people managing WordPress websites and looking to give them an appearance overhaul should definitely check out the Thesis Theme.
It is, by far, one of the best themes out there, absolutely beautiful to look at, and allow users to customize the layout of their blogs EXACTLY how they want to.
And for the more technically adept of us out there, it's totally SEO-ready!
But first, an introduction is in order.
WordPress lets you create absolutely free blogs and websites, and is completely open source.
It allows one to create anything from simple blogs to extremely professional websites.
Users have access to an overabundance of plugins which can be incorporated into their websites, as well as a huge selection of themes at their disposal.
Both of these features are, by far WordPress's biggest strengths.
According to statistics, WordPress currently manages an excess of the top 1 million websites on the internet, and also makes up over 20% of all new websites on the internet.
A user usually starts with a free.
WordPress.
com domain, and allows users to create an unlimited number of such domains.
Dot com domains can also be bought for an extremely cheap price.
WordPress dashboard is an extremely powerful tool, which contains, quite literally, a ton of tools to harness the full power of your blog.
This dashboard provides the user with adding, editing and deleting posts to his or her blog, adding pages to the blog, managing comments and feedback, adding and managing users, and making appearance related changes such as changing themes and adding widgets.
Speaking of which, a slew of plugins and widgets can also be added to one's blog.
These plugins enhance the capability of any blog or website, for instance the user can link their Facebook or Twitter accounts to his or her blog using the available plugins, and this can be done on the simple click of a button.
Most of the themes are free but a lot of paid-for themes are also available.
These themes completely change the look and appearance of one's blog and can be incorporated at the click of a mouse button.
In accordance with the open source nature of WordPress, the themes can be edited if one is familiar with PHP and HTML.
Themes allow users to completely change the look of their blogs, thus allowing them to tailor their blog according to their specific requirements.
Before I end this extremely basic introduction to WordPress, I have to mention what is quite possibly, the best theme on WordPress - the Thesis Theme.
People thinking of starting their blogs to people managing WordPress websites and looking to give them an appearance overhaul should definitely check out the Thesis Theme.
It is, by far, one of the best themes out there, absolutely beautiful to look at, and allow users to customize the layout of their blogs EXACTLY how they want to.
And for the more technically adept of us out there, it's totally SEO-ready!