Saturday, 29 December 2018

Wordpress Introduction Tutorial

In this Wordpress Tutorial you will find
-The definition of Wordpress
-You know about the founder of Wordpress
-2018's most outrageous wordpress Statistics
-Career Opportunity
-Know about the web technologies that used in Wordpress
-Advantages
-Disadvantages

WORDPRESS

Wordpress is software for making websites. Wordpress is an Open Source and free web application publishing software. It Started as a tool for blogging and it's also known as a Content Management System (CMS).
Wordpress allows user to build Dynamic websites and blogs that may be updated, customized and managed from its back-end CMS and integrated application and components.
It also called Swiss Army Knife (a component of different knifes in a single knife tool that used by the army). 

The reason behind of calling Swiss knife is that we used Wordpress for all types of websites so that's why we called it Swiss army knife.

WORDPRESS FOUNDER

Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of wordpress and the founder of Automattic the company behind wordpress.com, Akismet, and more.

Wordpress.com is a blogging platform that is owned and hosted online by Automattic. It is run on a modified version of wordpress, an open source piece of software used by bloggers.

2018's MOST OUTRAGEOUS WORDPRESS STATISTICS

The number of total active websites is estimated at over 172 Million according to a Survey published by Netcraft, that means that around 75,000,000 websites are using wordpress now-- with around half those sites (37,500,000) being hosted on the wordpress.com shared hosted installation.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

There is a high demand for skilled freelancers, contractors and direct hires who have skills in Wordpress.
There are number of jobs for a wordpress professional including 
-Writer/Editor
-Web Developer
-Web Designer
-Graphic Designer
-Marketing and Social Media
-Technical Support and Specialist
-Content Management
To get an idea of what people charge for wordpress services, you can visit the Envato market's wordpress or check out the wordpress freelancer at upwork.

WEB TECHNOLOGIES USED IN WORDPRESS

PHP  ⇒ It is a server side programming language. PHP is popular scripting language that used for creating web pages.
Javascript ⇒ Javascript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.
JQuery ⇒ It's a javascript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.
HTML ⇒ It's a markup language based on tags.
CSS ⇒ Cascading Style Sheets define style rule.
MYSQL ⇒ Database

ADVANTAGES OF WORDPRESS

-It is free and Open Source.
-It is simple and easy to use because it does not require PHP nor HTML knowledge unlike Drupal, Joomla or Typo3.
-It have useful support, there must be a large community of users, who will be a part of e.g. a discussion.
-Its provide thousands of free plugins that help you to improve your site functionality.
-It has theme that you easily install it.
-It can host different kind of media like videos,text,pictures etc.
-It has responsive theme that compatible for both mobile and desktop screens.

DISADVANTAGES OF WORDPRESS

-Since wordpress relies on plugins, the open source software is vulnerable to malicious attacks.
-Sometimes update may ruin your sites so be careful while updating wordpress.

4 comments:

  1. useful information. I design websites as I am a graphic designer and want to make that design come to live websites for my client myself, So I think wordpress wouldbe a good iniative as you have mentioned that It does not requires coding skills
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