What Is WordPress?

What Is WordPress?

You may have seen this online giant around the internet. What a lot of people may or may not know is what exactly it is and what it does. Some use this as a blogging platform, it’s actually extremely popular to use as such. But what some people don’t know is can even be used to create elaborate websites as well as being an open source platform to create and use plugins that make it what it is today online. Now, there are two different websites that WordPress has and that can be used, but they are used for two very different things.

So, where do you go to get what you need accomplished? WordPress.Org or WordPress.Com? Well, WordPress.Com is where you will be registering your account if you’d like someone to do all the dirty work for you. They will host your blog, as well as give you a wide selection of themes. They give you access to the WordPress forums and also there’s no need to install plugins onto this platform.

Now WordPress.Org is where you get into the more technical side of things. It offers a lot more customization than using a WordPress.Com blog. You are able to not only install and use custom plugins, but you can code your own to make it even more customizable, although, with WordPress.Org you will need to host your website yourself on another platform such as HostGator. WordPress.Org also allows you to use custom themes as well as make your own. This is ideal for a business owner as the website that you create, will be more of a reflection of yourself or your business seeing as it is so extremely customizable and there is also no need to create an account here. In the end it is all up to you which platform suits your needs the most. Are you into blogging and letting them do all the technical work, or are you more independent and more into the fact that you can customize literally every aspect of your website, even though it requires a bit more technical knowledge on your side?

Regardless of what you choose, WordPress is an extremely powerful tool used just about everywhere online. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that it will be around for years to come. It’s a very amazing and sometimes lucrative talent to have being able to use. There are so many people online who will be willing to pay for someone to create a website using WordPress.Org because of the difficulty level, but, with the right plugins, you can laugh all the way to the bank when you find out how easy it truly can be. All you need is a little knowledge and you’ll discover a whole new world online. Want to know how to get started installing WordPress onto your website? Stick around and I will personally be here to help. We are in this together.