About WordPress

  • WordPress started in 2003
    • It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
  • WordPress is an Open Source projectwordpress_use_graph

    • WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of  the top 10 million websites as of August 2013
    • WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites

What You Can Use WordPress For

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system.

  • Personal blog
  • Photoblog
  • Business website
  • Professional portfolio
  • Government website
  • Magazine or news website
  • E-commerce Application

WordPress FeaturesWP_feature

  • Simplicity
  • Flexibility :   With WordPress, you can create any type of website you want
  • Publish with Ease :  You can create Posts and Pages, format them easily.
  • User Management
  • Easy Theme System
  • Extend with Plugins
  • Built-in Comments
  • Search Engine Optimized
  • Easy Installation and Upgrades
  • Community

Famous Brands That Use WordPress

Georgia State’s  univercity : http://www.gsu.edu/

Sweden’s Official Site: https://sweden.se/

Bata is a family-owned global footwear and fashion accessory manufacturer and retailer : http://www.bata.com/

Coca-Cola France  The French site of the popular soft drink runs on WordPress:  http://www.coca-cola.fr/

Sony Music Entertainment : http://www.sonymusic.com/

Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City, and the flagship publication of Time Inc:  http://www.times.com/

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WordPress is a powerful semantic publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible.