What is WordPress? Why Use WordPress?
WordPress is software designed for everyone. It is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog. WordPress powers over 39.6% of all the websites on the Internet in 2021. There are an estimated 64 million websites currently using WordPress. Over 400 million people visit WordPress websites every month. Yes, more than one in four websites that you visit are powered by WordPress. More than 660 new WordPress sites go live each and every day.
WordPress Is Free and Open Source
It has a simple content management system. One of the biggest benefits of WordPress is that it’s free, open-source software. When it comes to software, open-source refers to a type of license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone for any purpose. On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free. Just you will need to pay a little bit for hosting, you will never have to pay just to use the WordPress software. A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website. Continue reading…