Facts you need to know about WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system. More that 37% websites on the internet is created in WordPress.

There are 2 types of WordPress –

WordPress.com– This is a self hosted solution. WordPress will take care of hosting and domain.

WordPress.org– This will give you files for free and you have to host it with your own domain.

Millions of companies whether it is small and large and bloggers have chosen WordPress to start their websites.

This was a little introduction but there are some factors that you may not know or you may know some of them. Let’s start –

Open source and free

WordPress is free and open-source, comes under GNU GPL(General Public License) license which is freely available for all. So anyone can download and use it.

It is not owned by any company

It is owned by WordPress foundation which is a non-profit organization that owns the ‘WordPress’ trademark, created by it’s co-founder Matt Mullenweg.

It doesn’t have a CEO

It is run by volunteer developers from all over the world and does not have a CEO.

Trending in education

Now 40+ popular universities, colleges, and schools all over the world are using WordPress.

Used by governments of all over the world

WordPress has become so popular today that the government sector is also taking advantage of it in many of its projects.

More than 50,000 free plugins

Currently more than 50,000 WordPress plugins available for Free to improve your website.

Available in 68+ languages

Themes and plugins available in different languages and fully translated into 68 languages and some of the popular plugins like WPML, Weglot, Polylang are used for multilingual websites.

Sites are easy to manage

WordPress sites are very easy to manage both in terms of maintenance and the client’s perspective.
This is the most popular content management system in the world. Most of the websites use WordPress than any other content management system in the world.

Not just for blogging

It started as a blogging platform but now people are using it to create websites for local and worldwide purposes. Here is the list of websites that you can easily build with WordPress –

  • eCommerce stores
  • Commercial websites
  • Blogs
  • Portfolios
  • Resumes
  • Forums
  • Social networks
  • Membership sites
  • and many more

We hope this article helped you a lot and you learn some new interesting facts about WordPress.

Read also: Thrive Themes – WordPress themes and plugins

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