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WordpressBen Mulpeter
What is wordpress?
Wordpress is a free Content management system (CMS)
It allows free tools to help design your website and free hosting for it
It’s open source which means the source code for wordpress is freely available.
It has a back end called a dashboard which is where you can modify your webpage and what the visitor to your page would see on the front end
History of wordpress
It was initially released on the 27th May 2003
It was founded by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
It was released under the GNU GPLv2 which meant it was open source and free
Since it’s release it has gone on to archive massive success and is widely used for modern websites all around the world
Over it’s lifetime it’s been updated and refined and is now on version 4.2
It has also received new features and become more advanced over it’s lifetime
First version of wordpress
Current version of wordpress (4.2)
Features of wordpress Simplicity – wordpress is extremely simple to use and
to set up
Flexible – wordpress can be used to create a range of websites
Multilingual – It is available in over 70 different languages which means that the more people form around the world can make wordpress sites and also view wordpress sites
Easy publishing – The interface for creating new posts and pages is really intuitive and simple to use
Themes and plug-ins – Wordpress has a massive library of themes to change the appearance of your site easily and plug-ins to extend it’s functionality
Community – Because it is open source and is so popular there is a massive community of people out there using wordpress
Wordpress statistics
Wordpress is used by more than 23% of the top 10 million websites on the web as of January 2015
There are 74.6 million websites worldwide that are powered by wordpress
22% of new registered US domains run on wordpress
Wordpress only employs 229 people
On average there are 6 new wordpress posts every second from all across the globe
There are over 29,000 wordpress plugins and that’s increasing daily
Wordpress runs 4.5%of the entire internet
Who uses wordpress?
BBC America
Sony music
MTV news
eBay
Xerox
Yahoo
Tech crunch
Sweden.se
Toyota
Flickr
Samsung
Here are some examples of large companies using wordpress
Why you should use wordpress?
It’s free - To host your website and to use their tools to design it doesn’t cost you anything
There are tones of plug-ins – There are loads of plug-ins that help to extend the functionality of your website
Loads of themes – Like plug ins there are loads of themes available for wordpress that let you pick how you want your site to look
It’s simple – As far as creating your own website goes it’s almost as simple as it gets
Help - if you ever get stuck there is a online manual on how to use wordpress at wordpress.org along with loads of other help across the web.
Benefits to using wordpress
Wordpress is free unless you want to buy premium themes for your website
You can buy premium themes that will cost you money because they are designed by outside company‘s
Its good if you have none or limited technical knowledge about the web because it’s easy to create and publish stuff to your site
Plug ins help Search engine optimisation (SEO) which means people searching in google or bing will have a better chance of finding your site if it’s relevant to what they are looking for
Wordpress works on mobile devices to view your site and also to edit and contribute to it
It also has been around for 12 years so has had time to become more sophisticated as a platform
It works well with social media and has lots of social plug ins
Drawbacks to using wordpress
If a security flaw is discovered in wordpress then your website could be hacked into.
Out of the box it isn’t very good at SEO so you have to install plug ins to make your site more SEO friendly
While the content on your site is protected by copyright the ideas and concept of your site isn’t so anyone can copy it
Updates to wordpress can break your site especially if you have a heavily customised theme
Plug-ins can have their own security variabilities and might not be kept as up to date as wordpress
Wordpress can be slow at times
It can be hard to make a website look original because everyone if using similar themes
Recommendations Despite these negatives I would still
recommend people to use wordpress
Make use of the thousands of plug ins
Change your theme to something more suited to your site
Take advantage of the wordpress community
Install a SEO plug in
Customise your site
Keep an eye out for security flaws
Keep you version of wordpress up to date along with all plug-ins
Install an analytics plug in to view and track the visitors to your site
Bibliography
http://moodle.brightfuture.co.uk/course/view.php?id=59
Unit 1 - Employability Skills for IT Assignment Brief-1
https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage