What is WordPress?
WordPress is a management system of contents (CMS) that allows you to create and maintain a blog or other website.
With almost 10 years of existence and more than one thousand themes (templates)available on its website official, is not only a simple and intuitive system to create apersonal blog, but it allows you to perform all sorts of more complex web.
WordPress is an ideal system for a web site that is updated regularly. If writes contents with some frequency, when someone accesses the web site, you can find all those contents in chronological order (first the most recent and finally the oldest).
It is the ideal system for beginners, or for those who do not have too much technical knowledge.
WordPress has a plugin system, which allow you to extend the capabilities of WordPress, that provides a more flexible CMS.
We have already answered the question about what is wordpress, we are now goingto explain more.
What can I do with WordPress?
In many cases WordPress is associated with a tool that only serves to make blogs. This is not correct: with WordPress can make a blog and much more: corporate websites, shops, newspaper, online, digital, central reservations, etc. Then we will see some of the things that we create with this CMS.
Blog
It is his best-known function. WordPress incorporates, in your installation by defaultall the typical features of a blog: show items in format blog, add comments to entries, possibility to organize articles by categories or tags, etc.
Also several modules called widgets in WordPress, regular blogs can be added on the web: list of categories of the blog, list of tags, search, list of most read articles, list of recent reviews, etc.
All this to say that WordPress may be the best tool to create a blog, more so if it is important if we take into account its ease of use.
example wordpress blog
Corporate website
WordPress can be used perfectly to create a business website, meaning that a pagewhere we can inform about everything concerning our company or business: aboutus, services, clients, etc.
Thanks to the multitude of templates available for WordPress we can achieve very varied designs to our website, which could go from a web with minimalist design andshowing little to information, to complete websites that load much data on each page.
You can create different sections on our Web site to organize the content. These arenot limited to static pages, or a page of blog, but thanks to the thousands of plugins available for WordPress can add more functionality as a form of contact, Forum, directory, etc.
example company wordpress
Online shop
Even if there are other specific content management systems to create stores online(PrestaShop, Magento, etc.), WordPress can be a completely valid option, since there are several plugins that allow us to incorporate online in our web shop. Of them all, WooCommerce would be the preferable option, although we can choose anotherplugin.
Thanks to WordPress and the plugin WooCommerce can have an online store with all the typical features that we hope to find in an application of this type: create unlimited products, organization of products by category, possibility of adding attributes to products, various payment systems and shipping, advanced management of orders, etc.
Features of our store will not end that incorporates the own WooCommerce, they we add hundreds of new options thanks to the specific plugins for it: massive importation of products, portes shipping by zip code, credit card payment gateways, pricesof product quantity, generation of invoices, etc.
example store wordpress
And much more...
As we said before, the thousands of plugins available for WordPress will allow us toextend the capabilities of our website in WordPress, in order to achieve almost anything: forum support, review of reserve management, business directory, channel ofvideos, etc. If add you to this the thousands of themes (templates) available, the chances to get any type of web are almost endless.
How do I install WordPress?
The ease of use of WordPress not only is limited to content management, but the installation process is also very simple, and only a few minutes will be needed to complete it.
First of all we will have to have a place where to install our WordPress. We can do iton our local computer, if on it we have installed a web server (e.g. Apache) or do it on a hosting service. Only with this last option, you will be able