WordPress

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About WordPress

What is WordPress?

WordPress is open-source software built initially for blogs. The benefits include a blog, content management system, and plugins that increase functionality. The most significant advantage is that no coding experience is needed.

WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com

The primary difference between the two is that WordPress.com is a managed hosting model while WordPress.org is not. In other words, if you go to WordPress.com, everything will be packaged for you. The hosting will be included in that package. With WordPress.org, you can download the software from a hosting company of your choice. Almost all hosting companies offer WordPress as a free install. You can download any themes and add the plugins you wish. It would be safe to say that WordPress.org gives you more freedom of choice.

What can I build with WordPress?
Just about anything. Gaze at the following list of possibilities.

About WordPress

Which one is right for you?
It depends on your knowledge of WordPress, plugins, and hosting services. If you are new to WordPress or don’t have time to learn it, you may want to go with WordPress.com. It has more of a packaged feel and tools ready to go.

Of course, if you are a WordPress developer with vast experience, you would go with WordPress.org. You may want to become more educated in WordPress and all the plugins. The best way to learn is to immerse yourself in WordPress.

What is Next

WordPress is continuously evolving to address the needs of the millions of web publishers around the world. The direction of WordPress directly depends on the needs of users. We can safely assume that it will continue to empower people around the world to create wonderful web spaces.

Blog
Business
e-Commerce
Portfolio
Multilingual
Magazine or Digital Publishing

Amazon Affiliate Store
Multisite Network
Online Course
Membership Based
Pay-Per-View
Podcast

Job Website
Affiliate Site
Job Board
Business Directory
Auction
Reservation
Non-Profit
Travel

History

May 2003

The first version of WordPress was introduced.

May 2004

The introduction to plugins.

February 2005

The pages were added, and a theme system was revamped.

March 2006

Filed the trademark registration for WordPress and WordPress logo.

June 2008

New features were added to make it easier to use.

June 2010

Transferred the WordPress trademark and logo ownership to the WordPress Foundation.

2011

More new plugins arrived.

2012

Theme customizer, theme previews, and a new media manager were introduced.

2013

Automatic update feature.

2014

Improved the visual post editor.

2015

Focused on improved localization, emoji support, theme customizer, and laying down infrastructure for the WordPress REST API.

2016

The most notable changes were streamlined updates for plugins and themes, content recovery using browser storage, and a custom CSS feature for theme customization custom CSS feature for theme customizer.

2017

Brought several new default widgets to add audio, video, images, gallery, rich text, and HTML.

2018

The new WordPress block editor project was codenamed, Gutenberg.

2019

WordPress started implementing the Site Health project into the core.

2020

Entire Site Editing experience, automatic updates were added, and block directories, block patterns, and lazy loading images were introduced.

2021

Full site editing features with WordPress 5.7 and 5.8. A new templates feature was introduced along with several site-wide blocks to easily create site-wide templates in WordPress.

2022

WordPress will focus on improving the entire site editing experience.

WordPress Resources

How to load WordPress – envisionwebhost

How to enable WordPress Multisite – envisionwebhost