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What is WordPress?

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Source
YouTube / Doteasy Web Hosting
Date
2017-01-04
Location
Iroquois County, IL
Material
Transcript
Extent
302 words · about 2 min
Collected
2026-06-06

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001WordPress is an online web software that allows you to build and customize your own website besides being a blogging tool WordPress is also a very powerful content management system that allows you to add edit and customize your content on your site by yourself without the need for learning a complex programming language because it's the most popular content management system over 25% of websites on the Internet are built with WordPress and that number is only growing due to its ease of use WordPress is the fastest growing content management system also known as CMS WordPress is always evolving and improving and allows for the addition of plugins and themes created by others with which you can change the entire look and feel of your site so why is WordPress so great well websites are built with a

002coding language known as HTML before tools like WordPress existed you would have to know this language to build a functioning website with WordPress you're enabled to log in to its online website editor where everything can be customized with the text editor without the need to know HTML if you know how to type or use basic word processing tools you can use WordPress because of the way it's built WordPress can also work on almost any web server WordPress is also free to use as its open source it's also incredibly user-friendly it allows you to easily manage your content using basic formatting tools with plugins and themes you can change the entire look of your site [Music] or add features with thousands of themes and plugins available for installation to your website another point of note is

003that a lot of these themes and plugins are free to use finally WordPress is SEO friendly meaning it allows the user to customize the permalink structure which will give your pages a more search friendly URL we will cover this topic more in depth in our upcoming video so stay tuned for details as you can see WordPress is a flexible and easy to use tool without the need for knowledge of the HTML programming language with WordPress you can build your website how you want [Music] you

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