01 WordPress 101 What is WordPress Video Lecture | WORDPRESS Premium- Tools and Tips - IT & Software

WordPress is one of the most popular
tools in the world for creating a
website created in 2003 and whilst
initially known for blogging or press
can now be used as a content management
system or CMS and needs to create any
type of website or blog the core
WordPress software is available free and
is maintained and developed and with new
features added by hundreds of developers
all around the world and in fact
WordPress is open-source license means
that anybody can contribute to the
development of the platform WordPress
itself is free but to run it you will
need a web host that's somewhere where
you can install WordPress and use it in
order to run your site it's your own
little space on the Internet WordPress
popularity means it's supported by
virtually all web hosts and you can even
get hosts which offer services such as a
one-click install so it shouldn't take
more than five minutes to get WordPress
running on your site you can also host
your own website for free using
wordpress.com which will provide you for
the free hosting for your site with
premium add-ons available but you get a
little less control about how it works
WordPress is powered by something called
the dashboard and here this is the
really the control center of your site
and what's more it's really easy to use
from the dashboard you can customize
essentially everything about your site
and adding content is really easy if you
know how to use a text editor such as
Microsoft Word then you're going to know
how to be able to create content in
WordPress you can add content such as
posts with fields here for a title and
the familiar bold italic and other
styling options for your text you can
also drag and drop images or other media
into the post and then to put that onto
your site all you need to do is click
publish what's more you can also apply
pre-built designs or themes to your site
in order to get a professional-looking
design at little or no cost hundreds and
thousands of different themes are
available so you know you're going to be
able to
something that suits your site and is
being able to install these prepackaged
themes which really answer the
extensibility of WordPress and in fact
services such as my theme shop offer
premium WordPress themes or you can
purchase premium designs such as
e-commerce business magazine websites or
personal blogs a little cost but have
that professional design available to
you
WordPress also uses things called
plugins which are little bits of code
that you can plug in to your site and
almost add functionality to it you can
add things such as contact forms
translations subscriber forms anti-spam
tools and much much more
there are thousands and thousands of
free and premium plugins available which
allow you to really add to the
functionality of your site and finally
when versus functionality means it's a
huge amount of support available to you
so you can really get to know how to use
the WordPress software without needing
professional help every time you need to
change something there's a huge amount
of tutorials and video tutorials and
documentation available and if you
purchase a premium a theme or plugin
then you're going to get premium
professional support available to you
well press is web software that you can
use to create a beautiful website or
blog it's one of the most popular in the
world and is hugely flexible and
functional millions of websites are
using WordPress and hopefully this video
showed you why you should to