About
WordPress is perhaps the most popular website builder in the world and it was used by 43.1% of the top 10 million websites as of December 2023. It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
Available as free and open-source software, WordPress is written in PHP language paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database, and it needs to be installed on a web server to function.
Features
1. Design:
- Professionally designed and customizable themes
- Intuitive drag-and-drop block editor
- Advanced design tools such as control over website CSS code
- Supports multiple types of media
- Over 50,000 plugins available to extend the website’s functionality
- Staging sites to test changes before impacting the live site
2. Marketing:
- Social media connectivity
- SEO tools
- Email newsletter
- Custom domains
- Form functionality
- Blogging
3. Business:
- Payment collection
- Connection to advertising tools
- E-Commerce store available through WooCommerce