What is WordPress and how does WordPress work? WordPress. org vs .com
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In this article, we going to discuss what is WordPress and how WordPress works. What are plugins and themes inside WordPress? What is the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org? Which type of websites you can make using WordPress?
What Is WordPress?
WordPress is an open-source content management software that is written in the programming language PHP and uses MYSQL as a database.
We can understand more about WordPress by understanding what the is difference between making websites from scratch and in WordPress?
Suppose you start making websites from scratch then you have to knowledge about HTML, CSS, and programming languages such as Javascript. In WordPress, you can still make websites without knowing of any of this.
If you know additional programming languages such as PHP in which WordPress is built. Then You can make themes and plugins for WordPress.
What are themes and plugins?
Themes and plugins are two main components of WordPress. Plugins help us to add new features to the WordPress website. Suppose the woocommerce plugin helps us to add e-commerce functionality. Themes helps us to design websites.
Generally, there are two types of plugins. First, totally free plugins, Second some features are free, and pay if you want more features inside plugins. Suppose rank math SEO is a plugin for SEO. They provide some features for free and for more features, you have to purchase a plugin from their website. The same concept applied to themes.
WordPress.com vs wordpress.org
If you search WordPress on Google. You found two websites wordpress.com and wordpress.org. WordPress.com is WordPress’s own hosting service.
On wordpress.org you can download the WordPress software script yourself and host it wherever you want. There are two main types of hosting services found in the market. (VPS hosting and Shared hosting)
You can install downloaded WordPress scripts in VPS hosting such as Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, or AWS. For this first, you have to install an Apache server, PHP, and mysql database on VPS. In shared hosting service provider companies like Godday, Namecheap, and many others you can install WordPress in a single click. Then, you no need to download WordPress software from wordpress.org.
Which type of website can be built with WordPress?
You can make a blog or a simple 5-6 page website about any business, websites for real estate, e-commerce, educational, and many more using WordPress. Generally to build a more complex website you have to purchase plugins. Suppose You have 2-3 websites in mind as examples in your domain. You can check which technology a particular website is built on using Wappalyzer or built with Chrome extension. Additionally, this extension shows some plugins and themes used by a specific WordPress website. Sometimes also shows the website hosting provider.
