- Understanding WordPress
WordPress is a popular open source application used as a (blog engine). WordPress is built with the PHP programming language and MySQL database. Not only as an open source application, WordPress is also used as a CMS and is currently one of the most widely used CMS in the world.
- Advantages of WordPress
WordPress has many advantages that you can use for business needs, including:
- Open source which means you can use WordPress without paying.
- Templates and designs are very easy to customize according to user needs.
- It is easy to import from other sites.
- There are many additional plugins and templates that you can download and use for free.
- Has multi-category features in one article.
- Trackback and Pingback facilities.
- There is a text formatting facility similar to a word processing program.
- And so forth.
- WordPress Features
There are many features that WordPress provides even during a normal installation, including:
- Article Management – In this feature you can manage anything related to articles such as writing, deleting, and creating tags for each post.
- Users – You can add teams to this feature according to their respective tasks and roles in managing the website. Can be admin, writer, editor and others. In this feature you also have access to change passwords and set security.
- Menu Pages – If on a website page you can usually see a menu lined up with the Home menu. In the pages feature, you can add other pages similar to the home page. In general, the features of posts and pages are almost the same.
- Media – You can view and manage all image and video content using this feature.
- Comment Management – You can manage what comments are allowed on your articles, filter out unnecessary comments and delete unnecessary comments. You can also reply to all incoming comments through this feature.
- Theme Management – Do you want to change and customize the appearance of your website?, use this feature to do so. There are many options, such as customizing a live theme and setting the theme directly to the source code.
- Plugins – Among the other most interesting features are plugins. You can add other features according to your needs such as SEO, custom pages, SSL, and so on through the plugin features.