About WordPress

WordPress is a popular open-source CMS that is loved by the masses due to its flexibility and integration capabilities with thousands of themes and plugins. It’s a value pick among all – bloggers, SMEs, and even enterprises. 

WordPress is well known for its ease of use and flexible ecosystem, it’s built in a way that users can seamlessly create, edit, and organize posts or pages. It improves collaboration with a wide range of pre-built templates, and drag-and-drop functionality, making it accessible for both beginners and professionals.

WordPress is written in PHP and requires MySQL or a compatible database for storing content and settings, it also runs a web server to handle HTTP requests and serve web pages. WordPress is compatible with most web servers, including the Apache Web Server, NGINX, and Microsoft IIS.

WordPress is SEO-friendly- for example, WordPress automatically generates clean and search engine-friendly URLs. It’s easy for you as a user to optimize meta tags and descriptions via plugins. Adding XML sitemaps is easy too. These features enhance the visibility of WordPress websites in search engine results.

As a CMS, it also offers the ability to integrate third-party applications to power different types of websites – News, eCommerce, Automotive, Governments, and more. 

Over 478 Million websites use WordPress, making it one of the biggest CMS providers with a market share of 43%. According to research by Builtwith, WordPress powers 14% of the top 10,000 Websites by traffic.