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What is WordPress and what can be done with it

We've already talked about statistics of Internet, and well known is the overwhelming dominance WP have achieved since many years. WordPress biggest goal is to be a fully customizable CMS. Thanks to its open source coding any programmer with skills to do it can make what he wants with a WP installation. But if you're reading this you probably have no idea about what is WordPress. So let's start from the beginning. ¿What is WordPress? WordPress is what's called a Content Manager System (CMS). As it names suggest, it's a software system that facilitates publishing content on Internet. If you want to launch a blog or any kind of website by your own, you must make the software from scratch. You will need advanced programming skills for that, and some other knowledge such as web design, server management and many more tech abilities. With WP you don't need to know nothing of that. You just have to install WordPress in a server and connect your domain wit...

The most basic knowledge of WordPress

We’ve already talked about what is WordPress and what can be done with it . We’re going to go a little further now explaining the most basic concepts about WordPress, so you can keep on learning with a solid knowledge of the basis. Assuming you’ve already installed WordPress on a server and linked your domain correctly, there are few things you must know at first. Before you start blogging and customizing your website. So let’s start from the beginning: Making it look like you want: One of the first issues you face when starting a website is the theme choice. It’s a very important decision since it’s about the theme your website is going to use until you decide to change it. And that’s not going to happen in a long time, or maybe never if you make the right choice. There are plenty of themes out there to use, all kind of themes with many different objectives and recommendations of use. A theme is like the clothing of your WP, it applies its design to every page of WP and ...