What Is WordPress and Why It’s Popular for Beginners

What Is WordPress?

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS). This is an open source software where you can manage, publish and create a free website or blog without writing a single line of code. Now it means that you can get free themes and plugins which help you in customizing your website. With a user friendly dashboard everyone can use it.

You just need to buy a domain and hosting to launched your website in just one click with the help of WordPress. It has so many options through which you not only create a website but make it SEO friendly through the help of plugins like Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO. In this blog I will guide you about why you need to choose WordPress as a beginner.

WordPress Functions:

• Themes
• Plugins
• Media Management
• User Management

Themes:

WordPress provides you some built in themes which created by the professionals. You need to choose a theme according to your niche and content. Every theme has it's own design and style which help you to customize it according to your choice. Like you can change colors, fonts , menus, headers and also footers. Include more pages according to your niches.

The best part of using themes is you get multiple ideas, now it depends on you which theme you can choose. If you want to create a simple blog website and earn money from Google AdSense. I will recommend you GeneratePress theme which is mobile and ads friendly. Also it is suitable for a blog website.

Plugins:

WordPress will give you a lot of Plugins and each has it's own functions. These Plugins can make it easier to use a Blog website. Like if you have an  e-commerce stores it will give you WooCommerce plugins. By using it you can add payment gateways, forums and many more features which an online stores need.

Similarly the best part is SEO plugins, which help you to boost your website Growth. It help your website visibility and guide you to write a better content. Plugins can also safe your website from malware, spam, and attacks. There is one plugin which is too famous to boost a website speed known as LiteSpeed Cache Plugin. So, as a beginner you don't need to write proper code and hire a person for every function you can do it all alone.

Media Management:

WordPress will give you a media library where all the images and videos are stored. You can easily manage them from it. Now if you don't use WordPress you can use every image one by one and upload it to the hosting server which is too time consuming. But in WordPress once an image or video uploaded you can use it anywhere in your pages. 

It can save your time and also allow you to add images in overall website. You can also use it in Blogger but there. The media library can't be accessed when you are in a post editor.  But in WordPress using the same image multiple times is so easy.

User Management:

Managing different users at a time in custom website is not possible. You need to give them full access or both need a full knowledge of programming language. But in WordPress if you want to add a manager or post editor you can easily do it. Just give them access according to their roles.

Why WordPress is Popular for Beginners?

The main reason behind using WordPress as a beginner is, it is too friendly and easy to understand and learn. Anyone can learn within a month if a person is serious about learning. The thing is mostly people can't afford the high hosting but for WordPress you don't need a big hosting.

For bloggers WordPress is too good. With a lot of functions and easy to use interface anyone can start it. I also recommend you to use WordPress if you want to make a website for yourself and working on your own projects.

Conclusion:

It depends on your goals, why you choose this field. If you want to learn full web development and in future work on different projects like creating websites for the clients and work in big companies. Then don't learn WordPress and start with learning a complete programming language.

But if you want to create a website for yourself and earn money from it. Then you can choose WordPress it is easy to understand and you can easily create a professional websites on it. I also did this mistake by starting from Blogger but now I understand the WordPress and working on different websites.