Description

WordPress is the easiest and most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers over 43.3% of all websites on the Internet. Yes – more than one in four websites you visit is probably powered by WordPress.

WordPress is an open source content management system under the GPLv2 license, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free. A content management system is a basic tool that makes it easy to manage important parts of your website – such as content – without needing to know anything about programming.

The bottom line is that WordPress makes creating a website accessible to anyone, even non-developers.

Why is WordPress so popular?

WordPress is used by about half a billion other websites, including famous names like TechCrunch, The New Yorker, Variety, the Swedish government site, and the Walt Disney Company. Tip: To see if a site is running WordPress, you can check the source page and search for “WordPress” or “wp-” if you see a directory like “wp-include” or “wp -content”, the site is. is running. WordPress.

WordPress continues to grow like crazy with over 500 new sites being built every day. Over the past three years, WordPress’ market share among website powering software has grown by about 8%, from 27.3% in 2019 to 35.2% in 2020.

Surprisingly, WordPress now powers more websites than websites that don’t use any CMS: