2. Most popular blogging tool, used on the Web at
more than 60 million websites
What is
WordPress?
3. • Introduction of WordPress
• History of WordPress
• Plugins in WordPress
• What you can create in WordPress
• WordPress vs. Joomla vs. Drupal
• Best WordPress websites
Highlights
4. • Released in 2003.
• WordPress is a Powerful Content Management System (CMS)
based on PHP and MySQL.
• Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging
tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of
millions of people every day.
• As of August 2014, more than 23% of the top 10 millions
websites used worpress.
Introduction
5. • Completely Free for commercial and private use
• Open Source Project
• Constantly Creating , evolving and Improving
• 100’s of volunteers contributing to core
• Thousands of Plugins ,Widget and Themes
6. • User friendly
• No need for expensive “webmasters”
• Easily manage and update your own
content.
• No need to learn complicated HTML.
7. • Flexible and Extensible
• Thousands of Plugins ,Widget and Themes available
• Easily change the look of your website.
• Add new features in just a few clicks.
8. • Support options
• Easy to find help from WordPress experts
• Online video tutorials
• Get answers to your questions online
10. In WordPress, "code that adds a
feature to your site“ is known as
"plugin“. You can go to the
WordPress Plugin Directory and
browse thousands of free plugins.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/
Plugins in WordPress
11. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
• If you want to make powerful
websites without worry about the
technical aspects and coding of
it, you have three options.
• WordPress, Drupal and Joomla
have build their reputation as the
leaders of online Content
Management Systems.
• It doesn't matter how much you know about computer and
technology, you can build a website in any of them, quick and easy
due to their incredible system. Want to select one of them, its gonna
be a difficult choice to make.
12. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
RELEASED
WordPress : Released in 2003 by Matt Mullenwegg
Joomla : Released in 2005, forked from Mambo
Drupal : Released in 2001 by Dries Buytaert
POPULARITY
WordPress : more than 140 million download
Joomla : more than 30 million download
Drupal : more than 15 million download
14. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
MANUAL INSTALLATION TIMES
WordPress : 5 min
Joomla : 10 min
Drupal : 10 min
EASE OF MODERATION
WordPress :
Joomla :
Drupal :
15. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
LEVEL OF “SKILLS” NEEDED TO OPERATE
WordPress :
Joomla :
Drupal :
UPDATE FREQUENCY
WordPress : 42 days
Joomla : 36 days
Drupal : 51 days
16. Why WordPress is better than
Others ?
• Customizable : WordPress has more themes, plugins and other
customization than its fellow competitor. This is mainly due to
popularity, so the designer of these items always create more for
WordPress.
• Easy to Install : Installation Of WordPress has become easy
due to the automatic installation offered by hosting companies
like iPage. You can have a new site up and running in well
under five minutes. You can also create a new sites in less than
a hour with manual installation.
• Community Support : Millions of people are using worpress,
which means a lot of people out there to help you when you
have problems which you may have. You can get help within
minutes from the contributors of support forum.
17. Why WordPress is better than
Others ?
• Themes : There are more than 7000 themes available more
than its competitor. Most of them are freely available.
• Quality Plugins : You can’t add functionality to your WordPress
site very quickly, in that case plugin comes very handy .
WordPress provide many quality plugins which makes your task
easy & quick. Best of all, you can get free plugins to do most
things perfectly well. Most plugins are downloaded, installed and
configured in a no time. WordPress emphasis on ease-of-use
seems to have rubbed off on the plug-in writers!
• Focus : Drupal and Joomla are design as complete CMS
whereas WordPress was designed to solve problems. This is
because WordPress has a clear target audience (bloggers).
18. What you can create in WordPress
• Blogging website
• Static website
• Directory submission
• Classified site
• Create an article repository
• Image gallery
• Review website
• Discussion forum
• Membership website
• e-commerce website
• And Many more……..
