The document provides an extensive overview of WordPress, introduced in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg, highlighting its features as the largest self-hosted blogging and content management system. It emphasizes the ease of use, versatility, and extensive community support available for users, along with impressive statistics showcasing its popularity online. WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform to a comprehensive CMS, supported by numerous plugins and themes, making it suitable for a variety of web applications.

1. INTRODUCTION
TO
WORDPRESS
WORDPRESS
by Anjum Hashir Aziz

2. Contents
Introduction
What Wordpress offers? (Literature Review)
Benefits of Wordpress (Literature Review)
How it Works?
Core Components
Wordpress Stats (Data Analysis)
Wordpress Popularity (Data Analysis)
Conclusions

3. in non-geek speak, it's probably the
easiest and most powerful blogging and
website content management system (or
CMS) in existence today.
WordPress is an online, open source
website creation tool written in PHP. But
in non-geek speak, it's probably the
easiest and most powerful blogging and
website content management system (or
CMS) in existence today.
WordPress is an online, open source
website creation tool written in PHP. But
in non-geek speak, it's probably the
easiest and most powerful blogging and
website content management system (or
CMS) in existence today.
WordPress is an online, open source

4. introduction
Key Points About Wordpress
Started in 2003 By Matt Mullenweg
Open Source Project
Used by Fortune 500 Companies
Largest Self-Hosted Blogging and Publishing Tool In the World!
Inexpensive solution for personal use or business use
WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded over 5.5 million times
Website: http://www.wordpress.org and http://www.wordpress.com

5. What Wordpress Offers?
Free Software Download
Free Themes
Free Plugins
Free Support via forum
Free Hosting (Limitations Applied)
Mobile Compatibility

6. Benefits of Wordpress
Simple to get started
Simple to use
Simple to extend
Simple to style using themes
Simple to backup
Simple to host

7. How it Works?
Domain
Hosting
Setup Wordpress
Setup User Profile
Setup Theme (Design)
Setup Plugins
Let’s Go

8. Core Components
WORDPRESS THEME
A WordPress theme is a set of files that determine the look and
feel of your WordPress-powered website. WordPress Themes
create the general layout of the site pages and different widgets
(plugins) you can use. This means that they contain page
content such as graphics, headers, logos and footers.
WORDPRESS PLUGIN
A plug-in is a small program, or combination of programs,
that allow your website to have more features and to do more
than it could when you first installed it. There are all kinds of
free and paid plugins.

9. Wordpress Stats
Over 29,000 plugins and growing every day
Over 10,000+ Themes
98 Versions of WordPress to Date
WordPress.com Employs Only 229 People
6 New WordPress.com Posts Every Second
About 40 percent of WordPress on Self-hosted
platform (.org vs .com)

10. Wordpress Popularity
20 percent of Internet running on WordPress
24.5 percent domains running on WordPress
Over 74.6 million WordPress Sites in the World
22% of New U.S. Registered Domains Run on
WordPress
WordPress Developers Charge $50/hr
46 Million Downloads of WordPress.org
WordPress Is Most Popular With Business Websites
40 Translations of WordPress

11. you can count on your fingers and toes. 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.
What You Can Use WordPress For?
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved
to be used as full content management system and so much
more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and
themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And
tech chops.)
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved
to be used as full content management system and so much
more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and
themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And
tech chops.)
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved
to be used as full content management system and so much
more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and
themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And
tech chops.)
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved
to be used as full content management system and so much
more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and
themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And
tech chops.)

12. Conclusion
The statistics that make WordPress the world’s most popular
CMS are truly mind-numbing.
In its eleven short years of its existence, WordPress had
dominated the CMS market. From what we can tell, it isn’t going
anywhere, either.
“WordPress can do EVERYTHING! Ok.. Maybe not everything….but on the web, WordPress can create
almost any solution you can think of!”

13. THANK YOU
For your patience & interest
It was for your own benefit
It was for your own benefit
It was for your own benefit