This document provides an introduction to WordPress, including: - WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that allows users to easily create and manage websites and blogs. It has become one of the most popular platforms, powering over 80 million websites. - As a CMS, WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL and allows for extensive customization through thousands of available themes and plugins. It also has a huge supportive community for assistance. - The document compares WordPress to other CMS options like Joomla and Drupal, finding that WordPress generally has more available themes and plugins while also being the easiest to install and use.

1. Welcome
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2. WordPress
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3. Introduction
 Web software which you can use to create your own
website or blog.
 Released in 2003.
 Become one of the most Popular web publishing
platform.
 Most popular blogging tool, used on the Web at more
than 80 million websites.
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4. Introduction
 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 WordPress .
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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
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6. 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 godaddy , hostgator. 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 WordPress, 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.
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7. Cont………
 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).
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8. 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.

9. 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

10. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
FREE THEMES
WordPress : 2000+
Joomla : 900+
Drupal : 1800+
FREE PLUGINS
WordPress : 27000+
Joomla : 7000+
Drupal : 24000+

11. WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
MANUAL INSTALLATION TIMES
WordPress : 5 min
Joomla : 10 min
Drupal : 10 min
EASE OF MODERATION
WordPress :
Joomla :
Drupal :

12. 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

13. 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……..
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End of the Introduction Session
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