WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to create blogs or websites. It allows users to create free blogs on WordPress.com or install WordPress software on their own domains for more customization. WordPress is very popular, powering over 22% of new websites and close to 15% of the top 1 million sites. It offers thousands of free themes and plugins to customize sites and extend functionality. Common uses of WordPress include blogs, business sites, e-commerce sites, membership sites, and more.

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2. What is WordPress?
WordPress.com — Free Blogging Platform
WordPress.com allows us to create our own free blog to start publishing our own content within a
few clicks. Just go to wordpress.com and click the get starter here button
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3. WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here
As we can see at any given moment thousands of people worldwide are publishing content on
WordPress.com around the clock. close to a million posts at the time of taking this screenshot
were created on one day.
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4. Wordpress.com Free Blog
A quick example of a blog linked to from the Homepage of WordPress.com. This person's content
is made available to eveyone searching the WordPress.com site's database under her topics of
interest. The site is hosted for free on WordPress' .com platform and users receive access to
custom functionality and template designs for making their site unique.
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5. WordPress.com Art Category
WordPress.com allows readers to find content within their area of interst through categories.
Within the "Art" category on the WordPress.com site we can see the very recent posts in the Art
category from across the network of millions of Free Wordpress.com sites. Content is eing posted
round the clock by millions of WordPress.com users, close to 40 million sites run on
WordPress.com
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6. WordPress › Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS
WordPress.org is the self hosted version of WordPress. The software can be downloaded and
installed on your own server or website hosting package. This allows us to run our own sites,
tailored to our design & functional requirements on our own servers, which means we have
complete control and ownership of our site and it's data. The software is Open Source, with a GPL
license.
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7. WordPress › Showcase
The WordPress.org Showcase provides many excellent examples of real world usage of
WordPress for a wide variety of different kinds of websites. Sites in the showcase are organised
according to some general categories.
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8. WordPress › Showcase » Tag » Design
Searching the Showcase section for the keyword "Design" brings up a list of related sites running
on WordPress.
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9. WordPress › Mobile
WordPress provides a number of solutions for accessing your site via your mobile making
blogging on the go even easier. Mobiler versions of WordPress exist to allow site users to manage
their sites from a number of mobile devices and platforms.
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10. WordPress on the Web Trends Map
WordPress is very much on the Map when it comes to fitting into the web sphere and is a major
player in shaping the online space as we know it today.
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11. The Most Popular CMS by Far
WordPress is by far the most popular CMS and outranks all other systems for usage. About 22%
of all new Websites being created currently run on WordPress and close to 15% of the top 1
million sites run on WordPress - http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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12. WordPress › Free WordPress Themes
Thousands are FREE themes are available for download from the WordPress Themes Directory -
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
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13. WordPress › Search for portfolio « Free WordPress Themes
The WordPress Theme's Directory is fully searchable to find exactly the theme to suite your usage
needs or your taste.
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14. WordPress › WordPress Plugins
Additionally thousands of FREE Plugins, or functional add-ons are available to extend the
functionality of your WordPress site - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
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15. WordPress › Search for video « WordPress Plugins
Searching is made even easier with plugin data like ratings, dates when plugins were last updated
and author links so the reliability of these plugins can be assessed before use.
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16. Site Example 1 - Web Designer Wall
A Beautiful example of a well designed Blog style website, web designer wall is the blog of Nick la,
a well known web designer & developer who writes tutorials and guides covering a range of web
design topics
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17. Site Example 2 - Clouds 365 Project
The Cloud 365 Project is an image gallery style website run on Wordpress and focuses on
providing imagery of cloudy skies. An example of an alternative non blog style usage of
WordPress.
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18. As we can see each day of the year a new cloudy image is posted instead of textual contents.
WordPress is a very viable solution for image based blogging, or photoblogging.
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19. Site Example 3 - Amala Foundation
A wide variety of NGOs use WordPress to power their websites as in the example below you can
see the design style is limited only by your imagination and your ability to bring that to life in theme
development. Custom Theme's can be developed to suite just about any style and layout you can
conceive.
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20. AMLA Foundation Page Detail
Rich page layouts can be created catering exactly for the content needs of your project or
message.
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21. Amla Foundation Page Footer
WordPress also makes connecting your site with the rest of the web really easy and provides
through built in mechanisms and additional add-ons literally thousands of social and sharing tools
to give your message feet and to engage with your audience much further than a confines of your
site.
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22. Selling your Products
WordPress is becoming way more popular as a lite ecommerce solution allowing anyone to sell
just about anything online with free or very low cost tools.
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23. Plugin Example - WiziApp turns your site into a Mobile App
Turn your site into a fully functional Mobile App which you can share or sell on the Apple Appstore.
This plugin will convert your site contents into a mbile App which can be customised and sold.
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24. Plugins Example - Event Espresso - WordPress Event Registration
and Manager Plugin
With the Event Espresso plugin you can turn your WordPress site into an advanced events
management system which can handle a wide variety of event specific functionality including
booking and payment for events online, printing of tickets, attendee management and a host of
other features.
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25. Plugins Example - BuddyPress.org Turns your site into a social
network
Turn your site into a fullyfledged social network using the Buddypress suite of tools built for
WordPress. You can create a custom social network for your organisation, your community, sports
team or whatever, with control to allow logged in users custom access to member only features
while still making general contents publically available.
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