{"id":20560,"date":"2023-05-01T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2023-05-01T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:27:50","slug":"what-is-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/what-is-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress is a so-called CMS (Content Management System) that allows you to easily create a website. You can write pages and news items, add images and publish them on the worldwide web with a few mouse clicks.<\/p>\n

Note that we are talking about the version of WordPress.org that you can install yourself on a server.
\n* We are not talking here about the rental version of wordpress.com<\/p>\n

The WordPress community<\/h2>\n

The large WordPress community, or the large number of users communicating on forums about the use and operation of WordPress is the great strength behind WordPress.
\nCommon questions and even more complicated ones are answered.<\/p>\n

The free themes & Plug-ins<\/h2>\n

The large number of free themes (the layout of the website) and plug-ins allow you to expand the WordPress website in any way you want.
\nFrom webshop to forum, from video site to corporate website…. everything is possible.<\/p>\n

WordPress through the years<\/h2>\n

WordPress was developed in 2013 and has continued to evolve, initially WordPress was used as a weblog, for blogging. Several large companies started using WordPress and after it became known that WordPress is so good to use they more and more companies started using WordPress to realize the corporate website.<\/p>\n

Interesting developments<\/h2>\n

Over the years, Automattic – the company that created WordPress – has added many interesting developments to WordPress.<\/p>\n

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  1. A CSS Customizer<\/strong>
    \nThis code editor allows you to make adjustments to the styling of your website and view them live while coding.<\/li>\n
  2. Custom Fields<\/strong>
    \nCustom Fields allow you to deploy text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns and more in posts and pages.<\/li>\n
  3. Youtube<\/strong>
    \nYou can embed a link from Youtube in a post or page, wordpress will turn it into an embedded video itself. This also works with many other platforms.<\/li>\n
  4. Theme preview <\/strong>If you want a new design, a different look using a new theme you can preview it without actually having to install the theme.
    \nYou can thus preview multiple themes without having to turn your website upside down each time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Some popular plug-ins for WordPress<\/h2>\n

    The large number of free plug-ins has made WordPress the most popular CMS system in the world. Here are some plug-ins that are widely used.<\/p>\n