WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) powered by wordpress.org. It is a open-source software. That means you can download, edit and use it for free.

WordPress is written in PHP. It is the most feature-rich CMS. The main purpose of building WordPress was for running your own blog easily.

But now you can build almost any type of website using WordPress in a few minutes. Even you don’t need to have any coding skills.

First of all, we need to know why we need to use a CMS. If you want to build a static website then you can hire any developer to build it. But in the future if you want to edit, add or remove contents from it then you need to edit the code every time. If you are a nontechy then that will be so tough for you.

If you want to build the backend also, where you can edit, add or remove content by yourself. That will be expensive to make it full functional and dynamic. As well as, if you want to add a new feature in the future then that will be expensive too.

But in WordPress, you will get an inbuilt backend or control panel where you can add, edit or remove content easily. You can add a new features or functionality anytime within a few minutes. Even you don’t need to write a single line of code.

Below I am explaining a few more reasons to choose WordPress:

Wordpress is open-source software that is licensed under GPLv2. You can download, edit or use it to build almost any type of website for your clients or for personal use.

Even you will get updates of this software for free. You don’t need to pay anything to use it. A huge number of developers are collaborating to make it better day by day.

There are a lot of resources of WordPress available on the internet. If you are a developer then you can follow their documentation. They have great documentation of WordPress core in codex.wordpress.org.

For the nontechy, you can search for tutorials. There are a lot of step-by-step video tutorials available on YouTube and google. A lot of developers and companies provide resources, and video tutorials every day.

WordPress is secured. You don’t need to think about the security. If you use any renowned hosting then you don’t need to spend a single minute on security improvements.

Also using free or paid plugins you can control a lot of things. You can observe your visitors and block them if you don’t want to visit them on your site.

WordPress works better with Google and other search engines. There are a lot of plugins available to do SEO things in WordPress. Yoast SEO and RankMath is one of the best SEO plugins in WordPress. You can do everything you need to do for search engines using WordPress.

There are a lot of big brands and names using WordPress to run their website. They have a huge number of visitors and WordPress is performing very well.

Below I am sharing a few brands and names who are using WordPress:

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If you heard the name WordPress from any of your friends or from the internet so that is the WordPress software powered by the wordpress.org. You can use this software on your own server and even you can install it on your own computer. You have full control over this software.

On the other hand, WordPresss.com is a WordPress managed hosting service from a company called Automattic. They are selling hosting services and on their hosting, they are using WordPress software to build the website. WordPress.com hosting has a few limitations according to the hosting package you bought from them.

So don’t be confused. We are going to use WordPress software by wordpress.org with any of the hosting services.

Availability of resources is another reason for WordPress being popular. You can easily learn WordPress for free from the internet. And also there are a lot of paid courses available.

Below I am sharing a few websites where you can get free resources of WordPress: