WordPress is one of the most popular and user-friendly content management systems. Today, it has millions of users from various fields of activity. Thus, WordPress is used in almost every industry. This is not surprising.
The platform has many advantages:
It is very popular around the world, which undoubtedly inspires user confidence.
It has a free version, which attracts more and more new users every day.
Creating a website on WordPress does not require any special programming knowledge; you just need to follow the instructions, which are easy to find on the internet or on the official website.
Installing WordPress takes no more than 10 minutes on average. To get started, you need to download a set of files that make up the program, or, in other words, a distribution kit.
These WordPress scripts can be downloaded from the official WordPress.org website. After the installation procedure, you can start designing the appearance of your website/blog. To do this, the WordPress Themes section provides users with a huge selection of high-quality themes and templates.
WordPress templates allow you to create a unique design that emphasizes the style and theme of your company. The catalog of templates and plugins is regularly updated, so it will not be difficult to choose the right design.
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These are the basic steps you need to take to create your own website or blog. After that, you can fill the created site with content.
Thanks to its simplicity, the blog platform is accessible to everyone. That’s what makes it so great.
The first fact may not come as a surprise to you. WordPress has a 59.3% share of the website content management system market, while Joomla has only 6.2%, Drupal 4.9%, Magento 2.8%, and Blogger only 2.6%. The remaining content management systems account for 24.2%. As you can see, WordPress is the clear leader among CMS (content management systems).
The popularity of WordPress is not only due to its ease of use. Every day, the platform is used to publish news, videos, photos, audio, various types of products, etc. This attracts an audience and significantly increases the site’s search engine ranking. Proof of this is the fact that a Google search for “WordPress” yields 1.6 billion (!) results. Also, data for 2016 shows that WordPress 4.6 was downloaded 3.8 million times. These are the highest figures among content management systems.
As mentioned earlier, WordPress offers a wide selection of paid and free plugins and themes. The best-selling themes are: Avada, X The Theme, and Enfold.
There are also many free themes among them. To be more precise, there are 4,081 free themes. Responsive, Customizr, Zerif Lite, Vantage, and Hueman are the most popular.
To expand the functionality of your site, you have 46,291 free plugins at your disposal. The top free plugins are: Regenerate Thumbnails, Akismet, WooCommerce, Yoast Seo, and Hello Dolly.
The top three best-selling plugins are: Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, and Layerslider.
And a few more statistics. Users write more than 69.8 million new posts every month. More than 542 million words are written in WordPress blogs every day. With such diversity, it won’t be difficult to find something interesting, right?
Over the past three years, there has been a significant increase in the number of page views on WordPress.com blogs. In 2013, the number of views was 11.2 million. Three years later, this figure has doubled. As of July 2016, there were 22.2 million views.
According to the latest data, 17 million websites use WordPress as a blog or supporting resource. Among them are websites of both ordinary users and world-renowned companies.
For example, among the famous companies that work closely with WordPress is the founding company of WordPress.com, Automattic. It is engaged in the web development of various products and, according to its management, is a reliable support for WordPress. In August 2015, the companies celebrated 10 years of fruitful cooperation.