In recent years WordPress has become by far the most popular platform for building websites, powering more than 26% of the world’s websites. Why? This presentation attempts to answer this question by providing an overview of the main features of WordPress, along with a quick demonstration of how you can create your own free website on WordPress.com. To provide context, the basic building blocks of WordPress will be defined, with examples of HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Javascript. To help you decide next steps, we’ll look at the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and will finish up with a few examples of some of the most popular WordPress themes and plugins.
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