WordPress is known for being a platform that will help you successfully and easily build a website. By definition, WordPress is actually a content management system (or CMS) that allows you to create your website, edit, organize, and publish it with haste and ease. Essentially, what a CMS like WordPress does is receives the content you input such as writing or graphics and does the hard work of coding and organizing it for you on the website.

Because WordPress is constantly improved and updated by volunteers all around who want to help improve the project, it is available to the public for free. The fact that WordPress helps you build functional websites for free alone is the reason why it’s so popular, especially among people who are new to website-building and need one ASAP.

Both bloggers and web designers alike are so drawn to WordPress because its system offers various themes that you can work with to customize your website. For example, a blogger would need a nice timeline-like setup for their blog posts with their featured image, title, date, and mini description like this perhaps:

While a web designer may need a portfolio visible on their site and therefore choose a theme that contains such:

Let’s not forget another big reason WordPress is very popular among web designers specifically is WordPress.org, which is basically WordPress “Premium,” many designers are willing to invest in this WordPress system instead because it means you’ll get move control over how your site looks, is organized, and your theme. It allows you to move a set forward in customization, letting you apply your own designs and placement of things, while still coding and organizing (which is the harder part) to make your life easier.

All in all, WordPress is a great resource to help you create your own functioning website without having to stress over learning any coding or HTML-nonsense that may take longer for some to learn than others. One of the best parts of using the WordPress CMS is that they make everything highly functional on your site and user-friendly, meaning if you see an issue on your site, something out of place, or something you just flat-out don’t like and want to remove from your page, you can do it yourself; you don’t need an expert to do edit those things for you. Last but not least, WordPress does a pretty good job at making responsive websites, it adapts your website to be viewed from almost any device screen: a computer, smartphone, tablet, etc. 

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