What is WordPress and Why WordPress became Popular CMS?

WordPress – The most popular Word in the internet over the past decade. If you have been looking into building your own website then no doubt you have heard about Wordpress.
WordPress is free and open source platform/Content Management system written in PHP and MYSQL.

WordPress was started in 2003 by two programmers, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
When WordPress was first released in 2003, it was just a simple and straightforward blogging platform. Over the years, WordPress has evolved into a full-fledged Content Management System powering BLOGS, BUSINESS WEBSITES, PORTFOLIOS, E-COMMERCE WEBSITES, MAGAZINES etc.
Now-a-days Wordpress powers more than 26.4% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2016.
Why it is more popular-
The true form of WordPress lies in its extensibility, there are plenty of plugins and templates you can use to customize your website to exactly how you wanted.
Flexibility - It requires no programming skills to develop website and its very easy to make modifications and implement new functionalities in WordPress compared to any other CMS.
Installation time- It just require less than 5 minutes to install WordPress and doesn't confuse users with much complex options while installation.

In-stock Themes- WordPress has more free themes in stock which are light weight and more easy to make any modifications. It has reportedly more than 2500+ free themes in its library.
Plugins repository – This is key to WordPress to become more popular in the CMS market. There are wide range of extensions and plugins available for users to make the work easy without writing any code to extend any functionalities in the Website.
Users- Having these many cool features the usage of WordPress has been increased exponentially.
Wordpress is most widely used CMS tool by developers. Approximately 140 Million websites are built with Wordpress all over the globe. This is undoubtedly a huge figure.

Most Popular Websites that are using Wordpress –
TIME, INSTYLE, SONY MUSIC, BBC, BATA, MTV, PLAYSTATION, FORD, AUDI.
This shows how customizable and how powerful the WordPress truly is.
To sum up, WordPress is  a powerful web publishing platform that puts you in control.

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