{"id":37086,"date":"2022-11-08T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=37086"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:40:45","slug":"what-is-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/what-is-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress<\/span><\/a> <b>is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) available for creating, publishing and managing websites.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The open-source software is completely free and a wealth of add-ons (both free and paid-for) are available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress\u2019 flexibility makes it suitable for beginners to advanced developers. Design and manage a basic website yourself, or have your website professionally designed in WordPress and then manage small changes and updates yourself using the wysiwyg Admin interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This easy-to-use software includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple Themes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plugins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to customise your site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A built-in updater that can update your plugins and themes from within your WordPress dashboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tools for managing your files and documents<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A Widget tool to add multiple functions to\u00a0your website or blog, such as:\n<ul>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Adverts<\/li>\n<li>Social media sharing buttons<\/li>\n<li>Sliders<\/li>\n<li>Images<\/li>\n<li>Videos<\/li>\n<li>Forms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tutorials and videos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are available to guide you in using this popular CMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/how-to-install-wordpress-control-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Install WordPress<\/a> quickly and easily with the <\/span><strong>WordPress Installer<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, available in the xneelo Control Panel for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/web-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web Hosting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> packages \u2013 Basic, Standard, Advanced or Master accounts <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(WordPress requires a MySQL database). <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >WordPress<\/span><\/a> <b>is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) available for creating, publishing and managing websites.<\/b><span > The open-source software is completely free and a wealth of add-ons (both free and paid-for) are available.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >WordPress\u2019 flexibility makes it suitable for beginners to advanced developers. 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