A person who has just begun to study what constitutes a site content management system (SMSS), is interested in many questions. What is Wordpress, Joomla, phpBB and many other technical developments that interest a novice webmaster. Of course, all of them taken together is a complex, multifaceted and voluminous topic. Therefore, we will focus only on Wordpress. As part of the article, we will go over how this SMSS has developed, what advantages it has, what opportunities it offers - in general, this will give a brief overview.
What is Wordpress?
And how does it work? Why do many people like it? According to some polls, Wordpress can be found in almost half of webmasters. Its important advantage is that its user can quickly and without any problems, literally in a matter of minutes, create his own website, even if he has no idea what MySQL, PHP or GNU GPL is. Even having an idea of what web programming is is not necessary. When using this constructor, ready-made templates that are variants of a future site are already waiting for a person. If desired, and with a little knowledge of PHP, it will be possible to radically change the existing workpiece to your liking. Also, without programming knowledge, heading management, creating the necessary pages and records, adding pictures, tables, videos, as well as various widgets becomes available. Surely few people have met the last word, so let's move away from figuring out what Wordpress is and why it is needed, and pay attention to this useful element.
Widget
In Wordpress, this is the name of a small program that has software functionality (and maybe also a graphical interface). A feature of the widget is that it does not expand the capabilities of the platform, but works separately (although in the designer environment). Thanks to him, you can make significant changes to the design and
layout of the site. Of course, widgets cannot fully replace HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL, but what they offer is more than enough. In addition, if you study these programming languages, data structuring and markup, you need to immerse yourself in reading quite tedious for many books. And it takes time. And with widgets, this setting takes the clock in the worst case. Moreover, the level of performance will be such that everyone will consider the result to be professional work.
Who is this Sousse for?
If the thought crept in your head that this system of content management is used only by amateurs, then be aware that this is a fallacy. She is popular among professional web designers and programmers. Thanks to Wordpress, the site is filled with many necessary scripts and new styles. And professionals often just need to tweak individual elements so that they meet the desired result.
Could there be domestic localization? After all, we exclusively discuss what Wordpress is. Whether the site will be in Russian or not - this largely depends on the topic used. But even if it is English-speaking, it will not be difficult to make it understandable to our compatriots. This will help and settings SUSS, and various plugins. You must understand that this is a complete system of programs that can be customized for specific purposes. She works on the site without any problems. It continuously supports its functionality, from beginning to end. Due to this, it is called the content management system of the site.
Platform development
How did it start? The first version was created back in 2003. Wordpress was originally an offshoot of another project that Matt Mullenweng was working on. Initially, this technology was aimed at creating personal blogs. So, a person writes to himself everything he wants, readers comment - that's all. But in the future, the system acquired contacts, which was greatly facilitated by its free status. As a result, now you can create a catalog, an online store, and a blog. Moreover, free of charge is understood not as providing a domain name and hosting, but as themes, plugins, scripts and other software. Although, in truth, the first two can also be obtained on a free basis. True, as a reward hosters place their ads on your site. There may also be service restrictions and much more, which we will not concern.
Facilities
Now let's talk about what Wordpress Multisite is. Initially, it was a separate project, but now it is included in the core of the system. Multisite is an operating mode when using having files and an existing database to create networks and sites on Wordpress. At the same time, each resource has its own settings, although themes, users and plugins become common. This has several advantages:
- No need to set up multiple accounts.
- The plugin is installed only once, and use can be carried out by all resources.
- It is only necessary to update the software once, and not separately for each site.
- If there is a desire, then plugins can be activated forcibly for everyone.
- You can use one topic or create child developments for each resource separately.
- The exchange of data between various sites on the Web is optimized. It becomes much faster and easier.
In fairness, it should be said that such a regime also has its drawbacks. First of all, this refers to the significant amount of database that grows with each site. But competent construction of architecture allows you to solve many problems that arise.
Opportunities
So now we know a lot about the system. Let's talk about what we can do. Tens of thousands of themes with different designs will help us choose the site design. Installing them, as well as plug-ins, is simple - just download the selected option to the server, and SOUS will figure it out. She will unpack it, install it and make it work. The presence of ready-made scripts and widgets will significantly expand the possibilities, almost on autopilot. So hard not to use. But can this be seen in many other developments? That's right, so to understand all the features, let's go over the benefits of SMS. And we find out what we need to pay attention to.
Benefits
In addition to the above information about simplicity and convenience, we offer you to get acquainted with such strengths:
- Free of charge. For novice webmasters who want to create their own projects, this will allow you to start work and reduce your spending, which at first is important.
- Ease of use. It takes no more than 5 minutes to install the content management system itself. And the program codes are in such an understandable design that it will not be difficult to understand the technical subtleties. Moreover, the most important files are signed, and many of them are also commented. The developers worked hard and made the system so friendly that everyone can figure it out.
- Cross-platform. SUSS itself runs on the server, nothing additional (except the browser) needs to be installed on the computer. Thanks to this, control can be carried out from any specific technical means - a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet. Moreover, there is no binding to the operating system, the main thing is that it supports the browser, and there was an Internet connection.
- There are visual and text editors. Due to the fact that they have an intuitive interface, using their services is not difficult. If you have experience with Microsoft Word, then Wordpress tools will seem like a children's toy. Despite the simplicity, work with text and images can be carried out in the desired direction to get the planned result.
- The popularity of Sousse. Speaking of numbers, there are at least 60 million sites that 350 million people visit every month, and they view 3 billion pages over the same period. And that's it on Wordpress!
Conclusion
So we looked at what Wordpress is. It will not be difficult for dummies to deal with the system, it’s enough just to sit on it for several hours, and then we will already have a real expert on the use of SMS.