Wordpress



=Wordpress=

What is Wordpress?
Wordpress is essentially a content management system. What does that mean? Wordpress is a useful tool that can help people to design and create websites without having to start and build from the ground up using programs such as Dreamweaver. It contains both free version with free hosting and more advanced paid version with paid hosting as well.

Being such an advanced content management system, Wordpress is used for creating websites. Many websites we view on our browsers are created using Wordpress, which is something that we rarely realize. Wordpress provides useful templates to fit beginner needs, but it also allows more advanced programmers to get in and mess with the code to fit the exact description of what they are looking for. Essentially, Wordpress is a website creator for the new and power user alike.

Who uses Wordpress?
Countless number of people and businesses use Wordpress. Since it has the ability to design several types of sites, online magazines, universities, artists, bloggers, businesses designed to sell online, gaming sites, news sites, all use Wordpress to create websites that are functional and user friendly. A few examples include: Sony Playstation, People Magazine, Wired, CNN, and Boston University.

How is Wordpress relevant to technical communication?
Wordpress can become extremely useful to those in the field of tech comm. Many people can use it as a site to house their personal portfolios to show off work they have done. Others may use it as a blogging tool to help get their work out there to a wider audience. Another main way it is relevant is tech communicators will most likely be required to work with Wordpress in the future workplace since many sites and businesses are switching over to Wordpress use because of it's innate simplicity.

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