Learn WordPress Website Design

Learning WordPress will jumpstart your learning of web design and development.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the most powerful website builder in the world. More than 34% of the websites on the internet are built with this CMS. Back in 2003, developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created a platform for anyone, beginner or advanced to publish their content online without any hassle.

By December 2018 websites built with WordPress had over 22 billion monthly views. In 2019 This content management system, managed to win more than 60% of the websites using CMS and currently, it powers more than 75 million websites.

Most businesses are looking for a reliable and scalable website to remain in the competition. Most IT leaders of large companies have looked at other expensive solutions before finding a platform that powers more than 34% of the internet.

How Does WordPress Work?

In the older days, you had to learn a programming language to create a series of code to display a single page in a web browser. Nowadays, by installing WordPress on your web server which only takes 5 minutes, you can use its web-based editor to create web pages without knowing any programming language.

WordPress functions on three main levels:

It offers a user-friendly interface known as the WordPress Dashboard for website owners to manage their content.
It can create MySQL queries for the database.
It is expandable by using themes, plugins, and shortcodes. Thus, the website owner can add any feature he/she wants.

How Does WordPress Help My Company’s Work Flow?

If you have a company and you want different teams to have access and work on the website at the same time, Then WordPress is the perfect choice for you. It allows you to define different user roles and permissions. With different user roles, users can access different sections of the website,

WordPress is Expandable

Most WordPress users don’t have any programming knowledge. If you don’t have any designing or programming knowledge and still looking for ways to add multiple features to your website. You shouldn’t worry.

WordPress allows you to use different themes and plugins to add design and features to your website. There are thousands of free and premium themes and plugins you can choose from, and most of them are easily configured.

Themes sometimes come with their own plugins as well. For example, the Publisher theme comes with 50 plugins that essentially complete the functionalities of the theme.

WordPress comes with many default features. However, the default features aren’t enough for some businesses or personal blogs. If you are amongst those users, you can simply use plugins to add extra features to your website.

There are literally more than 50,000 plugins to choose from. By installing plugins, you can add custom functionality to the website. For Example, by installing the Yoast SEO plugin you can optimize the website and achieve high ranks in search engines.

How to Become a WordPress Developer?

Thanks to the popularity of WordPress, there are a lot of opportunities for development. With over 76 million users, there are always people looking for WordPress developers to enhance their website.

A website developer can change the way a website looks, as well as change the core functionality, admin panel and more. If you are an advanced developer, you can even change the way the user profile looks.

We have developed a WordPress course that equip our students with the right knowledge to either build their own personal/business websites or consider a career in WordPress web development.

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