What Types of Websites can WordPress create?

What types of websites can WordPress create?

Years ago, WordPress was primarily a blogging tool, not a more traditional website. However, this did not happen for a long time. Today, thanks to changes in the main code as well as a large ecosystem of WordPress plugins and themes, you can build any type of website with WordPress.

For example, WordPress not only feeds various business sites and blogs, but is also the most popular way to build an ecommerce store! With WordPress you can create:

• Business website
• E-commerce shop
• Blog
• purse
• Summary
• Forum
• Social media
• Membership Page

... almost anything else you can think of.
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What is the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
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We've covered the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com in more detail, but here's the short version:

WordPress.org, often referred to as self-hosted WordPress, is a free, open source WordPress software that you can install on your own web host to create a 100% custom website.
WordPress.com is a paid non-profit service operated by the WordPress.org software. It's easy to use, but you lose a lot of the flexibility of self-hosted WordPress.
When people say "WordPress" they mean self-hosted WordPress available on WordPress.org. If you really want to own your website, WordPress.org hosting is almost always the best choice.

All you have to do to get started with self-hosted WordPress is web hosting and a domain name.

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Who developed WordPress and for how long?
WordPress was created in 2003 as a standalone project that grew out of an offshoot of an earlier project called b2/cafelog.

WordPress is open source software, so it was created by a large community of contributors today. But if we have to trace the origins of WordPress back to its roots, its original development was a collaboration between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

Since then, Matt Müllenweg has largely been the face of WordPress. He is also the founder of Automattic, the company behind the non-profit WordPress.com service.

WordPress has a long history between its start as a blogging platform in 2003 and today...

Suffice it to say that WordPress has evolved and, thanks to its large staff and community, has become the most popular solution for creating all types of websites.

Who Uses WordPress?

WordPress is used by individuals, large companies, and everyone in between! We went straight to WordPress! So the website you are viewing is powered by WordPress. Many other well-known entities also use WordPress. Here are some of our favorite examples:

White House.gov
Whitehouse.gov official website powered by WordPress:

Whitehouse.gov powered by WordPress
Whitehouse.gov powered by WordPress

Microsoft
Microsoft uses WordPress to run its official blog. It also uses WordPress to run blogs for certain products like Windows and Skype:

Microsoft uses WordPress to run its official blog

rotating stone
Even famous bands love WordPress! The Rolling Stones website is fully powered by WordPress:

Rolling Stones website using WordPress
Rolling Stones website using WordPress

Why should you use WordPress?
OK, over 40.0% of all websites on the internet use WordPress, including popular ones like the White House and Microsoft.

But what about you? Why should you use WordPress?

Well, no matter what type of website you want to create, there are many reasons to use WordPress. Here are some of the biggest ones:

WordPress is free and open source
One of the greatest things about WordPress is that it is free, open source software. While you do have to pay a little for hosting, you don't have to pay just to use the WordPress software, which alternatives like Squarespace don't.