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WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blog. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components. This tutorial will teach you the basics of WordPress using which you can create websites with ease. The tutorial is divided into various sections for convenience. Each of these sections contain related topics with screenshots explaining the WordPress admin screens.

Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for those who have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and has an urge to develop websites. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in developing sites or blogs using WordPress.

Prerequisites
Before you start with this tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware about the basics of HTML and CSS. If you are not aware of these concepts, then we suggest you go through our short tutorial on HTML and CSS.

Basics - Overview

WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which allows the users to build dynamic websites and blogs. WordPress is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows updating, customizing and managing the website from its back-end CMS and components.

What is Content Management System (CMS)?
The Content Management System (CMS) is a software which stores all the data such as text, photos, music, documents, etc. and is made available on your website. It helps in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.

WordPress was initially released on 27th May, 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress was announced as open source in October 2009.

Features
User Management − It allows managing the user information such as changing the role of the users to (subscriber, contributor, author, editor or administrator), create or delete the user, change the password and user information. The main role of the user manager is Authentication.

Media Management − It is the tool for managing the media files and folder, in which you can easily upload, organize and manage the media files on your website.

Theme System − It allows modifying the site view and functionality. It includes images, stylesheet, template files and custom pages.

Extend with Plugins − Several plugins are available which provides custom functions and features according to the users need.

Search Engine Optimization − It provides several search engine optimization (SEO) tools which makes on-site SEO simple.

Multilingual − It allows translating the entire content into the language preferred by the user.

Importers − It allows importing data in the form of posts. It imports custom files, comments, post pages and tags.