From your computer your laptop, you are able to through WordPress, design and customize your website completely on your own. WordPress is an incredibly good system that makes the whole development simple and easy. The maintenance of a website is one of WordPress strongest points. In such a simple and easy way add new material to your website.
WordPress is designed with the idea of being very user-friendly. It uses a simple interface called Adminpanel. Through this panel you have access to everything in your WordPress site, like content, themes and plugins. Each theme and plugin are designed to fit into WordPress system. Plugins enables your website to get additional functionality and the ability to completely modify your website.
WordPress is different from the traditional way of making websites. The traditional way to make websites is to write code with different programming and script languages. Instead WordPress uses its own graphical interface where the user handles themes and plugins to form the website. After installing WordPress, the user can directly access the Admin interface.
Anyone can create their own themes and plugins to strengthen WordPress. An extremely large database of themes and plugins are available for everyone to download and use. Themes and plugins are made in the traditional way of creating websites with programming languages. You don’t need to know this to make websites with WordPress, but it enables you to create your own themes and plugins from scratch. It is a great possibility. Themes and plugins in WordPress follows specific designs and patterns so that it can be integrated in WordPress and developers can easily use them. If you learn the programming language PHP together with HTML you will be able to write your own plugins and themes.
To make it simple. This is WordPress,
- Themes
- Plugins
- Settings
- Content
These are also the development steps to create a website in WordPress. 1. Find a fitting theme and customize it. 2. Find additional functionality through plugins and adjust them. 3. Set any additional settings. 4. Add content to the website. Done. Very simple.
One can think of step 1. 2. And 3. As the design and functionality of the website. Step 4. Is the content, which means text and images. E.g, if you have a blog and want to add a new post, then each post is defined as content of the website.
When you make a website, you start with the design and functionality and finish with the content. The content is dynamic, especially if it is a blog. Adding content as it goes. A blog is continually updated which means the content is updated continuously.
As a WordPress developer you handle the content and design of the website the most. All design and content is configured by an administrator page called the Adminpanel. You get access to this page after the installation of WordPress. WordPress is a CMS which stands for Content Management System. This means you use an interface and edits content in priority. Programming is “plugins” in WordPress where editing content is prioritized. Plugins are written in the programming language PHP. Themes are written in PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript. There are countless plugins and themes to use. Dozens of dedicated companies develops quality plugins and themes for people to use. There is a whole established market for themes and plugins. Some are free some are cost money. Most have a free version and a pro version.
WordPress is first installed as a project and can then be modified. Everything is made through the Adminpanel. This panel is accessed by writing /wp-admin in a web browser. In the address bar after your domain name. This brings an interface with buttons and text-fields to make a website.
The design is called “themes” in WordPress. Themes can be found and downloaded inside the Adminpanel. If you want more functionality on your website you can install plugins. Additional functionality could e.g, be the ability to have a user-form, which is very common to have. Just like themes, you can search and find plugins within the Adminpanel. Both themes and plugins are found on other websites to be downloaded and then imported to your project. Often if it is a dedicated company for a theme or plugin, they will have a dedicated website where you can download it. Just simply import them using your Adminpanel. The Adminpanel (wp-admin) is the main page you work with during development and content creation for your website in WordPress.