The content writing on websites has undergone a lot of changes, with the introduction of WordPress, which is actually free and open-source software that is used widely in content management system (CMS), a special computer application for writing digital contents easily, mainly when used by many users at a time. The operation of this software is mainly based on PHP, a special server-side scripting language and also on MySQL, an open-source relational database management system.
WordPress has great features that make it easy to use and customize, such as themes that enable the user to change the look of a website without having to design HTML code. It also has built-in plugins that are used for a variety of tasks such as SEO optimization, image galleries, etc. The user can also add their own custom functions using PHP or JavaScript programming language. Here is the process of WordPress application in content management:
Application styles of WordPress in web development
- A web template system is applied while using WordPress, with the utilization of a template processor, that is specially designed software for combining multiple templates, so that one or more documents can be produced as a result of this application. This web development software of WordPress can be installed in any website, by downloading it from the internet and the size of this installation file is 20 MB.
- Various themes can be applied, after the successful installation of WordPress in any website, which help in changing the appearance and the functionality of that website that is developed with this software. Each website with this software should be based on at least one theme. Each theme is technically designed with a properly structured PHP, functional HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that is a style sheet language, used for the presentation of a document in the website. There are many free themes provided in the website, from where WordPress can be downloaded. But the users of this software are free to use their own themes, for customizing the website, provided they have enough expertise to accomplish this task.
- There are 40,501 Plugins available for installing in this software, which help the users to change the features and usefulness of any web content or blog in a website. Due to the use of these plugins in WordPress, the users can customize the website as per the special requirements of that site, resulting in the improvement of SEO ranking in the prominent search engines.
- The integrated link management facility in a WordPress website can be applied, resulting in permalink structure that is easy to find and use, for the fast navigation to other related sites, as well as for displaying the required links on other sites. The developed web content can be made further SEO friendly, by marking definite categories for different subheadings. The automatic filters are provided for setting standard formatting of the web contents and also for writing the articles of the website in suitable styles.
The users of WordPress are free to use their own programming language, like PHP and JavaScript for customizing the website further. This gives a great flexibility to the developers in changing the features of an existing website according to their requirements. For managing multiple users at a time, special user roles are provided in this software that allow different type of permission levels to be set up while using it. Thus, one can make better use of WordPress in content management system. It is very important for the webmasters and other users of this software to have full knowledge about its application process and features, so that they can make optimum use of it.
