What is WordPress? Start a Blog in 2018 with this WordPress Website Tutorial
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What is WordPress? Start a Blog in 2018 with this WordPress Website Tutorial
There are lot of other platforms on which you can build your blog or a website.
Tumblr, Blogspot, WordPress, Blogger, Magento etc.
So then why WordPress? Because WordPress is also known as CMS. (Content Management System)
It is the easiest platform you can build your website on.
As off Feb 2017, 27% of the websites in the world are powered by WordPress.
Start your own blog with this ultimate guide of 2018: http://digitalpratik.com/blog/start-a-blog-make-money-online/
Other WordPress tutorials: http://digitalpratik.com/blog/what-is-wordpress/
What is WordPress? Start a Blog in 2018 with this WordPress Website Tutorial
Feel free to let me know via the comments if I have missed on anything on the history of WordPress.