Presentation by Giorgos Theodoridis

WordPress is a free web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app, (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Nowadays, WordPress powers more than 24% of the web, a number that rises every day. It can be downloaded for free and does not requires high knowledge of programming languages. WordPress was maybe in the beginning more for bloggers, but over the years it developed to be functional also for internet presences and mobile applications. Many great companies like Google, Sony, Facebook use WordPress to improve their web presence. Worldwide around 22% use the WordPress technology.

It needs no high knowledge of programming languages. It offers supports and pre-prepared libraries. It has many plugins and modern theme implementation Easy management of your database WordPress makes it the newbie easy to use this technology through drag & drop usage. Who wants can via coding create his own themes or improve his own site. Different types of media are accepted to use

Themes WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website and they can be installed without altering the content or health of the site. Every WordPress website requires at least one theme to be present and every theme should be designed using WordPress standards with structured PHP, valid HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS

Plugins Advanced CSS Editor is a lightweight plugin that lets you write a different CSS code for each device (desktop,tablets and mobile phones) in the right form. Using the Live Costumizer you can see the otcome in real time without need to document changes and refresh the page.

Customization of Posts Duplicate Post Re-order Post:  Post Types Order  Change publication Date Search Exclude:  Search Exclude Plugin

Mobiles Native applications exist for WebOS, Android,iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.These applications, designed by Automattic, allow a limited set of options, which include adding new blog posts and pages, commenting, moderating comments, replying to comments in addition to the ability to view the stats.

Other actualities 1.Speed up the site. 2.Adapting AdSense with Wordpress site. 3.Blocking bad links and referring as spam. 4.Integrate with social medias. 5.Responsive pages for all devices.

Other features WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine–friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes). WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or an article. WordPress blog posts can be edited in HTML, using the visual editor, or using one of a number of plugins that allow for a variety of customized editing features.

Wordpress is a vey useful tool for creating beautiful simple websites. It offers a variety of modern themes and simple costumization. There are many features that helps in creating a modern-website. Many “problems” are not Wordpress problems,but users without knowledge. In order to make advanced changes maybe some CMS are better than Wordpress because Wordpress is not focused only in one type of website. You can use Wordpress plugins,but they reduce performance in some cases!