Wordpress Design

Wordpress is one of the most popular CMS (Content Management Systems) on the web today. It is an open-source platform which excels at managing large numbers of photos, blogs, pages, and other content. Once set up, it provides a very user-friendly, non-technical interface for the client or end user, called the Dashboard.

Wordpress is built around the PHP language and a MySQL database, which allow for dynamic web sites and complex database access. A database is critical for the level of complexity now common and which users now expect, it's what allows people to sign in to a website and see personalized content in return.

PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page" but now more appropriately stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor," the critical word being Preprocessor. PHP is a server-side technology, meaning that the HTML is preprocessed on the application server, often a different server than the web server, and then served as simple HTML to the client computer.