
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that allows users to create, manage, and publish websites without needing advanced coding skills. It provides a user-friendly interface where individuals and organizations can build blogs, business sites, portfolios, and online stores. WordPress offers thousands of themes and plugins, enabling users to customize the design and add features such as contact forms, SEO tools, and e-commerce functionality. Because it is open-source and widely supported, WordPress is one of the most flexible and widely used platforms for web development today.
Features
- Simplicity – Simplicity makes it possible for you to get online and get publishing, quickly.
- Publishing Tools – WordPress makes it easy for you to manage your content. Create drafts, schedule publication, and look at your post revisions. Make your content public or private, and secure posts and pages with a password.
- User Management – Not everyone requires the same access to your website. Administrators manage the site, editors work with content, authors and contributors write that content, and subscribers have a profile that they can manage.
- Media Management – They say a picture says a thousand words, which is why it’s important for you to be able to quickly and easily upload images and media to WordPress.
- Full Standards Compliance – Every piece of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards set by the W3C. This means that your website will work in today’s browser, while maintaining forward compatibility with the next generation of browser.
- Search Engine Optimized – WordPress is optimized for search engines right out of the box.
Available To
Faculty, staff, and students
Get Started
- Getting Started with WordPress
- Beginner WordPress User
- Intermediate WordPress User
- WordPress Support Guides
- UWM Documentation and Guides
- UWM Brand & Identity
- LinkedIn Learning Library WordPress Courses
- YouTube Videos on WordPress