In 2025, about 43% of world’s websites are powered by WordPress, a CMS (Content Management System) that creates and manages websites. Such massive adoptions make it a safe and reliable starting point for building a new web project. Additionally, its open-source approach offers utmost flexibility to adopters in customizing one’s solutions leveraging other people’s contributions (e.g. plugins and themes) with ease.
What is a CMS?
Free development and testing website on Pantheon.io for learning WordPress.
The Administrator’s dashboard in WordPress for basic setup.
The use of Kadence theme for user-friendly web design.
Use of the classic and block editors for content preparation and page layout.
Use of Kadence blocks for styling HTML DOM elements on the page.
Powerful plugins such as Pods for creating user-defined custom post types and fields for powerful data import, export, and management.
Use the Pods plugin to create custom post types and templates
Use of import and export plugins for data exchange with other applications.