CMS stands for Content Management System, with CMS we can more easily manage the content of a website, whether it’s a company profile website, blogs, online stores, forums and others. We can make our own CMS using programming languages such as PHP, HTML, CSS, javascript, there are also ready-made CMS such as wordpress, joomla, drupal, prestashop and others.
CMS actually consists of pages / pages that are created to manage the content of a website where in that page there is a process of creating new content, editing content and deleting content or the programming term is CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete).
In accordance with the title of this article “What is a WordPress CMS”, then we will discuss about the wordpress CMS, above we have discussed CMS and above it has also been explained that wordpress is one of the most popular and well-known CMS around the world, SO wordpress CMS is a platform a system created to make it easier to manage the content of a website, be it a company profile website, online store, blog, forum etc.
WordPress is free / open source software or software that can be used by everyone, both as users and developers, even though it is free does not mean that the quality of wordpress is cheap, wordpress is so powerful in its tools.
Why choose to use wordpress?
The first advantage of WordPress is in terms of ease of use, from those who are still new to the programming world to those who are experts.
The second advantage of wordpress is in terms of its huge community, so you don’t have to worry if you have difficulties in making a website with wordpress because you can ask so many wordpress forums.
The third advantage of wordpress is that there are many wordpress developers in making tools ranging from plugins and themes ranging from free to paid ones.
The current version of wordpress is version 5.8.1 of course with various additional features and a better security system than the previous version.
We recommend servers using PHP version 7.4 or above and MySQL version 5.6 OR MariaDB version 10.1 or above.
We also recommend Apache or Nginx as options for running WordPress, but neither is mandatory.
3 security issues affecting WordPress versions between 5.4 and 5.8. If you haven’t updated to 5.8, all versions of WordPress since 5.4 have also been updated to fix the following security issues:
Fixed a data exposure vulnerability in the REST API.
Improvements in XSS in the block editor.
Updated to version 4.17.21 in each branch to include upstream security fixes.
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