WordPress is an open Source Content Management System
These days a lot of people hear WordPress.
To know more about WordPress, you need to know about CMS first.
What is a CMS?
CMS is a tool that will let you help manage your content online in a database. Which seamlessly works like an OS (Operating System). Just like a Computer or a Mobile phone. Where you can install any app as per the functionality that you need. For example – if you are in dark you just open the flashlight app that enables you to see in the dark.
Just like that, you can install any plugin or any additional element or widget in your CMS.
Suppose if you want your database to manage your store’s booking, you will need an app in your OS to handle your bookings.
So in that case we will use WordPress as our OS (Operating system).
Now You must be having a good hint of what WordPress is.
WordPress
WordPress is an Open Source CMS( Content Management System ), the world’s most used CMS. It is Owned by Automatic. It is Dominating 30% of the entire world. WordPress was first introduced as a Blogging Platform. But Automatic uses it more as a universal platform now. They have created a community around WordPress now.
Even many big companies are in developing plugins for WordPress. Now you must be thinking what is a Plugin.
Plugin
Plugin, as it says application which is created according to the functionally which you want to extend in your CMS.
The world’s most famous is Woo-commerce which you might have heard of. It enables you the functionality to sell products on your CMS (WordPress). Whether it’s Physical or digital you can sell any product on your website or web app using woo commerce
Themes.
Themes are UI skins of your CMS for the end-user side or you can say as Front end where the user interacts. Some basic themes you will get preinstalled in WordPress, you can choose any from free resources that you can find within the WordPress library or through wordpress.org. but for any advance design customization, you need to download Paid themes from codecanyon.com.
Conclusion.
Using WordPress for any small to mid-level traffic website which is 4,00,000 user’s approx. months you can use WordPress as a CMS. Or for your app’s prototype, you can build it using WordPress, and if succeeds you can then get a custom code web app from any IT consulting company.