{"id":766,"date":"2018-01-06T11:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.lagos.wordcamp.org\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-02-28T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:33:49","slug":"wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"What you should know about WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>WordPress<\/strong> has come a <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/wordpress-stats-facts\/\">long way<\/a> since it first launched back in 2003. It\u2019s now the most popular content management system and has become a dominant force online, now powering <strong>28.9% of all websites<\/strong> with a <strong>59.4% market share of all known CMS<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">WordPress gets <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codeinwp.com\/blog\/wordpress-statistics\/\">more monthly unique visitors<\/a> than Amazon, and the same as Facebook. WordPress.com (and self-hosted WordPress websites running Jetpack) gets an average <strong>22,000,000,000+ pageviews per month<\/strong>, and growing. \u2013\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/activity\/\">WordPress.com<\/a> There are <strong>1,323+ <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/topics\/wordpress\/\">meetup groups<\/a><\/strong> for WordPress all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">There are so many ways to <strong>make money from WordPress<\/strong>: as a plugin\/theme developer, hosting company,\u00a0maintenance service, SEO agency, web design freelancer, blogger and so much more. WordPress is not only used by bloggers, businesses, and publications, but also educational institutions, and even governments. According to <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/torquemag.io\/\">Torque Mag<\/a>, 25 percent of WordPress users make a full-time living off of the CMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Aside from the fact that the <strong>WordPress software<\/strong> is <strong>the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/wordpress-stats-facts\/\">most used CMS in the world<\/a><\/strong> with lots of practical, industry-agnostic applications people are compelled by the dynamic and global community of WordPress users jiving off each other to learn and grow at various <strong>WordPress events<\/strong>. <strong>WordCamps<\/strong> are attended by people ranging from blogging newbies to professional WordPress developers and consultants, and usually combine scheduled programming with unconference sessions and other activities.\u00a0More <strong>WordPress Stats<\/strong> and <strong>Facts<\/strong> can be found <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/wordpress-stats-facts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>If you are yet to purchase your ticket and book your seat for WordCamp Lagos, <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.lagos.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080\">click here to do so now!<\/span><\/a> Tickets are selling out fast.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress has come a long way since it first launched back in 2003. It\u2019s now the most popular content management system and has become a dominant force online, now powering 28.9% of all websites with a 59.4% market share of all known CMS. WordPress gets more monthly unique visitors than Amazon, and the same as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordpress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What you should know about WordPress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14945046,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191166,1],"tags":[1220668,1220924,1221277],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-team","category-uncategorized","tag-how-to-make-money-from-wordpress","tag-how-wordpress-gets-more-page-views-than-amazon-and-same-as-facebook","tag-how-wordpress-is-the-most-used-software-in-the-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/12\/WP-swags.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p95vVk-cm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14945046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagos.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}