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1. Introduction to WordPress3/5
Features & Advantages
Why WordPress wins — flexibility, ecosystem, SEO, and a giant community.
Core features
- Block editor (Gutenberg) — drag-and-drop content blocks
- Themes — change your site's look in one click
- Plugins — add features without coding
- Multi-author support — built-in roles + permissions
- REST API — power headless front-ends with React / Next.js
- Multilingual with WPML / Polylang
- SEO-ready URLs, sitemaps, schema (with Rank Math / Yoast)
Advantages
- 60,000+ free plugins, 11,000+ free themes
- Huge community → answers to almost any problem
- Backed by Automattic + a global contributor base
- Cheap to host (~₹150/mo shared hosting works)
- Migration is painless — site is just files + a DB
Disadvantages (be honest)
- Needs maintenance (updates, backups, security)
- Plugin overload kills performance
- Theme/plugin conflicts can break things
- Cheap shared hosting is slow under traffic spikes
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